Lead Data Engineer
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Why this role / Why now
Vori is building the operating system for grocery. Data is at the core: item catalogs invoices movements pricing promotions loyalty and payments all flow through our platform.
We have Forward Deployed Engineers with strong data engineering backgrounds who build integrations and pipelines to onboard customers fast. What we need now is a Lead Data Engineer to own the ETL strategy and data platform end-to-endsetting standards scaling our orchestration and reliability and making data a durable competitive advantage.
This is a hands-on leadership role. Youll architect and build but youll also set direction create the playbooks and level up the team around correctness observability and speed.
What youll do
Lead the design and evolution of our data platform and ETL/ELT
Own our orchestration layer: asset design partitioning strategies sensors/schedules backfills/replays retries and operational best practices.
Own pipelines that ingest data from real customer systems (CSV/EDI/API/SFTP PDFs/OCR).
Own data checks and monitoring (freshness duplicates drift broken joins).
Define core data models and metric definitions with Product/Engineering/Ops.
Improve performance and cost in the warehouse.
Set engineering standards and mentor the engineers doing data work.
Help hire and grow the data engineering function over time.
What were looking for
Must-haves
Expertise in data engineering / analytics engineering / data platform roles (or equivalent depth).
Proven experience designing and scaling data platforms and ETL/ELT systems in production.
Experience with unstructured ingestion (OCR pipelines document parsing)
Excellent SQL and strong fundamentals in data modeling (facts/dims grains SCD patterns avoiding double counts).
Real operational experience: idempotency backfills schema evolution observability and incident response for data.
Startup mindset: you can move fast prioritize ruthlessly and build leverage with limited resources.
Analytical sharp edges we want
Strong analytical mind with comfort in probability and statistics (sampling anomaly detection false positives/negatives).
You reason clearly about uncertainty and tradeoffs and you can explain them simply.
Nice-to-haves
CDC/streaming experience event-driven architectures.
Experience building semantic layers / metrics governance.
GCP BigQuery (or equivalent) experience.
How youll work with the team
Youll partner closely with:
Forward Deployed Engineers who build customer integrations and ingestion
Operations and onboarding teams who live the messy reality
Product Core Engineering teams who build platform capabilities and features
Youll be the person who makes data boringly reliable while still shipping fast.
Expectations (Vori pace)
You will be stretched and challenged with large scope and fast-paced deadlines. This is not a keep the lights on data rolethis is building the data foundation for a company transforming a $1T industry.
Vori isnt a simple 95 job. Were building a Seal Team 6 of individuals who work hard long and smart to deliver exceptional results with limited resources. If we win we transform the most fundamental industry on earthfood. Are you in
Why Vori
Mission-driven team building tech that helps local businesses thrive
Backed by top investors and advisors from Stripe Uber Palantir and Toast
Real revenue real growth and a massive market opportunity
A chance to shape not just marketingbut the companys future
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Apache Hive
- S3
- Hadoop
- Redshift
- Spark
- AWS
- Apache Pig
- NoSQL
- Big Data
- Data Warehouse
- Kafka
- Scala
About Company
Discover Vori's innovative solutions to enhance grocery store efficiency and boost profitability. Transform your retail experience with cutting-edge technology.
