DataHub

Staff, Backend Engineer - Catalog

DataHub
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6 months ago
Palo Alto, CA, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$225k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead development of DataHub’s Platform framework, which connects diverse data systems and powers metadata collection
  • Build scalable and fault-tolerant ingestion systems for enterprise-scale metadata
  • Design clean APIs for the connector ecosystem
  • Build event-driven architectures for real-time metadata processing
  • Develop schema mapping between diverse systems and DataHub’s unified model
  • Build versioning systems for AI assets including training data, model weights, and embeddings
  • Design and scale distributed systems, indexing, storage, and data architectures for online services
  • Set up monitoring and alerting for production services

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building production-grade distributed systems
  • Advanced Python and API design expertise
  • Experience with high-scale data processing or integration frameworks
  • Strong systems knowledge and distributed architecture experience
  • Proven ability to solve complex technical challenges
  • Experience building and maintaining online applications serving live traffic at 100+ QPS
  • Experience setting up monitoring and alerting for services
  • Experience designing indexing, storage, and data architectures for large-scale online services
  • Experience designing and scaling distributed systems
  • Hands-on experience developing with LLMs and applying scalable LLM development best practices
  • Very strong experience with at least one of Java, Scala, Kotlin, C#, or Go is strongly preferred
  • Experience with Python, TypeScript, or Node.js is a plus
  • Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker
  • Experience with DataHub or similar metadata/ETL frameworks such as Airflow, Airbyte, or dbt is a bonus
  • Open-source contributions are a bonus
  • Experience building services that call LLMs to serve live traffic is a bonus
  • Experience fine-tuning LLM-powered applications exposed to end users is a bonus
  • Early-stage startup experience is a bonus

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement in the Bay Area with 3 days per week in the Palo Alto office
  • Equity for every team member
  • Monthly coworking stipend and location flexibility
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage with 99% of employee premiums and 65% of dependent premiums covered
  • Flexible Spending Accounts and Dependent Care FSAs
  • Carrot Fertility benefits and family-forming support for all U.S. employees
  • Unlimited PTO and sick leave

Tech Stack

Categories

BackendData Engineering
DataHub

About DataHub

51-200 employees

DataHub builds an open-core metadata platform and DataHub Cloud, a managed SaaS for data cataloging, lineage, governance, and observability used by data and AI teams. The company commercializes the open-source DataHub project; customers include Apple, Netflix, Visa, and CVS Health. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Palo Alto, it is privately held and backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, LinkedIn, and 8VC.

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