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Responsibilities
- Own consistency across distributed systems that maintain separate copies of data, including ingestion, retries, reordering, partial failure, and routing.
- Lead canonical schema design and evolution, including migrations, versioning, and effective-dated reference data.
- Define system architecture, systems of record, ownership boundaries, replication strategy, and access control.
- Design validation, permissions, conflict handling, and audit history for concurrent automated and human writes.
- Set data modeling standards and serve as the engineer consulted on changes to shared entities.
- Translate domain-expert needs into data platform capabilities and explain technical tradeoffs for decision-making.
- Establish data standards or architectural practices where they do not yet exist.
- Use AI coding tools heavily while applying judgment about when generated output requires review.
Requirements
- Accountability for a shared data model on which multiple teams depend, including aligning definitions, encoding them in schemas, and maintaining consistency across systems.
- Depth in asynchronous and event-driven service design, including idempotency, concurrency control, and consistency-focused integration patterns.
- Advanced data modeling and schema design experience involving temporal data and audit requirements.
- Sound judgment in making technical-debt tradeoffs and knowing where not to compromise.
- Demonstrated impact on team capability through durable standards and specific examples of engineer growth.
- Strong partnership with non-technical, scientific, or technical domain experts and ability to translate their vocabulary into a data model.
- Hands-on Python experience across the stack or close equivalents, including Postgres, BigQuery, GCS, containerized services, and scheduled jobs on Cloud Run.
- Experience establishing data standards or architectural practices in organizations without them is preferred.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision coverage may be available for full-time employees.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match may be available for full-time employees.
- Flexible paid time off and company holidays may be available for full-time employees.
- Equity or incentive compensation may be available for eligible roles.
- The role is based within Osmo’s offices in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and Somerville, Massachusetts; no remote or hybrid arrangement is specified.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Osmo
We turn the science of scent into a platform for creativity. World Economic Forum 2025 Technology Pioneer. "Most Innovative Company in Applied AI for 2025" (Fast Company).