2 months ago
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
Osmo builds digital olfaction technology that gives computers a sense of smell, combining AI models with sensor hardware to detect, predict, and describe odors for product development and quality control. It sells software and data products and partners on devices for fragrance formulation, manufacturing QA, security, and medical research uses. The company is privately held and was recognized as a 2025 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer.