Lead Data Engineer

About Plato

Plato is on a mission to empower engineering and product teams to unlock their full potential. Using our proprietary Talent Growth Platform, we connect engineering and product professionals with industry experts for personalized talent coaching, powerful 1-1 mentorship sessions with our incredibly mentor community, and networking opportunities that drive personal and professional growth.

 

We're backed by a group of impressive advisors and investors including SaaStr, Y Combinator, the Slack Fund, S28 Capital, Eric Yuan (Zoom), Mathilde Collin (Front), Andrew Miklas (PagerDuty), and many more!

 

About the Lead Data Engineer Role

• In this role, you'll have the opportunity to join us as an early member of the Data Engineering team. You'll be setting direction, choosing tooling and designing the framework Plato will build on. This is a hands-on role to start but you will be building a team that will be responsible for driving data priorities forward and making a large-scale impact across Plato

What You’ll Do:

• Work independently to drive forward Plato's data priorities as the founding member of the company's data team (within the engineering team)

• Advise and select tooling for our ETL and reverse ETL platforms. Design, develop and maintain ETL platforms for various business use cases which are fault-tolerant, highly distributed, and robust.

• Define and execute best practices for no-code data exploration within PlatoWork on structured, semi-structured data to put company data to business use.

• Analyze large sets of structured and semi-structured data for business analytics and design tooling for non-engineers.

• Work with technical and non-technical team members to advise on data.

• Integrate new sources of data required by Plato while ensuring best practices are met.

• Fully own and manage the data lake and all of the data and structure within it

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years experience in handling data pipelines, data warehouses and data lakes.

• You understand large data sets and their application to business.

• You're comfortable as the data expert at a company and explaining the business significance throughout the schema.

• You have the ability to ingest large amounts of SQL and NoSQL data and ensure that the data is beautifully structured and formatted in the data warehouse in such a way that is consistent and easy to utilize and leverage and understand.

• You have experience as a team-lead, setting strategy and mentoring others.

• You take large and complex projects and create clear prioritization and estimations around each task.

• You have experience with Airbyte, Segment or similar tools

• You enjoy working cross-functionally to answer questions and adviseYou're excited about building a scrappy, fast-moving tech startup!

 

Why Choose Plato

At Plato, you’ll be given the opportunity to contribute to something truly meaningful that positively impacts thousands of people around the world. Aligning with our mission, we believe that by investing in our team members’ personal and professional development, we can unlock Plato’s full potential and build a thriving work environment for the greater tech community. Even a 10% improvement here will lead to a ripple effect that will benefit our community. 

 

We spend nearly all of our waking lives at work, let’s make it better! Here are some of the ways we do that at Plato:

• Work from anywhere: On our fully-remote team, you can work from anywhere in the world as long as you have 3-4 hours of PT overlap for non-customer facing roles and 5 hours PT overlap for customer-facing roles. 

• Unlimited responsible time off: Take time away to do what you love and recharge with unlimited responsible time off. 

• Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement: Grow within your role or try something new with opportunities for advancement within Plato.

• Comprehensive benefits package: Medical, dental, and vision coverage to keep you happy and healthy. 

• In-person team building activities: We bring our team members together for regular in-person events in awesome locations like the Metaverse, France, Mexico, New Orleans, California, and Spain to name a few! 

• Work with amazing companies: Hundreds of top technology companies have chosen Plato to strengthen their teams including DocuSign, Box, Segment, Rakuten, SurveyMonkey, and Betterment. 

• A diverse team from around the world: Work and learn from a group of diverse team members from around the world including the United States, Canada, France, Spain, South Africa, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, India, Brazil, and more. 

 

Plato is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality, disability, protected veteran status, gender identify, or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. 

Learn more about your equal employment opportunity (EEO) rights as an applicant here.

Plato is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please provide us with additional information on the nature of your request.