Data Engineer
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A Data Engineer who owns and scales data platforms, maintaining and optimizing pipelines, designing ingestion processes, and supporting data and ML workflows.
About this role
Profound is on a mission to help companies understand and control their AI presence. We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to own and scale our data platform. You will maintain and optimize our pipelines, design new ingestion processes, and support the data needs of our product, data science, and go-to-market teams.
This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working with modern data tooling, improving performance and reliability, and building the foundation for machine learning-powered features.
What you’ll do
Maintain and improve data pipelines to keep data flowing reliably from ingestion to delivery
Optimize performance and costs across Snowflake, Clickhouse, AWS, dbt, and Dagster
Own data quality by implementing monitoring, alerting, and validation
Manage and extend infrastructure, including orchestration and CI or CD for data workflows
Support MLOps as machine learning models are developed and productionized
Be on call for critical pipelines and respond quickly to issues
Collaborate with data scientists, product managers, and engineers to launch new data products
Who you are
Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining production data pipelines
Proficiency in Python and SQL
Hands-on experience with dbt, orchestration frameworks such as Dagster, Airflow, or Prefect, and AWS
Familiarity with Snowflake, Clickhouse, or other modern data warehouses
Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive mindset
Experience with or interest in MLOps and supporting machine learning workflows in production
Strong sense of ownership and accountability for data quality and reliability
Motivated by access to rare and interesting AI data based on real human interactions with large language models
Excited by the opportunity to own and shape Profound’s data platform at an early stage
Interested in working on meaningful problems at the intersection of AI and marketing
Comfortable in a fast-moving culture with autonomy, trust, and room to grow
Drawn to competitive compensation and meaningful equity
Location
This is an on-site role based in our Union Square, NYC office, designed for builders who thrive on speed, iteration, and meaningful impact.
For this role, the expected base salary range is $140,000 to $260,000. Comp may vary by location. Profound’s total compensation package is designed to be competitive and includes base salary, equity, and a full range of benefits and perks. Final compensation will depend on factors such as your skills, experience, qualifications, and location, and will be determined during the interview process. Our recruiting team will share more details about the full compensation package and benefits as you move through hiring.
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