DIRECTOR, DATA PLATFORM ENGINEERING

Responsibilities:

Grow the team by recruiting, interviewing, and hiring new team members
Leading architecture development, execution and leaning into cloud – public, private and hybrid environments
Develop a vision and strategy for the product portfolio and management execution with regards to data acquisition, engineering, and governance, database tuning, automated database management, sharding, etc
Building tools, platforms and database integrations to turn a low-level backend data platform into a user-facing hosted cloud solution
Scaling up from proof of concept to “cluster scale” (and eventually hundreds of clusters with hundreds of terabytes each), in terms of both infrastructure/architecture and problem structure
Codifying best practices for future reuse in the form of accessible, reusable patterns, templates, and code bases to facilitate meta data capturing and management
Managing a team of software engineers writing new code to build a bigger, better, faster, more optimized HTAP database (using Apache Spark, Apache Arrow and a wealth of other open source data tools)
Interacting with exec team and senior engineering leadership to define, prioritize, and ensure smooth deployments with other operational components
Highly engaged with industry trends within analytics domain from a data acquisition processing, engineering, management perspective
Understand how data and analytics use cases across Web3 and major blockchains can be optimized through cluster-compute of SQL at extreme scale, on a global decentralized p2p network
Develop the future leaders of Space and Time by providing continuous mentorship, coaching, and growth opportunities.
Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical/agile decision-making

Skills & Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field. Masters or PhD a plus.
8+ years experience engineering software and data platforms / enterprise-scale data warehouses, preferably with knowledge of open source Apache stack (especially Apache Spark, Apache Arrow, and others)
3+ years experience leading/growing high-performance software eng teams
A track record of recruiting and leading technical teams in a demanding talent market
Rock solid engineering fundamentals; query planning, optimizing and distributed data warehouse systems experience is preferred but not required
Knowledge of blockchain indexing, web3 compute paradigms, Proofs and consensus mechanisms… is a strong plus but not required
Experience with rapid development cycles in a web-based environment
Strong scripting and test automation knowledge
Passionate about Web3, blockchain, decentralization, and a base understanding of how data/analytics plays into this
Ability to engage senior business leaders and translate between the needs of the business and the demands of / capacities of technology
If remote, willingness to let us fly you into Southern California to meet with the leadership team up to once a month (to connect in-person for a few days)