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BraintrustBraintrustSan Francisco, CA

Data Engineer

Hands-on Data Engineer building the core data layer for a fast-growing AI observability startup. Own data models, pipelines, and trusted metrics across product usage, revenue, and GTM systems while partnering with Sales, RevOps, Marketing, and Finance.

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On-site10+ YOEData Engineering

About the role

What You Will Do

  • Build and own the core data models that connect product usage, accounts, customers, revenue, pipeline, billing, and customer health.
  • Create trusted sources of truth for the metrics Braintrust uses to run the business, including activation, usage, retention, expansion, pipeline, ARR, and usage-based revenue.
  • Build pipelines across product telemetry, CRM, billing, customer success, marketing, support, finance, and AI-powered internal systems.
  • Partner with Engineering and Product to improve the quality, consistency, and usability of product data.
  • Partner with Sales, RevOps, Marketing, and Finance to turn messy operational questions into durable data models and workflows.
  • Build dashboards, datasets, and self-serve reporting that help teams answer common questions without relying on one-off analysis.
  • Use AI to speed up your own work and identify where agents can reduce manual reporting, enrichment, QA, routing, research, and operational follow-up.
  • Help design the data layer for future AI-native business operations workflows, including clean context, structured inputs, feedback loops, and evaluation of outputs.
  • Improve data quality through testing, monitoring, documentation, lineage, and clear ownership.
  • Support business planning and operating cadence by making sure leadership has accurate visibility into customer usage, GTM performance, and revenue health.
  • Make pragmatic tradeoffs between foundational architecture and urgent business questions.

About You

  • 10+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, data architecture, or business systems data roles.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work across technical and non-technical teams.
  • Strong experience building data systems in developer tools, infrastructure, AI, or another technical environment.
  • Deep experience with SQL, data modeling, pipelines, orchestration, transformation, and production-grade code.
  • Experience working across product telemetry, CRM, billing, customer health, marketing, support, finance, or other operational systems.
  • Strong understanding of how GTM teams operate, especially Sales, RevOps, Marketing, and Finance.
  • Deep curiosity about AI and a strong point of view on how it will change data engineering, analytics, and business operations.
  • Hands-on experience using AI tools in your own work to write code, analyze data, automate workflows, improve documentation, or accelerate operational tasks.
  • Comfortable designing systems where humans and agents work together, with the right data, context, guardrails, and feedback loops.
  • Comfortable operating as the only data hire in a startup environment, balancing foundational architecture with urgent business needs.

Bonus Points

  • Worked at a high-growth startup where the data function was still being built.
  • Experience with enterprise and self-serve revenue motions.
  • Experience with usage-based pricing, consumption models, product-led growth, or sales-assisted funnels.
  • Built customer health, activation, retention, expansion, forecasting, or revenue intelligence systems.
  • Supported enterprise sales motions, including account scoring, pipeline analytics, territory planning, renewal workflows, or expansion reporting.
  • Built or used agents for internal operations, data QA, customer research, enrichment, reporting, or workflow automation.
  • Experience in AI, developer tools, infrastructure, observability, or data platform companies.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages
  • Flexible time off
  • Competitive salary and equity
  • AI Stipend

Skills

SQLData ModelingData PipelinesOrchestrationData TransformationProduct TelemetryCRMBilling SystemsCustomer Health DataMarketing AnalyticsFinance DataSupport SystemsDashboardingSelf-Serve ReportingAI Tools
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