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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.

San Francisco, CANew York, NYData EngineeringOnsite10+ YOE

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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