Fable

Software Engineer – Data Infrastructure

Fable

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $160,000 - $225,000 per year

About the role

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and infrastructure
  • Develop batch and streaming systems for ingesting and processing large-scale data
  • Own core components of the data platform (warehouse, lake, orchestration, tooling)
  • Implement data modeling, transformation, and versioning frameworks
  • Ensure data quality, observability, and reliability across pipelines
  • Optimize systems for performance, cost, and scalability
  • Build tooling to support reproducible datasets and experimentation
  • Partner with data scientists and engineers to productionize ML and analytics workflows
  • Contribute to secure and compliant data infrastructure in cloud environments

Requirements

  • 3–7+ years of experience in data infrastructure, infrastructure, or platform engineering
  • Strong understanding of real-time and batch data processing systems, including stream processing, messaging architectures, and large-scale data workflows (Spark, Kafka, etc.)
  • Experience with modern data tooling (dbt, Airflow, etc.)
  • Strong understanding of data modeling, ETL/ELT, reverse ETL, and orchestration
  • Experience designing for scalability, reliability, and observability
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP) and storage systems
  • Ability to operate in a fast-moving startup environment with high ownership
  • Familiarity with ML infrastructure or feature stores is a nice-to-have
  • Experience with data versioning, lineage, or reproducibility systems is a nice-to-have
  • Background in security, compliance, or high-sensitivity data domains is a nice-to-have
  • Previous experience at an early-stage startup is a nice-to-have
Benefits
  • Competitive salary + equity
  • Health, dental, vision coverage
  • Flexible PTO
  • Opportunity to join at an early stage and shape the company’s foundation
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
data pipelinesdata infrastructurebatch processingstream processingdata modelingETLELTorchestrationdata versioningdata transformation
Soft Skills
ownershipadaptability