Build and lead a focused team designed for high ownership and fast architectural decision-making, with opportunity to expand over time.
Own Onebrief’s data model, schema, and evolution strategy from first principles
Lead large-scale architectural change, setting standards for how data is structured, versioned, and governed
Partner closely with product, platform & infrastructure teams as an application architecture leader.
Drive execution of foundational roadmap initiatives tied to long-term platform success.
Develop Principle, Staff, and Senior engineers, creating clarity and autonomy without becoming a bottleneck
You won’t be writing production code day to day, but this is a hands-on leadership role. You’ll be making decisions impacting system design, application architecture and technical tradeoffs.

Requirements

10+ years total engineering experience (backend, data, or full-stack)
4+ years directly managing software/data engineering teams
Proven experience designing and scaling data-intensive systems for SaaS or platform products
Experience evolving data models and APIs in production systems with real customers and partners
Demonstrated ability to set and communicate a technical vision for a team or platform area
Strong people leader with experience hiring, mentoring, and growing senior, staff and principle engineers
Track record of navigating complex tradeoffs while maintaining team health and delivery
Comfortable collaborating with senior stakeholders and influencing across organizational boundaries
Deep understanding of data modeling, schema evolution, and event-driven architectures
Experience with distributed systems and data platforms (e.g., PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, NoSQL, graph databases)
Familiarity with API design, contract versioning, and developer-facing data platforms
Cloud-native experience (AWS preferred)
U.S. Citizenship required, with the ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance (not required day 1).

Benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

data modelingschema evolutionevent-driven architecturesAPI designcontract versioningdistributed systemsdata platformsSaaSscaling data-intensive systemstechnical vision

Soft Skills

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Certifications

U.S. CitizenshipTS/SCI clearance