Staff Data Engineer
Winston Artory Group
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • Florida • New York • United States
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About the role
- Build the data team from scratch —define the hiring roadmap, recruit and onboard your first 2–3 data engineers, and establish the team’s culture, standards, and ways of working
- Own the entire data platform architecture from day one—make the critical decisions on storage layers, processing frameworks, orchestration, and data modeling patterns
- Define technical standards and best practices for data quality, testing, documentation, lineage, and governance
- Lead system design for complex problems involving large-scale ingestion, entity resolution, LLM-powered data extraction, and real-time analytics
- Evaluate and adopt new technologies that improve data velocity, quality, reliability, or capabilities
- Establish data governance frameworks including versioning, reproducibility, validation, and compliance
- Design and operate scalable data ingestion and web scraping systems, including best practices around retries, proxies, rate limiting, and anti-bot strategies
- Build batch and real-time pipelines to normalize, enrich, deduplicate, and version data across structured and unstructured sources
- Architect systems to support LLM- and ML-based document parsing, OCR, entity extraction, and classification at scale
- Own the data storage and processing stack, including PostgreSQL, data lakes, data warehouses, and vector databases
- Operationalize AI/ML workflows by preparing clean training and inference datasets with robust lineage, validation, and error handling
- Design and maintain data models that serve backend APIs, valuation services, analytics dashboards, and public indices
- Contribute to infrastructure tooling, including CI/CD, IaC (Terraform), data observability, and cost management
- Co-own data platform vision with Head of Engineering: collaborate daily on architecture, technical roadmap, and engineering standards
- Partner with backend engineers to define API contracts, data serving patterns, and integration points between pipelines and application services
- Collaborate with product and domain experts to translate business requirements into reliable, well-modeled datasets
- Work with company leadership (Head of Engineering, CPO, President) on data strategy, hiring, and long-term platform vision
- Communicate technical decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders
Requirements
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent
- 7+ years of data engineering experience with at least 2+ years in a technical lead, staff, or principal role at a high-growth startup or product company
- Expert in Python and SQL, with deep understanding of performance, data modeling, and processing patterns
- Strong database expertise (PostgreSQL or similar) including query optimization, schema design, indexing, and partitioning strategies
- Deep experience with pipeline orchestration tools like Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or Temporal
- Hands-on experience designing and maintaining web scraping systems at scale, including retries, proxies, and anti-bot strategies
- Production experience integrating structured and unstructured sources, with a track record of resolving messy, real-world data challenges
- Hands-on experience with LLM/AI integration in data workflows —you’ve built pipelines using OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source models for document understanding, NLP, entity extraction, or classification
- Deep knowledge of data architecture patterns including ETL vs. ELT, data lakes vs. warehouses, batch vs. streaming, and schema evolution
- Production experience with AWS (or GCP/Azure) including compute, storage, networking, and managed data services
- Strong DevOps fundamentals: Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, and data observability/monitoring
Benefits
- A Welcoming Team
- Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick days, and holidays
- Paid parental leave (maternity, paternity, adoption, leave)
- Paid volunteer days to encourage community involvement
- Collaborative, innovative, and inclusive company culture
- Employee recognition and appreciation programs
- Team-building activities and social events
- Transparent communication and feedback channels
- Competitive salary based on experience and skills
- Discretionary performance-based bonuses
- Equity option grants of company shares, offering alignment with company success
- Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, and vision) with employees covered 100%
- On-site in our NY HQ fitness center and sauna
- Generous leave policies, including bereavement and reproductive loss leave
- Opportunities for continuous learning and training
- Mentorship programs and leadership development initiatives
- 401(k)
- Life insurance and disability coverage
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonSQLdata modelingpipeline orchestrationweb scrapingdata architectureETLELTdata lakesdata warehouses
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingtechnical decision-making
Certifications
B.S. in Computer Science