Staff Data Engineer, Rill Data
Business intelligence dashboards
Open for applications
Business intelligence dashboards
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To radically simplify how people transform and explore data—at any scale.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has strong SQL fluency, experience with orchestration frameworks (e.g., Kestra, dbt, SQLGlot), familiarity with data lake table formats (e.g., Iceberg, Parquet), and an understanding of cloud databases (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery)
- Most importantly, you should have a passion for solving real-world data engineering challenges at scale
- Fluency in SQL and competency in Python
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline or equivalent industry experience
- 3+ years of experience in a data engineering or related role
- Familiarity with major cloud environments (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
What the job involves
- Rill is looking for a Staff Data Engineer to join our Field Engineering team
- In this role, you will work closely with enterprise customers to design and optimize high-performance data pipelines powered by DuckDB and ClickHouse
- You will also collaborate with our platform engineering team to evolve our incremental ingestion architectures and support proof-of-concept sales engagements
- Collaborate with enterprise customers to optimize data models for performance and cost efficiency
- Work with the platform engineering team to enhance and refine our incremental ingestion architectures
- Partner with account executives and solution architects to rapidly prototype solutions for proof-of-concept sales engagements
Our take
Though it’s crucial for enterprises to be able to quickly view business performance metrics, the creators of Rill maintain that the traditional Business Intelligence (BI) stack isn’t fit for purpose.
They might be onto something too. Two of the major drawbacks with most dashboards is that they usually sit on top of an external database, and data analysts often have to design the dashboard interface themselves. Rill takes care of both problems by using its own data engine, and offering a simple, consistent dashboard design.
Rill’s founding team previously co-founded Metamarkets, an SaaS analytics platform for digital media marketplaces, which was acquired for just under $100 million by Snapchat parent company Snap in 2017. While at Metamarkets they also created the well known open source database Apache Druid, which actually powers Rill.
Having launched in 2020, Rill has built up a solid customer base which includes the likes of Comcast, Triton, and Cloudera. It’s also received investment led by True Ventures, which it intends to use to fund a new open source product to simplify the data-to-dashboard process.
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Insights
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2022
$12m
SEED
Total funding: $12m
Company benefits
- Hybrid workforce - 2 days a week optional (Tu/Th) at an office space in SF, with remote capabilities for all employees.
- Medical, Dental and Vision coverage
- 401K
- Flex PTO
- 12 Weeks of New Child Bonding leave for delivering and non-delivering parents
- Equity
Company HQ
San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Michael E. Driscoll
(CEO & Co-Founder)Is a Founding Partner of The Data Collective, a VC fund for big data startups. Co-founded and was CEO of ad tech company Metamarkets (acquired by Snap Inc in 2017). Founded predictive analytics software firm Dataspora, and was also a Founder and Board Member at online apparel retailer CustomInk.com.
Nishant Bangarwa
(Head of Engineering & Co-Founder)Worked for Metamarkets as a Software Engineer before becoming a Software Consultant for Hortonworks, then CloudEra. Has been a key figure in the Apache Druid project since 2013.
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