Staff Data Engineer, Peerspace
$170-185k
Marketplace for hourly venue rentals
Be an early applicant
Marketplace for hourly venue rentals
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-185k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To bring people together, starting with making it easy to find and book the perfect places to meet, create, and celebrate.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 8-12+ years in data engineering or software engineering, with significant experience in technical leadership and architectural design for data-intensive systems
- Authoritative expertise in designing and scaling large-scale data platforms on the cloud (GCP/BigQuery preferred)
- Mastery of data modeling and transformation frameworks (e.g., DBT), with a focus on creating systems that are broadly usable and maintainable by many teams
- Deep architectural knowledge of data collection, event streaming (e.g., Segment), and ETL/ELT patterns at scale
- Experience evaluating, selecting, and integrating new data technologies to solve major business and technical challenges
- Technical Leadership & Influence: Demonstrated ability to drive technical decisions across multiple teams, build consensus, and lead large-scale initiatives without direct authority
- Collaboration: A natural ability to partner with senior leaders in Product, Engineering, and Analytics to translate business needs into a long-term technical strategy
- Impact: A portfolio of work that demonstrates your ability to solve ambiguous, complex problems that enable entire teams or product areas. You have a reputation for improving engineering velocity and quality
- Strategic Mindset: An ability to think beyond immediate requirements to build foundational systems that will support the company's long-term goals and future data products
What the job involves
- As a Staff Data Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader and a key enabling function across the entire Engineering organization.
- You will be responsible for shaping the future of Peerspace's data platform, ensuring its scalability, reliability, and ability to meet the complex demands of a growing business.
- Beyond individual projects, you will focus on setting technical direction, establishing best practices, and mentoring engineers on both the data team and other product teams. Your role is to be a force multiplier, improving the data literacy and technical capabilities of the organization as a whole through architectural leadership and cross-functional influence
- Platform Architecture: Architecting and evolving our core data infrastructure (BigQuery, DBT, Segment) to ensure it is robust, scalable, and serves as a reliable foundation for all data consumers
- Setting Standards: Defining and evangelizing data engineering best practices, patterns, and tooling for use across the entire Peerspace engineering organization
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Partnering with other engineering teams to design and implement services that produce clean, well-structured, and reliable data from the source
- Solving Hard Problems: Tackling the most complex technical challenges within our data ecosystem, such as platform performance bottlenecks, data governance frameworks, or cost optimization strategies
- Mentorship & Evangelism: Acting as a senior mentor and technical resource for engineers across the company, elevating the organization's collective data expertise through workshops, design documents, and 1:1 guidance
Our take
The growth rate of event and party space rentals is growing exponentially along with the everlasting need for exciting locations for film & TV productions. Peerspace is a marketplace for users to explore venues for both meeting and production needs. Likened to the Airbnb for hourly renting venues, the company has had around 3 million people bring their visions to life via Peerspace locations around the globe since founding in 2014.
Growing rapidly from the get go, Peerspace made its mission to find interesting spaces to market via it's site to encourage traffic from a certain demographic of creatives. The company’s 2023 rebrand has aligned the aesthetic of the company with its users. Fashion shoots, music videos and film shoots among other events like birthday parties are some of the exciting happenings inside the venues that Peerspace host on its site.
The company now stands as a leader in its market offering subscriptions like PeerspacePro which connects its agency partners to provide production crews with exclusive rentals and scouting support. The company’s customer base of Disney , Netflix and Vogue are just a few of the household names to use the service. We’re excited to see how the company continues to sift out the most exciting locations around the world and scale its endeavours.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2018
$16m
SERIES B
May 2017
$11m
SERIES A
Total funding: $45m
Company benefits
- 100% employee coverage of medical, dental and vision insurance
- $500 annual professional development allowance
- Discount on all Peerspace bookings
- Laptop, high res display, and stipend to setup home office
- Monthly cell phone and internet credit
- Coworking membership if needed (in lieu of home office)
- Access to the Peerspace network of inspiring spaces to do your best work
- Flexible take it as you need it time off policy
- Wellness Fridays observed company wide
- Annual in-person, all company offsites and team-building events (in Peerspace locations, of course)
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Kevin Yuann
(CEO)Joined Peerspace in 2024 as CEO. Previously they held the position of Chief Business officer at NerdWallet and Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at Visa.
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