Data Engineer, Shift5
$130-170k
+ Equity + Bonus program
Operational intelligence platform
Be an early applicant
Operational intelligence platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$130-170k
+ Equity + Bonus program
101-200 employees
Company mission
To power actionable insights for America’s defense and transportation systems.
Role
Who you are
- Engineering Experience: 2+ years of software/data engineering experience with a deep understanding of software engineering practices and concepts
- Core Languages: 2+ years of experience with a major programming language (GoLang, Java, or Python)
- Databases & Big Data: 2+ years of relational database experience (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, etc.) alongside 2+ years of experience with Big Data (Hadoop, Spark) and Data Modeling
- Cloud & Containers: 2+ years of experience with containerization and cloud services (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud monitoring tools
- Data Pipelines: Expertise with batch and streaming data pipelines using technologies such as Apache Airflow or Benthos
- Modern Data Stack: Familiarity with modern data stack components including data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration
- U.S. citizenship required and ability to obtain a security clearance
- Data Architecture: Experience and understanding of data lakes/warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift)
- DevOps Practices: Proficiency with CI/CD, source control, design reviews, and integrating observable practices
- Travel Flexibility: Willingness to travel occasionally to customer and partner sites to support field integration and deployment efforts
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Data Engineer to join our growing Product Engineering team. In this role, your primary responsibility will be to design, build, and maintain data processing, storage, and integration pipelines. You will report to our Off Vehicle Manager, Software Engineering, and operate in a team-based environment with engineers, product managers, program managers, and designers to conceive, implement, and shape major features. You’ll be a major factor in generating high-impact products that literally save lives
- Design & Build Pipelines: Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable batch and streaming data processing, storage, and integration pipelines
- Feature Ownership: Interpret requirements and design specifications, taking full ownership of building features from the ground up
- Write Quality Code: Write clean, well-documented, scalable, extensible, and testable code to ensure application quality and maintainability
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with data scientists and engineers to create semantic data models representing complex vehicular systems, and integrate applications cleanly across other Shift5 componentry
- Support Stakeholders: Build scalable data products for data scientists, transportation engineers, and executives to drive insights and decision-making
- Cloud Optimization: Create efficient, reliable, cost-effective, dynamically scalable, and observable solutions utilizing AWS cloud services
- Data Analysis & Quality: Analyze complex data sets to create data ontologies, verify data quality/integrity, and ensure data accuracy throughout pipelines
- Field Support: Support the design process and occasionally travel to customer sites (estimated a few times per year) to collaborate with Field Engineers on data integration and deployment
- High-Impact Delivery: You successfully deliver scalable, observable, supportable, and reliable data processing applications that empower customers to run smarter, safer fleets
- End-to-End Ownership: You confidently steer features from initial requirements gathering and design through planning and implementation in a fast-paced environment
- Collaborative Impact: You actively shape product design alongside multidisciplinary teams, contributing directly to a culture of high performance and mission readiness
- Adaptability: You efficiently multitask and smoothly accommodate changing priorities on demand to meet the dynamic needs of a scaling company
Our take
Shift5 dominates the fairly niche area of protecting transportation and military systems from cyberattacks. It delivers an observability platform for onboard operational technology (OT), that enables real-time decision intelligence from the single asset level to across entire fleets.
With cybersecurity being of increasing concern across federal governmental agencies, Shift5 is well primed to profit from its specific focus on defending transportation networks. By operating in an area that is both massively underserved and rapidly growing, there is no doubt opportunities will continue to fall at the company's feet in the coming years.
With an enormous amount of funding raised, Shift5 has invested in expansion and product development, as well as growing its team. It already supports multiple branches of the US military including the Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, and Special Operations. It also released a module for predictive maintenance that enables it to help improve fleet readiness and avoid critical failures.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Sep 2025
$75m
SERIES C
Jun 2023
$33m
SERIES B
Total funding: $182.1m
Company benefits
- Employer paid health insurance
- 401k employer contribution
- HSA employer contribution
- Share options
- Flexible and unlimited paid time off
- Flexible and hybrid work options
- Three months paid parental leave
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
Company HQ
Radnor - Fort Myer Heights, Arlington, VA
Leadership
Josh Lospinoso
(Founder)Former CEO of the company. Was a Board Member for the Association of American Rhodes Scholars and a Venture Partner at First In. Acted as CTO for RedOwl Analytics and has served as a Captain in the US Army.
Toby Magsig
(President & Interim CEO)Previously a Board Member at Seasats, VP/GM of Enterprise Autonomous Solutions at L3Harris Technologies and Commander (Joint Modernization Command) for Army Futures Command.
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