Head of Field Engineering, Nextdata
Operating system for decentralised data
Job no longer available
Operating system for decentralised data
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make the experience of creating, sharing, discovering, and using data connected, fast and fair.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience as a Data Engineer, Product Developer, Field Solutions Engineer or Solutions Architect
- Experience with data modeling and dashboard development with Looker, PowerBI, etc. for demonstration purposes
- Experience with data processing pipeline development; proficiency in data pipeline tools like airflow, dagster, prefect, dbt and ML development environments like PySpark and Panda
- Experience working on complex data pipelines in large data organizations
- Software engineering best practices and tooling, CI/CD, git, etc
- A curiosity, passion and experience in application of data in ML and Analytics applications
- An understanding and experience with data mesh
- Experience contributing to big data / analytics OSS projects or internal data infra products
- Experience in taking undefined business problems and building end-to-end data solutions for a variety of stakeholders and clients
- Experience helping the business quantify the value of your analyses, articulating, and presenting your findings in a compelling manner
- Experience with continuous integration and deployment to reduce software lead time, and have contributed to optimizing build and release processes as needed
- Shown evidence that you aspire to test-first data pipeline development
What the job involves
- As the Head of Field Engineering, while building the Field Engineering team, you will actively create solutions on top of the Nextdata OS
- You will work with Nextdata’s initial customers to translate their business needs into PoC data products that you will then build on top of our OS
- You will leverage your experience of the full lifecycle of analytics - translating business requirements to data models, to data pipelines, to analytics dashboards and even machine learning pipelines - to build data products and then provide feedback that will help us improve the Nextdata OS and tooling
- You will manage the full lifecycle of the PoC data products from ideation around business use cases to successful deployment, including synthesizing realistic data for testing before deploying into production
Our take
An increasingly popular software architecture is data mesh, a type of data platform that implements domain-oriented and self-serve designs. These types of platforms make it easier for companies to create, share, and connect their data to decentralize the information they use, all without having to transfer data to centralized repositories or lakes.
That said, many companies that wish to implement data mesh trip up from the get-go, often being too dependent on centralized data governance and lacking the specialists to fully benefit from it. Nextdata is a data-mesh-native platform that customers can use to build and share data products, making it easier for more businesses to benefit from the architecture.
The company is up against large and mature competitors, such as Databricks and Snowflake, but claims to stand out thanks to its product-first ethos. The platform was also built specifically for data sharing concerning AI and machine learning, which makes it scaleable and future-proof in a crowded market. Nextdata has secured strong seed funding to help grow its team and operations.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2023
$12m
SEED
Total funding: $12m
Company benefits
- Home office stipend ($2,000 for your home workspace setup)
- Company laptop
- Premium health, vision, and dental insurance coverage
- Regular in-person meetings in California
- Plus or minus 3 hours from Pacific time is welcome
- Craft, teamwork, flexibility, and accountability
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Zhamak Dehgani
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously Director of Next Tech Incubation at Thoughtworks, and Principal Software Engineer at Silverbrook Reseach and Fox Technology.
Sina Jahan
(Head of Product Engineering & Co-Founder)Previously Head of Data Practice at Thoughtworks, Team Lead at ClearFit, and Software Engineer at Research Now.
Dan Siweic
(Principal Engineer & Co-Founder)Previously Principal Architect at Kambr, Lead Consultant at Thoughtworks, and Senior Solutions Developer at Acxiom.
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