Data Platform Engineer, Prepared
$180-220k
+ company equity
Providing real-time data to emergency services
Be an early applicant
Providing real-time data to emergency services
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-220k
+ company equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
Prepared's mission is to build software that saves lives, facilitating rapid emergency service response by providing real-time data at emergency locations.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires a blend of strategic vision and hands-on technical skills
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering with a data focus, data science, or a related role
- Knowledge of designing data pipelines from a variety of source (e.g. streaming, flat files, APIs)
- Proficiency in SQL and experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL)
- Experience with real-time data processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Kafka, Spark Streaming, Flink, Pulsar, Redpanda)
- Strong programming skills in common data-focused languages (e.g., Python, Scala)
- Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools (e.g., Apache Airflow, Prefect, Temporal)
- Familiarity with AWS-based data solutions
- Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts and technologies (Snowflake)
- Experience documenting data dependency maps and data lineage
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to work independently and take initiative
- Proficiency in containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
Desirable
- Experience in an early-stage startup
- Familiarity with cloud-agnostic data solutions
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced data engineer to join our platform engineering team
- This is an opportunity to join a small, growing engineering org and make a large impact while operating with a high degree of autonomy and ownership
- You will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the data pipelines and infrastructure that power our analytics and product features
- As an early member of the team, you will also play a key role in shaping the foundation of Prepared’s engineering culture
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable data pipelines and infrastructure
- Collaborate with software engineers, product managers, customer success managers, and others across the business to understand data requirements
- Optimize and manage our data storage solutions
- Ensure data quality, reliability, and security across the data lifecycle
- Develop and maintain ETL processes and frameworks
- Work with stakeholders to define data availability SLAs
- Create and manage data models to support business intelligence and analytics
Our take
Every day, half a million Americans call 911 to report an emergency, and whilst emergency services save lives, their speed and effectiveness are limited by technology. Even though most emergency phone calls are made on smartphones, emergency departments rely exclusively on the anecdotal data provided during phone calls.
Prepared provides a real-time data system for emergency services, allowing 911 callers to livestream, text photo/video messages over SMS, provide pinpoint-accurate GPS location in DMS format and integrate into existing PSAP processes easily. In doing so, Prepared empowers 911 operators to deploy the most effective response for both emergency and non-emergency situations.
The company has shown the potential to significantly innovate upon emergency services (which have traditionally lacked funding). It has also avoided the often long cycle of government procurement by offering the service for free, and currently has over 200 cities signed up, across 40+ states (representing around 20 million citizens). It is unclear how the company will monetise in the future, but it has mentioned a possible freemium element to its service down the line, whilst substantial funding from Andreessen Horowitz, awarded in 2024, will help it to expand its platform.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Company benefits
- Work on technology that has and will directly save lives
- Work with a small, exceptionally smart team
- Meaningful equity at an early stage company
- Apple equipment
- Full healthcare coverage
- Unlimited PTO
- Dental
Company HQ
Midtown East, New York, NY
Leadership
Michael Chime
(Co-Founder & CEO)Mike was chosen as one of 24 world wide to be recognized as a Thiel Fellow. He was awarded a $100,000 scholarship to drop out of Yale University and pursue Prepared.
Dylan Gleicher
(Co-Founder)Dropped out of Yale University studying Computer Science to found Prepared. Dylan loves writing exceptionally high quality code and plays competitive ping pong.
Neal Soni
(Co-Founder)Dropped out of Yale University studying Computer Science to found Prepared. Neal was formally a national champion in Taekwondo and loves rock climbing.
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