Staff Data Platform Engineer, Tilt
$210-240k
Offers equity
More information about location
Credit health & financial management app
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Credit health & financial management app
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$210-240k
Offers equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To expand access to fair credit to give anyone in the world the opportunity to improve their financial security and mobility.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of data engineering / data platform experience, including significant time as a senior IC building reusable infrastructure that other teams depend on at scale
- Demonstrated technical leadership — setting architecture direction, reviewing designs, and mentoring engineers on a data platform team
- Strong software-engineering fundamentals in Python (or another Object Oriented Language) — production-grade code, testing, CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or similar) on a cloud provider stack (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
- Experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools, and a cloud provider stack (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Data governance, security, and multi-tenancy competence — least-privilege access, auditing, lineage, and privacy-aware design
- Able to effectively leverage AI-powered development tools (e.g., Claude, Augment) to enhance productivity, code quality, and collaboration
- Don’t meet every qualification? We care about potential over your past. If you're bringing ambition and drive to what we're building, we want to hear from you
What the job involves
- Tilt runs on data-driven decisions, and our Data Platform is what makes that possible
- Over the last two years our team built the governed, queryable Databricks warehouse the company now operates on, plus the dbt gold layer that turns raw data into something teams can actually use
- Today the company can't build models, perform analytics or measure anything without us
- The job ahead isn't building the warehouse; it's scaling how we extend it so Analytics, Data Science, and app can move fast without bottlenecking on us
- Every time one of those teams waits on a ticket, the whole company's decision-making slows down
- Our job is to make that wait disappear
- As our Staff Data Platform Engineer, you'll be the technical lead: a senior individual contributor who sets the architecture and builds the patterns, paved roads, and self-service flows that let other teams build on the platform safely — without filing a ticket and waiting
- You won't be measured by the pipelines you personally ship, but by the leverage and reliability the platform gives everyone else
- We work in Python to build tooling for loading Databricks, Azure Event Hub, and Terraform, and we operate pattern-first: every project leaves a reusable system behind
- Design the technical architecture of the Databricks Data Warehouse — ingestion, storage, compute, orchestration, governance, and observability — and act as the pattern reviewer and architectural sounding board for the team
- Build, scale, and optimize secure, self-service frameworks for batch and streaming data so the same request shape is never solved by hand twice
- Treat the platform like production software: define and defend SLOs, own lineage and observability, and lead incident triage and root-cause analysis to durable fixes
- Design governance and multi-tenancy as first-class guardrails — least-privilege access, auditing, cost controls, and privacy-aware patterns — across app-team schemas and multiple workspaces
- Automate and harden data infrastructure and CI/CD so the warehouse stays safe to change at scale
- Raise the team’s technical bar through design review, code review, and mentorship, setting standards that are adopted because they’re good
- Make documentation a first-class deliverable — every pattern ships with the docs that let an analyst, partner team, or AI agent use it without asking us
Our take
An individual’s credit score greatly influences their life, affecting their ability to rent, receive loans, buy a house, and access affordable interest rates. But you have to have credit to build credit, leaving a lot of people in a catch-22 situation. Tilt (formerly Empower Financial) is a mobile-only app that makes credit more inclusive and accessible, helping customers achieve their credit health goals regardless of their credit history (or lack thereof).
Though other FinTech companies such as Mint or Personal Capital also offer impressive financial tracking for their customers, Tilt’s comprehensive set of personal finance features including cash advance and automatic savings offerings make it a better choice for people who want to use a single app to manage their finances.
By empowering people to take control of their money through its range of financial services, Tilt is working to break the cycle of paycheck-to-paycheck living. Backed by Blisce, Defy Ventures and Quiet Capital, the company has been significantly growing its revenue in recent years and was recognized in the 2022 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing companies in the US.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
45% employee growth in 12 months
Trustpilot (1.9)
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2022
$75m
LATE VC
Mar 2020
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $99.5m
Company benefits
- Virtual-first teamwork: Great work happens anywhere. We're collaborating across 14 countries, 12 time zones
- Full health coverage: Find flexible plans at every premium level and substantial subsidies that stand up to global standards
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Warren Hogarth
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previous a Partner at Sequoia Capital and is an Early Investor/Company Builder for multiple companies.
Justin Ammerlaan
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously founded Ammerlaan Initiatives and Co-Founded White Room Trading. Also worked as a Senior Software Engineer at SDM and a Technical Architect at Fujitsu.
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