Senior Data Engineer, Instrumentl
$170-190k
+ Equity
AI-powered SaaS platform for funding grants
Posted today
AI-powered SaaS platform for funding grants
101-200 employees
Posted today
$170-190k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To be a force-multiplier for non-profits.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years building production software, with at least 2 to 3 of those focused on data engineering
- Strong programming skills in Python and advanced proficiency in SQL
- Proven experience building ETL/ELT pipelines end to end, from ingestion through serving
- Hands-on experience with a cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and a modern data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift)
Desirable
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools like Airflow
- Experience supporting BI tools such as Looker or Tableau, and building semantic layers and dashboards
- Deep fluency across the full data lifecycle: ingestion, storage, processing, transformation, and serving
- Experience in early-stage or 0-to-1 environments
- Experience with streaming pipelines such as Kafka or Kinesis
- Exposure to ML/AI data pipelines, data analytics, or data science concepts
- Familiarity with Ruby and Rails
What the job involves
- You'll be our Senior Data Engineer, reporting to engineering leadership and taking ownership of a data platform that is still in its early stages
- This is a high-ownership, build-from-the-foundation seat: you'll shape the architecture, stand up reliable pipelines and trusted data models, and set the engineering standards that let our data scale with the company
- If you want real ownership over foundational infrastructure at a profitable, fast-growing company, rather than maintaining someone else's system at a larger one, this is that role
- Platform & Architecture:
- Design and scale our data platform across pipelines, models, and orchestration
- Define and implement systems for data ingestion, storage, processing, and transformation
- Optimize systems for performance, scalability, and cost from the start
- Pipelines & Engineering Practices:
- Build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines that ingest from APIs, databases, and event streams
- Apply software engineering principles such as testing, CI/CD, and modular design to data infrastructure
- Establish best practices for data modeling, testing, and quality
- Data Enablement & Partnership:
- Build the semantic layer and dashboards that make data usable across the company
- Partner with engineering, product, and business teams to shape data requirements
- Enable trusted, accessible data for BI and analytics decision-making
Our take
For nonprofits and academic institutions, a lot of energy and manpower is funnelled into finding the right grants and drafting their applications. This work before the work often takes hundreds of hours, and many funding bodies have as little as a 20% success rate. Instrumentl has set out to change that with its full-grant-drafting pipeline platform.
Instrumentl’s AI-powered platform works across the full grant lifecycle, assisting applicants in researching the perfect fit for funding, increasing redraft efficiency, discovering insights to align applications with the funding body's requirements and tracking and managing applications. Ultimately, then, Instrumentl sheds the need for multiple grant application tools and becomes a one-stop shop for grant consultants, non-profits and academic researchers.
It’s making a difference too, with a 2024 survey of customers revealing that its software helped them gain, on average, an extra $1.1 million a year. With a total of more than $7.7 billion raised through the platform and more than 4,500 leading organizations as customers, it’s unsurprising that Instrumentl itself has seen significant funding awarded. As the work of global non-profits grows in importance, Instrumentl is living up to its name.
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Company benefits
- Competitive salary: We offer a competitive salary as part of a comprehensive benefit package including a 401k
- Equity: We're doubling year over year. This means if we keep executing, the company (and your equity) will be worth a lot
- Health insurance: 100% coverage of employee health & dental insurance plans and 50% for dependents
- Paid time off: Generous PTO policy, including parental leave, so you can rest and recharge
- Office setup: Company laptop + $500 to set up your home workstation
- Investment in you: We help fund your professional development by providing coaching and education
- Remote: The team is fully distributed (read: no office!)
- Extras!: In-person retreats, surprise food deliveries, and games to add zest to your work life
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Katharine Corriveau
(Co-Founder)Previously a Development Specialist at UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley and a Computer Registrations Intern at the California Academy of Sciences.
Gauri Manglik
(Co-Founder & CEO)Also Member of the Board of Trustees at the Institute for Sustainable Philanthropy. Previously a Venture Partner at the Pioneer Fund, Product Manager at Air BNB and was a CEO & Co-Founder at Fondu.
Angela Braren
(Co-Founder)Previously Head of New Ventures at Perfect Day, was a Fundraiser at the Global Fund for Women and was a Salmon Habitat Specialist at Project SHARE.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Instrumentl
- At Instrumentl, we pride ourselves on building a diverse team from the ground up. We’re fully committed to cultivating a safe, welcoming environment where everyone is empowered to contribute, thrive, and do their best work.
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