Senior/Staff Data Engineer, Firework
$160-180k
+ Stock options
More information about location
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Video-based eCommerce platform
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Video-based eCommerce platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-180k
+ Stock options
More information about location
Office located in San Mateo, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To revolutionize commerce by bringing the power of video to every digital experience, fostering deeper human connections between brands and shoppers.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer with deep expertise in modern data architectures, strong technical problem-solving skills, and a passion for building scalable, efficient, and maintainable data solutions
- 5+ years of professional experience in data engineering, software engineering, or a closely related field, with significant experience designing and maintaining production data or machine learning systems
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, including advanced querying, data transformations, and performance optimization
- Experience building and maintaining large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines and distributed data processing systems
- Hands-on experience with modern data warehousing technologies such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or open table format such as Iceberg
- Experience with data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Flink, or equivalent technologies
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS or GCP
- Strong understanding of data modeling, database design, and data architecture principles
- Experience implementing data quality, monitoring, and reliability practices in production environments
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to independently drive complex technical projects
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams
- Demonstrated leadership potential and a genuine interest in growing into a people management role, including mentoring engineers, building teams, and driving technical strategy
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior/Staff Data Engineer to help design, build, and scale our data infrastructure
- In this role, you will play a critical part in developing reliable, high-performance data pipelines and systems that power analytics, business intelligence, product development, and data-driven decision-making across the organization
- Depending on experience and seniority, this role will also provide technical leadership, influence architectural decisions, and help establish engineering best practices across the organization
- Responsible for designing, developing, and implementing our backend and machine learning data infrastructure -- including event-based data ingestions, stream processing, data warehouse, data pipelines, visualization, analytics and applications
- Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics and develop and maintain distributed data pipelines for ETL, feature engineering, and model running
- Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader, and keep our data separated and secure across national boundaries through multiple data centers and AWS regions
- Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems and our end-to-end data processing, troubleshooting, and problem diagnosis, performance benchmark, load balance, and code reviews
- Mentor other data engineers, providing technical guidance, sharing best practices, and supporting their professional development
Our take
Live-streamed shopping has long been popular in China. In 2020, the first 30 minutes of Alibaba’s Singles’ Day presale's campaign on Taobao Live generated an impressive $7.5B in total transaction value. Firework is helping to bring these kinds of video-based eCommerce experiences to a Western audience with a smart commercial strategy.
Originally launched as a standalone social platform featuring swipe-able web stories, Firework made a strategic shift towards a more streamlined B2B model. It now provides services to partners by granting them access to its video technology infrastructure, enabling them to effortlessly launch diverse and interactive shippable videos on their respective websites. The outcome of this pivot has paid off, with Firework emerging as the leading global platform of its kind.
The real money in shoppable videos is ultimately live-streamed experiences, which are still not landing for American audiences. Despite this, Firework’s more complete offering, including the ability to directly collect consumer data and learn about a shopper’s behaviour, means that American brands are giving the startup business ahead of this anticipated cultural shift.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2022
$150m
SERIES B
Mar 2021
$55m
SERIES A
Total funding: $270.3m
Company HQ
Downtown, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Vincent Yang
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously founded EverString which was acquired by ZoomInfo. Before that, worked as an Investment Manager at Summit Partners and before that as an Analyst in J.P. Morgan's Investment Banking team.
Jerry Luk
(Co-Founder & COO)Previously co-founded Presdo where they served as CTO. He also spent nearly 4 years at Edmodo as the Head o f Business Strategy, Mobile and was the creator of LinkedIn Mobile.
Rick Zhuang
(CTO)Prior to joining Firework in 2020, Rick was the Head of Engineering at Tmall New Retail at Alibaba Group. He was also the Director of Engineering at Tencent and a Tech Lead/Senior Relevance Scientist at Yahoo!
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