Role overviewYou'll be the first Data Engineer on the Artisan team! We're managing a database of hundreds of millions of leads and creating real-time intent signals which monitor data fields for those leads. You'll own everything data-related at Artisan.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines that process and transform large volumes of structured and unstructured data
- Manage ingestion from third-party APIs, internal systems, and customer datasets
- Develop and maintain data models, data schemas, and storage systems optimized for ML and product performance
- Collaborate with ML engineers to prepare model-ready datasets, embeddings, feature stores, and evaluation data
- Implement data quality monitoring, validation, and observability
- Work closely with product engineers to support new features that rely on complex data flows
- Optimize systems for performance, cost, and reliability
- Contribute to early architecture decisions, infrastructure design, and best practices for data governance
- Build tooling that enables the entire team to access clean, well-structured data
Location: San Francisco, New York, or Remote USA
Team: Engineering
Reports to: CPTO, Sam Stallings
Who you are- 3+ years of experience as a Data Engineer
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, and modern data tooling (dbt, Airflow, Dagster, or similar)
- Comfort working in fast, ambiguous environments
- Experience designing and operating ETL/ELT pipelines in production
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Familiarity with data lakes, warehouses, and vector databases
- Experience integrating APIs and working with semi-structured data (JSON, logs, event streams)
- Strong understanding of data modeling and optimization
- Bonus: experience supporting LLMs, embeddings, or ML training pipelines
- Bonus: startup experience
Interview process- Introductory chat with our recruiter
- 1 hour technical interview with an engineer
- 1 hour technical interview with an engineer
- 30-minute interview with Sam, our CPTO
- 15-minute culture and values interview with Jaspar, our CEO
