Deep experience operating Postgres in production, focusing on read/write concurrency.
Strong systems intuition, with an emphasis on identifying bottlenecks and tradeoffs.
Experience in designing analytical data architectures, including read-optimized schemas and large-scale querying.
Comfort in leading ambiguous, high-impact projects and navigating complex systems.
High ownership mindset with a focus on correctness, reliability, and maintainability of systems.
Curiosity and a desire to build foundational systems that others depend on.
Minimum 5 years of relevant experience.
Responsibilities
Own the core data systems that drive Plot's functionality.
Stabilize and improve high-throughput data ingestion paths.
Design and maintain responsive data access patterns for dashboards and queries.
Separate transactional and analytical workloads effectively.
Build optimized data models that enhance insight retrieval.
Enable advanced AI-native analytics capabilities within internal tools.
Make impactful architectural decisions and guide the evolution of data systems.
Raise reliability and performance standards across the engineering team.
Benefits
Collaborative work environment with a focus on innovation and creativity.
Opportunities for personal and professional growth.
Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance.
Access to advanced tools and technologies for data engineering.
Full Job Description
What You'll Work On
Own the core data systems that power Plot. You'll take responsibility for how millions of enriched videos flow from ingestion 1 storage 1 analytics 1 product surfaces.
Stabilize and harden high-throughput write paths. Our pipelines ingest and enrich data continuously; you'll diagnose failure modes, reduce error rates, and make ingestion reliable, observable, and predictable.
Design data access patterns that stay fast under pressure. You'll ensure dashboards and analytical queries remain responsive even while large volumes of data are being written concurrently.
Separate transactional and analytical concerns. You'll lead decisions around which workloads belong where, and design the systems and contracts that keep them from stepping on each other.
Build read-optimized models for insight, not just storage. This includes partitioning strategies, rollups, and schemas that reflect how data is actually queried - by humans and by AI.
Enable AI-native analytics. You'll shape how our internal tools and AI agents query and reason over data, making it possible to answer complex analytical questions without brute-force scans.
Make architectural calls that matter. You'll evaluate tradeoffs, write RFCs, and guide the evolution of Plot's data platform as scale, product needs, and AI capabilities grow.
Raise the bar for reliability and performance across the team. You'll define best practices, unblock other engineers, and become a go-to resource for data-related decisions.
What We're Looking For
Deep experience operating Postgres in production under real-world read/write concurrency. You understand partitioning, locking, autovacuum, connection pooling, and why systems fail in subtle ways.
Strong systems intuition. You think in bottlenecks, failure modes, and tradeoffs - not just indexes or tooling.
Experience designing or owning analytical data architectures, including read-optimized schemas, aggregations, or large-scale querying patterns.
Comfort leading ambiguous, high-impact work. You can take a messy system, form a clear mental model, and chart a pragmatic path forward.
High ownership mindset. You like digging into logs, metrics, and real data - and you care deeply about correctness, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
Curiosity, pragmatism, and a desire to build foundational systems that other engineers and AI systems depend on. No degree requirements.
