Apollo.io
Senior Director of Engineering, Native Data
$349K–$502K
Hybrid, San Francisco +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Location
- Hybrid, San Francisco
Hybrid - San Francisco
About the job
Lead Apollo’s engineering organization for its core data platform, improving how data is acquired, enriched, evaluated, refreshed, and distributed across the product.
What you'll do
- Set engineering strategy and execution for Native Data, Waterfall Enrichment, and Scraping & Extension; build and grow the teams responsible for these areas.
- Lead architecture and systems for large-scale enrichment, scraping, ETL, reverse ETL, data synchronization, and data ingestion and distribution.
- Establish feedback loops, monitoring, dashboards, and quality benchmarks to measure and improve data coverage, accuracy, confidence, and freshness.
What they ask for
- Track record leading high-performing engineering teams responsible for large-scale data or distributed systems.
- Deep technical understanding of data infrastructure, distributed systems, databases, ingestion, synchronization, and data quality.
- Experience operating systems where correctness, freshness, reliability, scale, and cost matter, and building and growing teams while maintaining a high technical bar.
- Current fluency with AI-assisted development and a clear point of view on how AI changes engineering and large-scale data systems.
Pay
$401,900 — $502,300 USD (total cash compensation); $349,400 — $436,800 USD (total cash compensation)
Tools
ETL, reverse ETL
AI focus
Set standards for using AI and agents across engineering work, and identify how AI can transform data acquisition, validation, enrichment, reconciliation, and maintenance at scale.
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