Braintrust
Founding Data Engineer
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jul 13, 2026
About the job
Establish and own Braintrust’s data foundation, including analytics models, ingestion pipelines, architecture, and reliable self-serve metrics for business teams.
What you'll do
- Define shared business entities, metrics, and semantics; build core SQL and dbt models and self-serve analytics.
- Build and own ingestion from product events, CRM, and other business systems, and make architecture decisions for storage, orchestration, and transformation.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, and GTM; ensure data governance, reliability, and traceability.
What they ask for
- Strong command of SQL and dbt; experience with a cloud warehouse and an orchestrator.
- Ability to write and maintain production code and own pipelines end to end.
- Sound judgment in data modeling, schema evolution, contracts, and lineage; strong debugging skills.
- Able to work directly with executives and functional leaders and operate as the only data hire.
Nice to have
- Built a data foundation from scratch; startup or early/first data-hire experience.
- Experience with usage-based pricing or agents for internal workflows; familiarity with listed stack tools or equivalents.
Tools
SQL, dbt, Snowflake, Dagster, Airflow, AWS Batch/Lambda, Fivetran, Terraform
AI focus
Use AI to accelerate development and build a well-described data foundation that AI tooling can rely on; experience building or using agents for internal workflows is a bonus.
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