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Greylock Partners · 1 week ago

Founding Data Engineer

San Jose, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Greylock Partners is an early-stage cybersecurity investment firm looking to hire a Founding Data Engineer. The role involves designing and operating a modern data lakehouse environment, constructing robust data pipelines, and ensuring platform performance and accuracy at scale.

FinanceFinancial ServicesVenture Capital

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Designing and operating a modern, open-source data lakehouse environment built to handle extremely large datasets

Constructing robust, end-to-end pipelines—from data intake to processing to end-user access

Ensuring the platform is performant, dependable, and accurate at massive scale

Qualification

Data platform managementStreaming data processingBatch data processingPythonOpen-source technologiesData transformation practicesCloud service provider experienceData governance toolsClear communicationTechnical documentation

Required

Demonstrated expertise in building and managing very large data platforms (multi-petabyte range)

Background in both streaming and batch data processing

Hands-on familiarity with open-source technologies commonly used in lakehouse setups (e.g., Iceberg, PostgreSQL, Parquet, graph databases such as Neo4j)

Strong experience with streaming and analytics frameworks like Kafka, Spark, or Flink

Solid understanding of data transformation practices

Advanced proficiency in Python

Clear communication skills and the ability to produce strong technical documentation

Preferred

prior industry exp in cybersecurity

experience with cloud service provider data ecosystems

knowledge of tools related to governance, data quality, and lineage

Company

Greylock Partners

We are the first partner for founders. Over 80% of our investments are the first check: Pre-Seed, Seed, or Series A. Many start on a whiteboard.

Founded in 1965

Menlo Park, California, USA

51-200 employees

https://www.greylock.com

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