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Primer · 1 day ago

Technical Lead, Data & Inference

positionSan Francisco Bay Area
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level, Lead/Staff
date6+ years exp

Primer is building the intelligence layer for modern go-to-market teams. As a Technical Lead, Data & Inference, you will lead the design and scaling of the data platform, ensuring reliable and efficient data pipelines while mentoring the team.

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H1B Sponsor Likelynote
Hiring Manager
Juan Vasquez
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Responsibilities

Build and ship batch + streaming pipelines; prototype, profile, and harden the critical paths. Mentor, review, and lift the bar
Own reliability, cost, and SLOs: observability + capacity planning, ≥99.9% uptime, minutes-level latency, and cost/TB efficiency—plus RCAs that end in fixes that •stick•
Run pragmatic inference pipelines that augment data flows (enrichment, scoring, QA with LLMs/RAG) with versioning, canaries, caching, and eval loops
Partner cross-functionally to build “data as a product” a la Netflix: contracts, ownership, lifecycle management, and usage-based impact
Drive pipeline + data lake architecture: crisp design reviews, documented trade-offs/lineage/reversibility, and clear build-vs-buy calls others can trust

Qualification

Data engineeringSQL optimizationPythonDistributed data techPipeline designThird-party API integrationDbtKubernetesNode.jsAsync communication

Required

6+ years building and scaling production-grade data systems, with leadership experience on data engineering/platform teams (architecture, modeling, pipeline design)
Expert SQL (optimization on large datasets) + strong Python; hands-on with distributed data tech (e.g., Spark/Flink/Kafka) and orchestration (Airflow/Dagster/Prefect)
Experience scaling integrations with third-party APIs/internal services; strong instincts around concurrency/parallelization and classic processing patterns
Familiarity with dbt, columnar databases (DuckDB, ClickHouse), and modern data stack fundamentals; IaC/CI/CD/observability basics (Kubernetes exposure is a plus)
Strong fundamentals (BS/MS in CS/CE/EE or similar) and strong async communication across distributed teams

Preferred

very good Node.js—it helps you ramp faster in our stack

Company

Primer

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Primer is a business to business marketing company offering marketing solutions.
dateFounded in 2019
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://www.sayprimer.com/

H1B Sponsorship

Primer has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (3)
2024 (2)
2023 (2)
2022 (4)
2021 (2)
2020 (5)

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$12M
Key Investors
Craft Ventures
2022-05-19Series A· $12M
2021-04-01Seed

Leadership Team

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Juan Vasquez
Co-founder and CTO
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