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Vori · 1 day ago

Lead Data Engineer

positionSan Francisco
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityLead/Staff

Vori is building the operating system for grocery, focusing on data as a core component of their platform. They are seeking a Lead Data Engineer to own the ETL strategy and data platform, ensuring high standards and scalability while leading a hands-on team.

AppsE-CommerceGroceryMade to OrderOperating SystemsSoftwareSupply Chain ManagementWholesale

Responsibilities

Lead the design and evolution of our data platform and ETL/ELT
Own our orchestration layer: asset design, partitioning strategies, sensors/schedules, backfills/replays, retries, and operational best practices
Own pipelines that ingest data from real customer systems (CSV/EDI/API/SFTP, PDFs/OCR)
Own data checks and monitoring (freshness, duplicates, drift, broken joins)
Define core data models and metric definitions with Product/Engineering/Ops
Improve performance and cost in the warehouse
Set engineering standards and mentor the engineers doing data work
Help hire and grow the data engineering function over time

Qualification

Data engineeringETL/ELT systemsSQLData modelingGCP + BigQueryAnalytical skillsStartup mindsetEvent-driven architectures

Required

Expertise in data engineering / analytics engineering / data platform roles (or equivalent depth)
Proven experience designing and scaling data platforms and ETL/ELT systems in production
Experience with unstructured ingestion (OCR pipelines, document parsing)
Excellent SQL and strong fundamentals in data modeling (facts/dims, grains, SCD patterns, avoiding double counts)
Real operational experience: idempotency, backfills, schema evolution, observability, and incident response for data
Startup mindset: you can move fast, prioritize ruthlessly, and build leverage with limited resources

Preferred

CDC/streaming experience, event-driven architectures
Experience building semantic layers / metrics governance
GCP + BigQuery (or equivalent) experience

Company

Vori

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Vori is a B2B operating system for the grocery industry, streamlining operations and democratizing food supply access.
dateFounded in 2019
location
East Palo Alto, California, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://www.vori.com/

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$10.15M
2022-08-03Series A· $10M
2022-05-01Seed
2020-03-16Seed· $0.15M

Leadership Team

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Brandon Hill
Chief Executive Officer
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Tremaine Kirkman
Chief Product Officer & Founder
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