Squarespace · 13 hours ago
Founding Senior Data Engineer, Domains Search
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$128K/yr - $232K/yr
6+ years expSquarespace is a design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online. They are seeking a Founding Senior Data Engineer to build the data foundation that powers their search and machine learning systems, influencing how millions of customers discover their online identity.
Developer ToolsE-Commerce PlatformsPublishingSoftwareWeb Design
Responsibilities
Build and own the data pipelines that power our search system: corpus ingestion, processing, enrichment, and index refresh
Design and maintain feature pipelines for ML models, partnering with our Ranking MLE on feature engineering and computation
Own the embedding pipeline infrastructure to run our models at scale
Integrate with and extend feature store infrastructure to serve features at training and inference time
Establish data quality monitoring, validation, and alerting across the search data stack
Partner with Machine Learning Engineering on index refresh strategies and schema evolution
Collaborate with Data Science to ensure clean, reliable data for experimentation and offline evaluation
Make pragmatic infrastructure decisions. You’ll adopt existing systems where they fit and build new ones where they don't
Qualification
Required
6+ years of professional experience in data engineering, including 2-3+ years supporting ML or search systems
Experience building and operating batch and streaming data pipelines at scale on a major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure). Background in low-latency data systems is a strong plus
Strong SQL skills with modern data tooling (Spark, Airflow, dbt, or similar)
Familiarity with ML infrastructure, such as feature stores, vector databases, embedding pipelines and ideally search systems (Elasticsearch, Solr, Vespa, or similar)
Data ownership to drive quality end-to-end, including schema design, validation, monitoring, and debugging
Benefits
A choice between medical plans with an option for 100% covered premiums
Fertility and adoption benefits
Access to supplemental insurance plans for additional coverage
Headspace mindfulness app subscription
Global Employee Assistance Program
Retirement benefits with employer match
Flexible paid time off
20 weeks for parental leave and up to 12 weeks to care for an ill family member
Pretax commuter benefit
Education reimbursement
Employee donation match to community organizations
8 Global Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
Dog-friendly workplace
Free lunch and snacks
Private rooftop
Hack week twice per year
Company
Squarespace
Squarespace is a website building and hosting platform that helps users create websites without needing advanced technical skills.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$578.5MKey Investors
General Atlantic
2024-05-13Acquired
2023-11-15Post Ipo Secondary
2021-05-19IPO
Leadership Team
Anthony Casalena
Founder & CEO
Nathan Gooden
Chief Financial Officer
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