Founding Data Engineer
Braintrust is an active AI observability platform for teams building and operating production AI agents.
Funding history
About Braintrust
Braintrust provides tracing, evaluation, experimentation, and pattern-discovery tooling for AI agents. Teams can inspect agent traces, evaluate outputs with automated or human scoring, build datasets from production behavior, and gate releases against quality regressions.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will establish the data foundation by defining business entities and metrics, building SQL and dbt models, and owning ingestion pipelines. You will make architecture decisions, create self-service analytics, improve data reliability and governance, and partner on usage data and event schemas.
Requirements
- SQL
- dbt
- Experience with a cloud warehouse such as Snowflake
- Experience with an orchestrator such as Dagster or Airflow
- Ability to write and maintain production code
- Data modeling
- Schema evolution
- Data contracts
- Data lineage
- Debugging
- Ability to work directly with executives and functional leaders
- Ability to operate as the only data hire
Responsibilities
- Define business entities, metrics, and shared semantics
- Design and build core data models using SQL and dbt
- Build and own ingestion pipelines from product events, CRM, and business systems
- Make storage, orchestration, and transformation architecture decisions
- Build self-service analytics, semantic models, and trusted metrics
- Partner on usage data and event schemas
- Maintain data governance, reliability, quality, access controls, lineage, monitoring, and debugging
- Use AI to accelerate data foundation development
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages
- Flexible time off
- Equity
- WiFi and cellphone stipend