Staff Software Engineer Data
AI-native marketing operations platform for enterprise teams.
About Gradial
Gradial provides AI agents and governed workflows that automate enterprise marketing execution across content, campaigns, assets, pages, email, localization, quality assurance, and connected systems such as CMS, DAM, ticketing, design, CDP, and marketing-automation tools.
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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 own the data platform end to end while remaining hands-on. You will define its roadmap, design production data models and search systems, build pipelines and a warehouse, establish metrics and data-quality practices, instrument the customer lifecycle, and make pragmatic architecture and build-versus-buy decisions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering, data engineering, or related experience
- Experience owning complex data systems
- Experience defining and building data architecture
- Expertise in relational database design, schemas, indexing, query patterns, and consistency tradeoffs
- Experience building production data pipelines, warehouses, and analytical data models
- Experience building production search systems and evaluating retrieval quality
- Experience shipping reliable production code and making architecture decisions
- Ability to translate business needs into durable data systems
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the data platform roadmap
- Own production data modeling, schemas, and access patterns
- Lead multimodal indexing and search across images, documents, and text
- Build and own data pipelines across production databases, product events, and third-party systems
- Build the warehouse, governed metrics, and self-service tooling
- Instrument the customer lifecycle
- Set standards for data quality, contracts, and observability
- Make architecture and build-versus-buy decisions
Benefits
- Performance-based annual bonus
- Equity awards
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage fully covered for employees and 75% covered for dependents
- Fertility and family-planning support
- 401k plan
- Unlimited PTO
- Seattle office gym, sauna, and bike parking
- Free lunch three days per week
- Flexible work hours
