Lead Data Engineer

Lead Data Engineer

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Vori is building the operating system for grocery. Data is at the core: item catalogs, invoices, movements, pricing, promotions, loyalty, and payments all flow through our platform.

• 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.

• 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.

• Strong analytical mind with comfort in probability and statistics (sampling, anomaly detection, false positives/negatives).
• You reason clearly about uncertainty and tradeoffs, and you can explain them simply.

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

• Forward Deployed Engineers who build customer integrations and ingestion
• Operations and onboarding teams who live the messy reality
• Product + Core Engineering teams who build platform capabilities and features

You’ll be the person who makes data “boringly reliable” while still shipping fast.

• You will be stretched and challenged with large scope and fast-paced deadlines. This is not a “keep the lights on” data role—this is building the data foundation for a company transforming a ~$1T industry.
• Vori isn’t a simple 9–5 job. We’re building a Seal Team 6 of individuals who work hard, long, and smart to deliver exceptional results with limited resources. If we win, we transform the most fundamental industry on earth—food. Are you in?

• Mission-driven team building tech that helps local businesses thrive
• Backed by top investors and advisors from Stripe, Uber, Palantir, and Toast
• Real revenue, real growth, and a massive market opportunity
• A chance to shape not just marketing—but the company's future

Mid-Senior level

Full-time

Information Technology

Software Development

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