Data Engineer

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Build like a founder. Ship like Spartan.
Our clients are startups in a race: an MVP in 30 days, and billions of data points the year after. We're looking for a Data Engineer to build the platform that carries it.
We don't act like vendors. We embed. Our teams sit inside startups backed by YC, Pear VC, BlingCap, a16z, and Techstars, working beside founders and engineers from Stanford, MIT, Yale, Google, Amazon, and Uber. Together we ship those MVPs and scale the systems behind them to millions of users and billions of requests.
This isn't a batch-and-dashboards seat three layers from the client. You'll be in the founder's Slack. Your pipelines run in production. You'll own the data platform behind real-time operations, analytics, and AI, from ingestion all the way to serving.
Data is the core of the job. Backend and infra come with it, because owning the path to production means you deploy your own work and build the services that hand data to the product. You don't need to arrive as an expert in all three. You do need to be willing to learn the other two.
70% of our portfolio is LLM-powered, and every one of those features runs on data someone had to make trustworthy first. That's your work. Cursor, Claude, and Codex are default tools here, not experiments. You'll use AI every day, and you'll be expected to use it well.
Who Thrives at Spartan
Not every environment fits everyone, so here's an honest picture of the teammate we're looking for.
You'll thrive here if:
You do whatever it takes to win. A schema redesign today, a backfill script and a founder demo tomorrow.
You take on the hardest part of the project and see it through to shipped.
You chase a wrong number until you find where it broke. Silent bad data bothers you more than a loud outage.
You'd rather own a problem than a ticket.
Some weeks will stretch you. That's the job. But you'll never carry it alone. A critical client release or a tricky production issue? Someone always has your back. We push each other hard because we care how far each of us can go. We win together. We lose together. Nobody gets left behind.
One last thing. We're not filling seats. We're looking for teammates for the battles ahead. If you read all this and something in you said yes, trust that feeling and apply. We respect people who back themselves. Every Spartan here started with that same yes.
What You'll Do
Build ingestion for operational, telemetry, and business data: ETL and ELT, incremental loads, CDC, backfills that don't take the system down.
Model data for how it gets used: event schemas upstream, star schemas and marts downstream.
Build streaming pipelines that land data in near real time: windowed aggregations, stream joins, late and duplicate events, exactly-once writes to the sink.
Own data infrastructure end to end: ingestion, processing, storage, serving.
Own data quality: contracts, schema changes, lineage, and alerts that fire before a founder spots a wrong number.
Build the data layer behind AI features: feature pipelines, embeddings and vector stores, RAG source data, eval datasets.
Build the serving layer: APIs and services that expose metrics, aggregates, and feature data to product teams.
Ship fast with a proven process: async standups, PRDs/RFCs, code reviews, and an AI-native workflow on Cursor, Claude, and Codex.
Talk directly with US startup founders and product leaders. Your input shapes what gets measured and what gets built.
Wear more than one hat. Data first, but you'll touch backend, infra, and AI integration when the project needs it.
Help shape Spartan's engineering culture. We work like founders, not contractors.
Career Growth
Work directly with founders from YC, Stanford, MIT, Yale, Google, Amazon, Uber, and more.
Exposure to streaming, real-time systems, AI infrastructure, and cloud at scale.
Transparent career path and mentorship from engineers who've taken 3 companies to IPO.
Every project feels like its own mini-startup.
Why Spartan
50+ MVPs launched, 3 IPOs, $100M+ raised by the startups we build with.
95% engineer retention. People stay because the work is worth staying for.
You build zero to one. First event ingested to a live data platform in weeks. Most engineers get that chance once in a career. Here it's the job.
Your work is visible. The pipeline you build this month is the number in a founder's investor deck next month.
No layers, no bureaucracy. You talk to the decision-maker directly, and decisions land in hours, not weeks.
Every project is a new market, a new stack, a new problem. One year here teaches what three years elsewhere would.
You'll never just take tickets. You'll own problems, ship fast, and grow with the founders we partner with.
Benefits & Perks
💰 Competitive salary, 100% salary during probation
🏝 Unlimited PTO + public holidays
🩺 Premium healthcare insurance + annual health check
⚽ Sports clubs for every taste: football, badminton, billiards, pickleball
🎮 PS5 and Nintendo at the office
🏃 Strava yearly subscription
🏠 Hybrid working style, flexible hours
✈️ Annual company trip + monthly team parties
💻 MacBook provided
📜 Social insurance per Labor Law