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Data Engineer

You.com - San Francisco, CA, United States - Hybrid - posted 2026-09-18

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Salary: USD 180,000 - 220,000 / annual

You.com is building the AI Search Infrastructure that powers modern AI systems, creating a trusted knowledge layer for agents, applications, and enterprises to retrieve real-time, accurate, and citation-backed information. The platform combines proprietary vertical indexes with LLM-optimized retrieval systems. You will join as a hands-on Data Engineer to build and scale the modern data platform. Working closely with Finance, Engineering, Product, and Analytics teams, you'll develop reliable, high-performance data pipelines and systems for both batch and real-time data processing. Key responsibilities include: - Build and maintain scalable data pipelines (batch and streaming) using Databricks, Spark, Kafka, and AWS services - Develop ETL/ELT workflows using DBT, PySpark, SQL, and Fivetran - Build pipelines from source systems (Salesforce, billing, product events, API logs) into clean analytics layers - Work with Finance on data solutions, metrics, forecasting models, revenue accounting, COGS, and margin reporting - Partner with marketing and growth teams on segmentation, campaign targeting, and lifecycle analytics - Develop and maintain reverse ETL pipelines to sync data to Salesforce, HubSpot, Braze, and other downstream systems - Create curated datasets and dashboards to support analytics, reporting, and go-to-market initiatives - Support AI/ML and agent-based applications by preparing datasets for MCP integrations and AI-driven applications - Monitor pipeline performance, implement data quality checks, validations, and alerting mechanisms - Collaborate across teams to define data contracts and ensure system consistency Requirements: - 6+ years of experience in data engineering or related field - Strong hands-on experience with Databricks, AWS (S3, Glue, Athena, EMR, etc.), and Kafka - Proficiency in Python (PySpark) and SQL for large-scale data processing - Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines (DBT/Airflow or similar) - Experience with data ingestion tools such as Fivetran or similar - Familiarity with reverse ETL/data activation workflows and syncing to Salesforce, HubSpot, Braze - Exposure to or experience with AI/ML data pipelines, including RAG architectures, vector databases, or embeddings workflows - Familiarity with agent-based systems, MCP integrations, or LLM-powered applications (strong plus) - Experience working with Finance and building finance-specific metrics and pipelines (strong plus) - Understanding of data modeling and working with large-scale datasets (batch and streaming) - Experience creating dashboards and supporting reporting workflows with BI tools - Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug production data issues - Strong communication and cross-team collaboration skills

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