Published: Sat, 23 Aug 2025 16:50:43 GMT
Senior Data Engineer – Syrup
Syrup is a fast-growing, VC-backed startup that is revolutionizing inventory decisions in the commerce industry. Our AI-powered software, Syrup, empowers merchandising and planning teams with allocation, ordering, and planning recommendations by leveraging real-time data. Our mission is to eliminate waste in the commerce industry and create a more sustainable future.
About the Role:
As a Senior Data Engineer at Syrup, you will play a vital role in the development of our innovative data ingestion and processing pipeline. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a greenfield project in a fast-growing, machine-learning startup. You will work closely with a dynamic and diverse team of data scientists, software engineers, business experts, and visionaries.
Responsibilities:
– Lead the development and implementation of our advanced data ingestion and processing pipeline.
– Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and other engineers to create a robust data infrastructure for managing first and second-party data.
– Work on a greenfield project, utilizing your expertise to drive innovation and deliver impactful solutions.
– Contribute to a fast-growing startup, where your ideas and contributions will have a direct and meaningful impact.
– Be part of a dynamic and diverse team that values collaboration, creativity, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
– Play a pivotal role in building intuitive and predictive software that will redefine decision-making processes in the industry.
Requirements:
– Proven experience in a fast-paced startup environment, successfully building new systems from prototype to production.
– Collaborative mindset, able to work with customers, partners, Customer Success, Product and Analytics teams.
– Demonstrated pragmatic technical judgment in selecting and adapting data processing infrastructure, with a focus on scalability and building a robust data pipeline.
– Ability to start small and incrementally extend application functionality while improving scalability and performance.
– Strong commitment to operational excellence, ensuring the smooth operation of an always-on, always-shipping SAAS product.
– 4+ years of experience as a Data Engineer
– Deep technical expertise in information architecture, data engineering, and data warehousing, including proficiency in maintaining data quality, data versioning, and data documentation.
– Database architecture and data modeling, optimizing index performance, handling large time series datasets, working with stored procedures, star schema, snowflake schema, dimension tables, and fact tables.
– In-depth knowledge of PostgreSQL and its optimization techniques.
– Experience in optimizing data models and access patterns for modern warehouse and orchestration platforms such as Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks, Spark, DBT, Apache Airflow, and Prefect.
– Proficiency in Python, Pandas, and working with columnar formats like parquet and avro.
– Proven expertise in integrating large-scale external datasets, including tabular, text, and image data, through APIs, FTP, S3, or web scraping, building reliable and repeatable pipelines.
– Strong background in cloud deployment, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD, particularly with AWS S3, EC2, Lambda, and the ability to seamlessly integrate cloud-based infrastructure into the development lifecycle.
– Experience with data visualization/BI tools like Tableau, DOMO, PowerBI, or Looker is a plus.
What We Offer:
– Remote First: We’re a remote first team across Europe and East Coast North America. For our colleagues in New York, you can come into our office in SoHo as often as you like.
– Syrup Summits: We bring the whole global team together every quarter for our Syrup summits. Previous locations: Spain, Italy, Los Angeles, Warsaw, Boston, New York.
– Equity: We offer generous equity compensation for all our early employees.
– Generous health, vision, and dental coverage to our employees.
– Generous PTO to take all the time you need, whenever you need it.
– Competitive base pay with a range of $140,000 – $180,000 for New York and similarly competitive ranges for other locations, based on experience.
– Early-stage equity package and benefits including medical/dental/vision. Apply link