Director of Data
Engineering / Full-Time
USA Remote
About Kandji
Kandji is building the future of Apple Enterprise Management. The use of Apple devices in the enterprise is growing rapidly. Drawing on decades of experience in Apple IT, we saw a dire need for a modern Apple device management platform that could accommodate growing businesses and increasing regulatory demands.
Kandji grew to hundreds of B2B customers within a few months of initial product launch in 2019, and secured a $100 million Series C in late 2021. Today, we have a 95% Customer Satisfaction rate and a rapidly growing community of customers, including names like Crunchbase, Belkin, Rackspace, Allbirds, FabFitFun, VSCO, and Turo.
Behind our business is a handful of the best investors in tech. Together, we are creating a new category of device management that can better serve modern businesses.
The Opportunity
As a Director of Data Engineering, you will have the very unique and exciting opportunity to lead and drive the vision, architecture, development, as well as continual improvement of the underlying data platform at Kandji. The successful candidate will drive alignment across engineering and executive leadership on our path to creating a next-generation data platform to enable Kandji to rapidly and reliably deliver data-related products to customers and internal stakeholders. This is a strategic role that requires a strong partnership with other functions across the company. You'll partner with other senior leaders across the company to translate technology capabilities into strategic business decisions. You'll drive accountability and metrics ownership to translate strategy into results.
Day to Day:
- Work closely with the Product and Engineering to create a data roadmap and ensure alignment
- Design, build and own a data platform capable of handling multi PB-scale
- Architect data platforms that can serve both customer use cases and/or internal stakeholders
- Collaborate with Software Engineers, ML Engineers, Data Scientists, and other stakeholders
- Mentor engineers on the team to level them up
- Raise the bar within engineering by adopting industry best practices, producing best in class code, documentation, testing, and monitoring
Minimum Qualifications:
- 10+ years of data engineering experience in high-growth engineering organizations, with 3+ years of managing and developing data engineering teams.
- Advanced experience with multiple data storage systems (RDBMS, NoSQL, in-memory, etc)
- Experience with distributed data stores (Cassandra, Hive, Druid, Pinot, Hadoop, etc)
- Wide exposure to open source software, frameworks, and broader cutting edge data related technologies (Airflow, Kafka, Spark, Storm, Flink, Samza, NiFi, etc)
- Experience designing and implementing data warehousing (S3, Redshift, Snowflake, HBase/Cloudera, etc)
- Expertise in data modeling, lineage, access, and its governance
- Experience creating and reviewing technical and user-focused documentation for data solutions (data models, data dictionaries, business glossaries, process and data flows, architecture diagrams, etc.)
- Experience working closely with the Data Science teams to improve actionable data.
- Proven experience building, growing, inspiring, and retaining a collaborative team of managers and engineers.
- Strong ability to support and mentor team members to accomplish team goals.
Benefits & Perks
• Competitive salary
• 100% individual and dependent medical + dental + vision coverage
• 401(k) with 4% company match
• 20 days PTO + Kandji Wellness Week off the first week of August
• 14 paid holidays per year
• 10 sick/wellness days per year
• Equity for full-time employees
• $1,000 virtual card for comfortable remote working equipment
• 12 weeks paid leave for new parents
• Cell phone & Internet stipend
• Work from anywhere in the United States and Canada!
• Exciting opportunities for career growth
• An outstanding, inclusive culture
We are excited to be serving a significant need for a fast-growing market, and are proud of the high-performing team we have brought together so far. If you’re someone who wants to engage in new, exciting projects that will challenge your skills in the best way possible, we would love to connect with you.
At Kandji we believe in fostering an inclusive environment in which employees feel encouraged to share their unique perspectives, leverage their strengths, and act authentically. We know that diverse teams are strong teams, and welcome those from all backgrounds and varying experiences.
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