Director of Engineering, Data

BuildOps, Los Angeles

The role

Data sits at the center of BuildOps' AI first strategy. The operational data our customers generate on BuildOps is a long term advantage, but only if it is clean, reliable, and well governed. As Director of Engineering, Data, you will build and lead our unified Data & AI engineering function. You will own the platforms, pipelines, quality standards, and operating discipline that power AI and ML products and help customers trust BuildOps as their system of record.

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Director of Engineering, Data

BuildOps, Los Angeles

Posted pay

$198K–$265K

a year

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Median: $238K a year
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Location: Los Angeles
Work type: Hybrid
Level: Director+, manager
Experience: 10+ years
Skills in the job text: AWS
Airflow
Databricks
dbt
Kafka
Snowflake
Posted: 22 days ago
Last check: 3 days ago
Job type: Software engineering, Inference & ML systems, ML / AI engineering

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What We Look For

10+ years in data or software engineering, including experience building and scaling teams of 10+ engineers, with a track record of hiring well, growing leaders, and leading through managers as well as individual contributors
Deep hands on experience with modern data platforms, including a cloud warehouse or lakehouse such as Snowflake or Databricks, dbt and ELT patterns, orchestration tools like Airflow, and streaming technologies such as Kafka or Kinesis, with AWS experience strongly preferred
Direct experience building data systems that support production ML use cases, not just analytics, with an understanding of feature stores, training data, real time inference, and the tradeoffs involved in building versus buying ML platform capabilities
A track record of operational excellence in data, including monitoring, SLAs, incident response, and data quality practices applied with the same rigor as customer facing systems
Experience delivering customer facing data products such as reporting, analytics, or APIs in B2B SaaS environments where performance, reliability, and trust matter
Strong architectural judgment, including when to build, when to buy, how to design for change, and how to sequence investments behind validated needs instead of overbuilding
A pragmatic approach to governance, with security and compliance built in, documentation and contracts that stay current, and access models that balance control with self service
Early stage or scale up experience in Series B through D companies is a plus, and experience in vertical SaaS or construction tech is helpful but not required

Who You Are

A builder who is comfortable with ambiguity and greenfield work, and can move quickly, ship an MVP, and still make sound decisions for long term scale
Both hands on and strategic, willing to write code, debug issues, and carry operational responsibility when needed while maintaining a clear multi year vision
You know how to influence across Product, Engineering, GTM, Finance, and the executive team, build trust, communicate clearly, and push back when priorities are misaligned
Able to translate technical decisions into business impact and business goals into technical direction
You have seen this stage of growth before and know what good looks like in a high growth data organization

Director of Engineering, Data

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