Tech Lead, Data & Inference Engineer
Catalyst Labs3 days ago
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Summary
Catalyst Labs is seeking a Tech Lead, Data & Inference Engineer to join their team in San Francisco. The role involves leading the design, development, and scaling of an end-to-end data platform to enhance business insights.
About the Role
As a Tech Lead, Data & Inference Engineer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining scalable data pipelines, ensuring data reliability and performance, and operating inference pipelines that enrich data. You will guide architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and promote data-driven best practices across the organization.
About You
Required:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Mathematics.
- 6 to 12 years of experience building and scaling production-grade data systems.
- Expert SQL and Python skills.
- Hands-on experience with distributed data technologies (Spark, Flink, Kafka) and modern orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect).
Preferred:
- Familiarity with dbt, DuckDB, and the modern data stack.
- Experience with IaC, CI/CD, and observability.
- Exposure to Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Strong Node.js skills for faster onboarding and system integration.
- Previous experience at a high-growth startup (10 to 200 people) or early-stage environment.
Benefits
- Above market base salary plus bonus and equity.
- Opportunity to work in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
Catalyst Labs
Welcome to Catalyst Labs – Powering Catalytic Growth At Catalyst Labs, catalytic growth isn't just a concept, it's our driving force. Our mission is to help businesses soar to new heights by recruiting exceptional talent. Hiring and recruitment is a long, tedious and a costly process. Your organization's employees are one of THE determining factors whether you will stagnate or grow. We have time and time again made it cheaper, faster and most importantly an exciting process for our clients. Our services are always offered with market insights and with a consultative mind set on streamlining your internal talent processes, so that you have access to the best talent that will help you grow.
Santa Clara, CA