Attio
Technology
DataEngineeringLead
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“Data Engineering Lead at Attio. Skills: Data Engineering, Data Architecture, Technical Leadership. Build core data infrastructure. Stabilize core data infrastructure”
What You'll Achieve.
Enable better decision-making; Shape future data capability; Improve reliability; Reduce operational risk; Improve trust in data; Support experimentation; Support analytics; Support operational reporting
Industry & Context.
Solving complex infrastructure challenges; Bringing structure to ambiguity; Translating business problems; Translating technical implementation; Quantitative reasoning; Root cause analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Deep hands-on experience designing data infrastructure, Deep hands-on experience maintaining data infrastructure, Deep hands-on experience designing pipelines, Deep hands-on experience maintaining pipelines, Deep hands-on experience designing transformation layers, Deep hands-on experience maintaining transformation layers, Experience within cloud-native environments, Startup or scale-up experience, Operated within fast-moving product environments, Operated within fast-moving engineering environments, Understand balancing speed, ambiguity, technical quality, Able to move between business problems and technical implementation, Able to translate business problems to technical implementation, Able to translate technical implementation to business problems, Quantitative reasoning, High ownership and autonomy, Comfortable operating as senior IC, Experience being responsible for problems end-to-end, Experience driving problems to resolution, Pragmatic technical leadership, Able to bring structure to unclear problem spaces, Able to bring prioritisation to unclear problem spaces, Communicate effectively with technical stakeholders, Communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders, Influence decisions across the business, Commercial and operational awareness, Bias for action, Move with urgency, Enjoy solving difficult problems, Comfortable operating strategically, Comfortable rolling up sleeves and building directly
Nice to Have
Experience with BigQuery, Experience with DBT, Experience with Snowflake, Experience with Python ecosystems, Experience with equivalent ecosystems
What You'll Do.
Build core data infrastructure
Stabilize core data infrastructure
Design reliable pipelines
Build reliable pipelines
Maintain reliable pipelines
Design scalable pipelines
Build scalable pipelines
Maintain scalable pipelines
Ensure data flows correctly
Support operational workflows
Support reporting workflows
Improve data reliability
Improve data observability
Improve quality of data infrastructure
Improve resilience of data infrastructure
Improve maintainability of data infrastructure
Reduce operational risk
Improve trust in data
Shape data platform evolution
Define data platform evolution
Balance business needs with scalability
Create foundational datasets
Create transformations
Create infrastructure for experimentation
Create infrastructure for analytics
Create infrastructure for operational reporting
Bring clarity within ambiguity
Bring direction within ambiguity
Take loosely defined problems
Create clear plans of execution
Drive outcomes with ownership
Drive outcomes with autonomy
Contribute toward defining best practices
Contribute toward defining technical standards
Contribute toward defining longer-term hiring plans
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with Product; Partner with Engineering; Partner with business stakeholders; Work with business; Communicate with stakeholders
Communication Scope
Communicate effectively; Influence decisions
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning, Prioritisation
Full Job Description
Attio is the CRM built for the AI era. Designed for the most ambitious go-to-market teams, it gives companies the power to understand every customer, automate at scale, and build their go-to-market motion exactly as they need. We've raised $116M from some of the world's best investors: GV (Google Ventures), Redpoint, Balderton, Point Nine, and 01A. We hire builders who thrive on complex technical challenges, hold themselves to a high bar, and genuinely care about delighting the people who use what they build. The team here brings sharp judgement, real craft, and the drive to do exceptional work. We're obsessed about the details and energized by the frontier. If you want to do the best work of your career, this is the right place. ABOUT THE ROLE Our Engineering team tackles the toughest challenges, so our users never have to. Real-time infrastructure, AI-native architecture, and a frontend that feels effortless — all powered by a team that moves fast, thinks rigorously, and holds an exceptionally high bar for quality. We’re hiring Attio’s first dedicated Data Engineering Lead to build the infrastructure, pipelines and standards that enable the company to operate on reliable, trusted data at scale. As our inaugural Lead Data Engineer, you’ll own and evolve our internal data platform end-to-end — improving reliability, enabling better decision-making, and shaping the long-term foundations of data across the business. Your work will directly support teams across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Finance and Go-To-Market. We see this as far more than a traditional Data Engineering role. It’s an opportunity to define and shape Attio’s future data capability from the ground up — operating as a highly hands-on senior IC initially, whilst helping establish the foundations, standards and strategic roadmap for how the broader data function evolves over time. The role is ideally suited to someone who enjoys bringing structure to ambiguity, solving complex infrastructure challeng
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