Sierra Ventures

Sierra Ventures

Software Engineer, Agent Data Platform

San Francisco, CA · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 46 days ago
TypeScriptGoScalaReactDistributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentSnowflakePlatform EngineeringAPI DevelopmentKafkaMachine LearningSparkData EngineeringData VisualizationAgentic AIA/B TestingSalesforceExcelAR/VRMentoring

About the role

  • Our co-founders are Bret Taylor https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettaylor/ and Clay Bavor https://www.linkedin.com/in/claybavor/.
  • Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI.
  • Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps.

Responsibilities

  • You'll join a full-stack data team building the systems making our AI agents measurably smarter with every interaction, building the real-time pipelines, analytics products, and deep personalization primitives that turn millions of conversations into business outcomes.
  • Data Foundations: Architect and build our core platform to handle data at scale with low latency.
  • You will own the systems for interactive OLAP querying, orchestration, and experimentation, ensuring our data is trustworthy, fast, and easy to use for the entire organization.
  • You will develop the systems for long-term agent memory, build reusable Customer Data Platform (CDP) primitives, and implement the optimization loops that allow our agents to personalize interactions and demonstrably lift business outcomes.
  • You're well-versed in data modeling best practices (dimensional modeling, star/snowflake schemas, slowly changing dimensions) and know how to optimize analytical query patterns for both traditional OLAP systems and modern cloud data warehouses.
  • Strong software engineering background with 4-7+ years of hands-on development experience in building and shipping production systems or products.
  • We build trust in AI by making it more accessible, safe, and useful.
  • We build trust with each other by showing up for each other professionally and personally, creating an environment that enables all of us to do our best work.
  • We believe that our work and culture are better when we encourage, support, and respect different skills and experiences represented within our team.

Requirements

  • You have a history of implementing pragmatic data governance, lineage, and testing.
  • You have a portfolio of shipped data products, including analytics dashboards, data visualization tools, or alerting and exploration systems.
  • You have strong product sense around information architecture, handling empty states, and making complex data explainable.
  • You have practical experience with ML-powered product features, such as personalization, recommendations, or classification systems.
  • Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Deep experience with event streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis) and real-time data processing.
  • Experience with modern data visualization libraries (e.g., ECharts, D3.js) and the principles of building performant, reusable charting components for complex data.
  • Production experience with recommender systems or optimization loops (e.g., multi-armed bandits, ranking).
  • A track record of leading complex technical projects or mentoring other engineers.

Compensation

  • These benefits are further detailed in Sierra's policies, may vary by region, and are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefits plans.

Benefits

  • We want our benefits to reflect our values and offer the following to full-time employees:
  • Flexible (unlimited) paid time off
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
  • Life insurance and disability benefits
  • Retirement plan dependent on country of employment
  • Parental leave
  • Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
  • Discretionary benefit stipend giving people the ability to spend where it matters most
  • These benefits are further detailed in Sierra's policies, may vary by region, and are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefits plans.
  • Eligible full-time employees can participate in Sierra's equity plans subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies.

Company info

  • At Sierra, we're creating a platform to help businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices in Atlanta, New York, London, Paris, Madrid, Munich, Singapore, Tokyo, and Sydney.
  • We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and Family. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do.
  • Our co-founders are Bret Taylor https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettaylor/ and Clay Bavor https://www.linkedin.com/in/claybavor/. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google's AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace.
  • At Sierra, we're creating a platform to help businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI.
  • We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices in Atlanta, New York, London, Paris, Madrid, Munich, Singapore, Tokyo, and Sydney.
  • We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and Family.
  • These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do.
  • Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook.
  • Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs.
  • Earlier, he started and led Google's AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens.
  • Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace.

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