Mudflap

Mudflap

Staff Data Engineer, Tech Lead

Palo Alto, CA · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$243k-$285kDetected 8 days ago
PythonDistributed SystemsSQLBigQuerySnowflakeRedshiftDatabricksMachine LearningAirflowdbtData EngineeringData ScienceProject ManagementAgileLogisticsLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

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Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role80
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70

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About the role

  • Mudflap is on a mission to transform the trucking and logistics industry by leveling the playing field for owner operators and small fleets.
  • Our core team hails from Disney, Uber, Procore, DoorDash, Google, Meta, Capital One, Affirm and Brex.
  • Here are the core values that we believe in and look for in new teammates:

Responsibilities

  • Act as the overall technical leader for the data engineering, owning architecture direction, setting standards, and making the design decisions that unblock the team.
  • Lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives end to end - scoping the problem, sequencing the work, and driving it to delivery. Partner with manager on team and project management processes, from sprint planning to team processes.
  • Drive organization-wide technical alignment, representing data in staff engineering leadership forums and partnering with engineering leaders across the company on shared initiatives.
  • Design and optimize system-wide data architecture to support analytics, agentic, and operational use cases at scale.
  • Partner with product, engineering, analytics, compliance, and business functions (Operations, Finance, Risk, etc.) to align data architecture with business and regulatory needs.
  • Mentor other engineers, leading by example in code quality, architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and effective use of AI tooling.
  • Drive adoption of modern tooling for orchestration, lineage tracking, and cataloging to improve platform robustness and usability.
  • Own data governance strategy, including data quality, metadata management, lineage, and compliance with security and privacy requirements.
  • Opportunities and support for major career growth
  • Backed by top-tier venture investors, including QED, Matrix Partners, Commerce Ventures, NFX, and 500 Startups and included in the Forbes Fintech 50 list, Mudflap offers fleet fuel management solutions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science (or related technical field)
  • 8+ years of data engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in senior or staff-level roles.
  • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted and agentic engineering, with a clear point of view on where agents create leverage in data work and where they don't.
  • Proven expertise in data ingestion frameworks (batch and streaming)
  • Deep experience with cloud-native data platforms (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or Redshift).
  • Hands-on knowledge of data governance frameworks (quality checks, lineage, cataloging, security, compliance).
  • Strong understanding of data warehouse methodologies, dimensional and normalized modeling, and distributed system design.
  • Experience with orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect) and metadata/catalog platforms (dbt, DataHub, Amundsen, or similar).
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills, with a track record of mentoring engineers and influencing cross-functional stakeholders and senior leaders.

Compensation

  • Annual Company offsite event (Mudfest!)
  • The base salary range for this role is $243,000 - $285,000.
  • This information reflects a base salary range for this position based on current market data, which may be subject to change as new market data becomes available.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity in a high-growth startup
  • Multiple health benefit options
  • Responsible Time Off

Company info

  • Commuter benefits to ease your travel
  • Lunches and snacks to keep you fueled
  • A collaborative, high-growth environment where you'll work closely with talented teammates across the company
  • We deeply understand customer needs and put our customers at the center of everything we do
  • Be a creative problem solver who pushes past roadblocks to win for our customers and our teammates
  • Company Overview (Who we are):
  • Be Customer Obsessed: We deeply understand customer needs and put our customers at the center of everything we do
  • Find a Way: Be a creative problem solver who pushes past roadblocks to win for our customers and our teammates
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