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Our platform orchestrates across martech stacks, workflows, and people to automate marketing execution, cutting execution time, so marketers focus on the work only humans can do: shaping brands, understanding customers, and creating the work that moves people.\nBacked by leading investors, we’re building software that adapts to the user, not the other way around. We move with urgency, operate with ownership, and solve hard problems from first principles. If you want to do ambitious work, take real responsibility, and help define the future of AI-native content operations, you’ll do your best work here.\nThe Role\nAs a Staff Software Engineer, Data at Gradial, you will be our first dedicated data platform engineer, owning the platform end to end while staying deeply hands-on. You will shape the data layer behind our product, from Postgres data modeling and multimodal indexing and search to the pipelines that keep large, fast-changing enterprise content in sync across images, PDFs, text and other document types.\nYour ownership will also extend to the company-wide data platform, including the warehouse and self-serve exploration tools that help teams across engineering and go-to-market make better decisions from reliable data. You will decide what to build first, build it and shape how Gradial uses data as we scale.\nWhat You’ll Own\nDefine and execute the roadmap for Gradial’s data platform across product, engineering and company-wide data needs.\nOwn data modeling for our production databases, designing schemas and access patterns that scale with the product.\nLead the evolution of multimodal indexing and search across images, documents and text, with a focus on retrieval quality, performance and reliability.\nBuild and own reliable data pipelines across production databases, product events and third-party systems.\nBuild the warehouse, governed metrics and self-serve tooling that help teams answer their own questions with confidence.\nInstrument the customer lifecycle from first lead through delivered value, giving teams a clear view into how customers move through the Gradial platform.\nSet the standard for data quality, contracts and observability as our product and data surface area grow.\nMake pragmatic architecture and build-vs-buy decisions that balance speed, scalability and cost.\nWhat We’re Looking For\n8+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering or related roles with ownership of complex data systems. You've chosen the stack, not only operated one.\nProven success defining and building data architecture in fast-moving, high-growth environments.\nDeep expertise in relational database design, including schemas, indexing, query patterns and consistency tradeoffs.\nStrong experience building production data pipelines, warehouses and analytical data models.\nExperience building production search systems, including embedding-based or hybrid retrieval and evaluating retrieval quality.\nA track record of shipping reliable production code and making sound architecture decisions across complex systems.\nStrong judgment in ambiguous environments, with the ability to prioritize, make pragmatic tradeoffs and build without an established playbook.\nAbility to work effectively across engineering, leadership and non-technical teams to turn business needs into durable data systems.\nNice to Have\nExperience as an early data hire at a high-growth B2B SaaS or AI-native company.\nExperience with multimodal retrieval, LLM or agent data infrastructure.\nExperience building data foundations for customer and revenue analytics in B2B SaaS.\nThe salary range for this position is$190,000 - $240,000 annually. 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We’re excited by candidates who thoughtfully apply AI tools in their work, but during interviews we’re focused on you. This is your opportunity to show how you think, communicate, and solve problems. Over-reliance on AI-generated responses during the interview process (especially when it obscures your own voice) will result in disqualification. We want to understand your unique perspective and how you approach challenges, both with and without AI.\nGradial is dedicated to creating an environment where diverse perspectives are valued and all team members can grow. 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