{"id":2650210,"url":"https://alion.io/job/venice-staff-data-engineer","title":"Staff Data Engineer","company":{"id":719973,"name":"Venice","domain":"venice.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/venice-2","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"Data Science","role_family":"Data Science","seniority":"staff","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":156000,"max_usd":269000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":104},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-15T18:50:17Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-15","last_verified_at":"2026-10-17T01:48:46Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"About Us \nVenice si the world's leading consumer AI company built on principles of privacy, free speech, and user sovereignty. \nWe’re building the Port City of AI, in which millions of individuals and AI agents gather, interact, and access sophisticated AI resources on a private and permissive foundation. \nJoining Venice means joining a team of unorthodox builders who believe in moving quickly, delivering a beautiful mass-market consumer product that doesn’t spy on people or censor their ideas and questions., If you’re energized by big ideas, entrepreneurial spirit, individual empowerment, and the opportunity to help shape a fast-growing company in the world’s hottest industry from the ground up, please reach out.\nAbout the Role\nVenice has a lot of data. The data exists! The opportunity is making it organized, connected, accessible, and unquestionably trustworthy. \nThe north star for this role is simple: Anyone at Venice should be able to query our data, get an answer, and feel confident that the answer is correct. We're looking for a Staff Database Engineer to contribute to the architecture and technical foundation of how data is structured and used across Venice.\nYou'll take a broad view of our data ecosystem: understanding where data originates, how it moves, how it's modeled, where inconsistencies exist, and how we establish reliable sources of truth.\nThis is an individual contributor role with significant technical ownership. You'll contribute to standards, architectural decisions, solve ambiguous data problems, and partner across Engineering, Product, Finance, Growth, and Operations to build a data foundation that scales with Venice.\nWhat You'll Contribute\nData Architecture\nThe architecture and evolution of Venice's data infrastructure.\nDevelop a deep understanding of our existing databases, schemas, pipelines, and data dependencies.\nDesign scalable data models and schemas that make complex information intuitive and queryable.\nDetermine how data from different systems should be connected, normalized, and represented.\nIdentify architectural gaps and drive improvements across the data stack.\nData Integrity & Trust\nEstablish systems that ensure our data is accurate, complete, consistent, and explainable.\nBuild validation, reconciliation, testing, and monitoring into the data lifecycle.\nIdentify and eliminate conflicting definitions and duplicate sources of truth.\nEstablish canonical datasets and definitions for financial reports and critical business metrics.\nCreate clear data lineage so we understand where numbers originate and how they were calculated.\nOperational environment & Infrastructure Goals.\nTens of thousand SQL statements per second\nMost of them deliberately single statement transactions\nThousands of balance affecting statements a second\nWorking towards a single PostgresSQL DB, with replicas for BI, trying to stay SQL centric as long as possible.\nInevitable outgrow of the single PostgreSQL DB is planned to be addressed with scaling horizontally sharding on accounts.\n5-15% growth month over month on DB statement count and storage.\nSignificant server side SQL (views, functions, etc) with custom test tools \nYou will join a SQL focused team of engineers with high throughput finance background and deep ORM authorship and thus SQL generation experience. Note we are phasing out ORM usage for maximum SQL flexibility.\nGCP CloudSQL with all its operational benefits and restrictions. \nAverage active sessions (AAS) around 3-4, stable despite the ongoing growth have experienced. \nYou should naturally ask: \"How do we know this number is right?\" And then build the infrastructure that lets us answer that question.\nQueryability & Access\nMake it dramatically easier for people across Venice to answer questions with data. Including:\nDesigning data structures optimized for both analytical and operational use cases.\nImproving query performance and reliability.\nCreating intuitive schemas and documentation.\nBuilding or supporting semantic and metrics layers.\nEnabling AI- and natural-language-based querying of company data.\nEstablishing appropriate permissions and access controls.\nOur goal isn't simply to make data technically accessible. It should be understandable and trustworthy enough that people can actually use it to make decisions.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nSuccess isn't simply having cleaner databases. It's creating a company where:\nCritical metrics have clear, agreed-upon definitions.\nThere is an obvious source of truth for important data.\nWe understand where data came from and how it was transformed.\nData quality issues are detected automatically rather than discovered in meetings.\nEngineers can confidently build against our data infrastructure.\nNon-engineering teams can answer more questions without needing an engineer to investigate.\nAI tools can safely and reliably query well-structured company data.\nTwo people asking the same question get the same answer.\nUltimately:\nAsk a question → query the data → get the answer → trust the answer.\nWhat We're Looking For\nSignificant experience designing and operating data systems at scale.\nExpert-level SQL and relational database knowledge. 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