Senior Data Systems Engineer

New York Cityfull timeOn Site

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senior

$200k–$231k

H1B: no

January Senior Data Systems Engineer at January owns the data foundation that powers consumer credit decisions, designing scalable, trusted data pipelines. The role involves setting standards for data quality and collaborating with multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

We're hiring our first data systems engineer. Data is the most valuable thing January has: 20 million consumers, $20 billion in debt, and every record behind them. Every decision we make about a consumer starts with our data.
As we grow our business, it’s critical that our data system scales with it. The data that powers collections now has to power every stage of consumer credit. You'll decide what that foundation looks like and how it grows.
This is a blank page. What gets built, in what order, and how this function interacts with downstream consumers is yours to decide. You'll set the standard for how we treat our data: trusted by default, understood by everyone who touches it, and increasingly able to look after itself.
Engineers, analysts, ops, and product all depend on what you build. You'll set the standards that let them make good calls on data without you in the room.
You thrive on obsessing over data quality and infrastructure, and you move fast to improve both.
You've built and owned a data pipeline end to end.
You design for failure. Safe replayability, recovery that self heals where possible and has a clear runbook when it doesn’t
You treat data quality as a key indicator of pipeline health
You can own migrating a legacy system into a durable data pipeline by identifying the highest impact opportunities first, and you know when to build vs. buy.
You've collaborated with multiple stakeholders/data consumers, with an ability to manage asks and hold boundaries where they need to be held
You draw ownership lines through writing and influence instead of authority, and explain tradeoffs equally well to engineers and non-engineers.
You already use AI deeply in your own work and want to go further, including by architecting systems that repair themselves.