DataHub

Senior Platform Engineer

DataHub  •  $225k - $300k/yr  •  Palo Alto, CA (Hybrid)  •  3 months ago
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Job Description

DataHub is an AI & Data Context Platform adopted by over 3,000 enterprises, including Apple, CVS Health, Netflix, and Visa. Innovated jointly with a thriving open-source community of 13,000+ members, DataHub's metadata graph provides in-depth context of AI and data assets with best-in-class scalability and extensibility.

The company's enterprise SaaS offering, DataHub Cloud, delivers a fully managed solution with AI-powered discovery, observability, and governance capabilities. Organizations rely on DataHub solutions to accelerate time-to-value from their data investments, ensure AI system reliability, and implement unified governance, enabling AI & data to work together and bring order to data chaos.

The Challenge

As AI and data products become business-critical, enterprises face a metadata crisis:

  • No unified way to track the complex data supply chain feeding AI systems
  • Engineering teams struggling with data discovery, lineage, and governance
  • Organizations needing machine-scale metadata management, not just human-browsable catalogs

Why This Matters

This is where infrastructure meets impact. The metadata layer you'll build will directly power the next generation of AI systems at massive scale. Your code will determine how safely and effectively thousands of organizations deploy AI, affecting millions of users worldwide.

The Role

We're looking for an exceptional Python engineer to lead development of DataHub's ingestion framework – the core that connects diverse data systems and powers our metadata collection capabilities.

You'll Build

  • Scalable, fault-tolerant ingestion systems for enterprise-scale metadata
  • Clean, intuitive APIs for our connector ecosystem
  • Event-driven architectures for real-time metadata processing
  • Schema mapping between diverse systems and DataHub's unified model
  • Versioning systems for AI assets (training data, model weights, embeddings)

You Have

  • 4+ years building production-grade distributed systems
  • Advanced Python expertise with a focus on API design
  • Experience with high-scale data processing or integration frameworks
  • Strong systems knowledge and distributed architecture experience
  • A track record of solving complex technical challenges

Bonus Points

  • Experience with DataHub or similar metadata/ETL frameworks (Airflow, Airbyte, dbt)
  • Open-source contributions
  • Early-stage startup experience

Location and Compensation

Bay Area (hybrid, 3 days in Palo Alto office)

Salary Range: $225,000 to $300,000

Benefits and Perks

We invest in people so they can do their best work and enjoy doing it. Our benefits reflect the way we build: practical, thoughtful, and designed to support long-term growth.

Competitive compensation

We offer salaries that reflect your skills, experience, and the impact you make. You bring value—we make sure you're recognized for it.

Equity for everyone

Every team member receives an ownership stake in the company. When we grow, you grow with us.

Remote Work

All roles are remote unless otherwise specified in the job description. Review the job description to confirm if the role you are interested in is remote or hybrid.

Location flexibility

Home office, coworking space, or something in between? We support your ideal setup. You’ll receive a monthly coworking stipend to use whenever you need a change of pace or in-person collaboration time.

Comprehensive health coverage

Your well-being matters. We cover 99% of medical, dental, and vision premiums employees, and 65% for dependents.

Flexible savings accounts

We offer FSAs to help cover planned or unexpected healthcare costs. You can also opt into a Dependent Care FSA to support family needs.

Support for every path to parenthood

Through Carrot Fertility, we provide inclusive fertility benefits and family-forming support. All U.S. employees have access, regardless of age, gender identity, or family structure.

Time off that works for you

We trust you to take the time you need. Our unlimited PTO and sick leave policy is designed for flexibility, rest, and real life.

Why Join Us

DataHub is at a rare inflection point: we’ve achieved product-market fit, earned the trust of leading enterprises, and secured backing from top-tier investors like Bessemer Venture Partners and 8VC. The context platform market is expected to grow from $1B to $9B in the next five years—and we’re leading the way.

By joining our team, you’ll:

  • Tackle high-impact challenges at the heart of enterprise AI infrastructure
  • Ship production systems that power real-world use cases at global scale
  • Collaborate with a high-caliber team of builders who’ve scaled some of the most influential data tools in the world
  • Build the next generation of AI-native data systems, including conversational agents, intelligent classification, automated governance, and more

If you're passionate about technology, enjoy working with customers, and want to be part of a fast-growing company changing the industry, we want to hear from you!

DataHub

About DataHub

Founded by data industry veterans and backed by LinkedIn, DataHub enables organizations to deploy AI in production through an enterprise-grade metadata platform handling 3M+ PyPI downloads monthly. Leveraging our extensible metadata graph architecture with lineage-driven compliance and API-first design, we've built a unified system for technical teams requiring production-grade discovery, observability, and governance. Our dual solutions—open-source DataHub Core and fully-managed DataHub Cloud—provide what enterprises need for continuous AI & data asset management at scale. DataHub is a unique solution in this space with the following key differentiators:

* Scalability: DataHub offers best-in-class enterprise-grade scalability in connecting to over 80 data sources, offering an embeddable connector framework, and ingesting large volumes and high velocity of metadata.

* Extensibility: DataHub’s highly extensible metadata model offers easy flexibility in adapting to an organization’s unique data landscape, entities, relationships, ownership, and custom metadata descriptors.

* Completeness: DataHub Cloud’s unified platform adds AI-based enhancements and automations for discovery & understanding, quality management, and collaborative governance, allowing users to confidently use and manage data and AI assets.

* Ease of Adoption: Customers of DataHub benefit from the joint innovation, peer support, and growing skill base of an energized community of over 13,000 DataHub practitioners. Its user-friendly interface has a powerful and intuitive design, making it easier for users to navigate and utilize its features without extensive training. The managed service of DataHub Cloud offers dedicated support, improved performance and availability, and secure deployment options to ease adoption across an enterprise.

For engineering teams deploying AI in production, DataHub delivers unified metadata infrastructure across all AI & data assets with enterprise-grade performance.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California
Year Founded
2021
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