Director, Data Platform
Lead data engineering, analytics engineering, and data science teams while owning the architecture and roadmap of Polymarket's data platform. Establish standards for trustworthy data, oversee ingestion and modeling, make tooling decisions, manage scalability and costs, and build operating practices for the organization.
Responsibilities
- Lead, hire, and develop data engineers, analytics engineers, and data scientists
- Own the data platform architecture and roadmap from ingestion through the modeled layer
- Set standards for modeling, testing, freshness SLAs, incident response, and dataset ownership
- Partner with engineering on instrumentation and on-chain data ingestion
- Prioritize platform work with analytics leaders and business stakeholders
- Make orchestration, transformation, warehouse, and BI tooling decisions
- Manage platform cost, performance, and scalability
- Build planning, on-call, review, and documentation practices
Requirements
- 10+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data science, including 4+ years managing
- Experience leading a multidisciplinary data team
- Strong technical foundation in data models, architecture, and query plans
- Production experience with Airflow, dbt, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, or ClickHouse
- Experience with AWS or GCP
- Experience improving data quality
- Experience building teams
- Experience operating in a fast-moving environment
- Familiarity with on-chain data ingestion or blockchain infrastructure is a plus
- Experience supporting finance or regulatory reporting is a plus
- Experience in fintech, crypto, prediction markets, or other data-intensive financial products is a plus
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Unlimited PTO
- Full health, vision, and dental coverage
- 401k match
- New MacBook Pro, big display, and accessories