Tech Lead Manager

About Select Star:

Select Star is a data catalog and discovery platform built for modern enterprises. Our platform automatically catalogs & documents database tables and BI dashboards, providing actionable intelligence for our customers in 24 hrs. With Select Star, you can find out where your data is coming from, which dashboards are built on top of it, who is using the data, and how they are using it.

We're currently a Series A company, backed by some of the best early-stage tech investors like Lightspeed Venture Partners, Bowery Capital, Background Capital, and prominent angel investors (Spencer Kimball, Scott Belsky, Nick Caldwell, and more).

Top data teams from businesses like Opendoor, Pitney Bowes, Vivino, Electric.ai and more are relying on Select Star to understand their data. We're starting to see strong traction in the market and are looking to build out our team to help us scale.

The Role:

We're looking for an experienced engineer to lead our data platform infrastructure. This role would included driving technical architecture, contributing code, reviewing PRs, estimating and planning product implementations and more. At its core, we are looking for a dependable technology partner for our application & product teams

What we're looking for:

• 5+ years of experience working as a full-stack engineer
• 2+ years of experience working as an analytics engineer, data engineer or software engineer or with internal/external data platform tools
• 2+ years of experience working as a tech lead or engineering manager role
• Advanced understanding and hands-on experience with Python/Django, databases, distributed systems, microservices, analytics engineering tools like: Snowflake, Kafka, Airflow, dbt, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Intermediate to advanced experience using AWS & managing AWS infrastructure
• Self starter with excellent communication skills
• Comfortable working rapidly and independently
• Prior early-stage startup experience is a plus
• Experience in DevOps or Security is a plus

Benefits

We love working at Select Star and think you would too Some of the benefits include:

• Remote first company - work from wherever you like
• Full medical benefits
• $1,000 annual stipend to improve your WFH set-up however you see fit
• Competitive compensation (including equity)

Our Values

• Be open and transparent - we share the good and the bad. We're working towards a common goal and support each other along the way
• Be an owner - we have high standards and expect everyone to be responsible for upholding them
• Be practical - things will change, and that's ok. Prioritize, execute, evaluate and plan. Then do it again

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