Venice.ai - Staff Data Engineer

• Expert-level SQL and relational database knowledge. Strong PostgreSQL focus. • Deep experience with data modeling, schema design, and database architecture. • Strong understanding of data integrity, quality, lineage, observability, and governance. • Experience establishing canonical datasets and company-wide metric definitions. • Strong understanding of database performance, indexing, optimization, and scalability. • Experience integrating data across complex product and business systems. • Ability to navigate an existing data environment, understand how it evolved, and thoughtfully improve it without unnecessarily rebuilding everything. • Strong technical judgment and the ability to make architectural decisions with incomplete information. • Ability to communicate complex data concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • High ownership and comfort operating with significant autonomy. • Experience building semantic layers, metrics layers, or self-service analytics infrastructure. • Experience enabling LLMs or AI agents to reliably query structured company data. • Experience designing systems for high-volume API, inference, usage, or event data. • Experience with financial, billing, revenue, or other datasets where reconciliation and accuracy are critical. • Experience with real-time or streaming data architectures. • Experience in AI, crypto, or high-growth technical environments.