Job Description
- Set the technical direction for Lytx's cloud data warehouse and lakehouse platform, balancing performance, cost, and reliability at scale.
- Design data models, pipelines, and storage layers that support analytics, reporting, and machine learning across the business.
- Partner with data engineering, analytics, product, and AI teams to translate business needs into platform capabilities.
- Lead complex, cross-team technical initiatives from design through delivery, and represent the data platform in architecture reviews.
- Improve data quality, governance, and observability so teams can trust the data they build on.
- Raise the bar on engineering practices through code review, design documents, and mentorship of engineers at all levels.
- Evaluate and introduce new tools and approaches where they solve a real problem, not for their own sake.
- Support the platform's ability to scale with Lytx's data volumes, including current data from AI safety features.

What We're Looking For
- 10+ years of experience in data engineering,



with a track record of designing and operating large-scale data warehouse or lakehouse platforms in production.
- Deep hands-on experience with a modern cloud data warehouse (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift) and distributed data processing (e.g., Spark).
- Strong SQL and Python skills, and experience building and maintaining data transformation pipelines (e.g., dbt, Airflow, or similar orchestration tools).
- Solid understanding of data modeling, warehouse design patterns, and the tradeoffs between batch and streaming architectures.
- Experience operating data infrastructure on a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- A history of leading technical projects across teams and influencing architecture decisions without direct authority.
- Clear written and verbal communication — you can explain a complex data model to both an engineer and a business stakeholder.
- A bias toward pragmatic solutions: you know when to build f

📌 Staff Data Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Lytx
📍 Bengaluru