Director, Data Platform Engineering

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Director, Data Platform Engineering San Francisco, CA USA Your Impact at LILA Lila is seeking a highly motivated and experienced engineering leader to lead a team responsible for our Lila's product data platform. You will own the data platform and infrastructure end-to-end - architecture, delivery, reliability, and developer/data scientist experience. Our mission is to deliver Scientific Super Intelligence through a reliable, scalable, and self-service infrastructure for data ingestion, storage, processing, and interaction - enabling AI/ML, product teams, and scientists to build data-intensive applications with confidence and speed. Our platform supports analytical and machine learning workloads across Lila, serving autonomous DBTL cycles, instrument data pipelines, and AI inference workflows. You will be responsible for building and leading a team of talented engineers, driving technical strategy, and ensuring the scalability and performance of our data management and data serving capabilities of our Data Platform. You will work closely with data scientists, data engineers, lab scientists, and product teams to understand their needs and deliver innovative solutions that leverage the power of cutting edge data processing technologies. What You'll Be Building - Team Leadership: Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing team of 8-12 data engineering experts. Evaluate and adopt modern data infrastructure - including real-time streaming (Kafka, Flink), columnar engines (DuckDB, ClickHouse), lake house, and cloud-native object storage architectures; Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement; Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members, promoting their professional growth; Conduct performance reviews, provide feedback, and identify opportunities for training and development; Manage

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