Job Url: https://www.remoterocketship.com/company/alt-xyz/jobs/director-of-engineering-%E2%80%94-data-automation-analytics-united-states-remote Job Description: ALT Website LinkedIn All Job Openings At ALT, we’re on a mission to unlock the value of alternative assets, and looking for talented people who share our vision. 51 - 200 employees Director of Engineering — Data, Automation & Analytics 4 hours ago 🇺🇸 United States – Remote 💵 $188k - $215k / year ⏰ Full Time 🔴 Lead 🖥 Software Engineer 🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor Airflow AWS ETL Python SQL Tableau Terraform Vault Apply Now Receive Emails with Similar Jobs Report problem 📋 Description • Data Platform & Pipelines • Own all ETL/ELT from external marketplaces and partners (listings and sold history data). Deliver coverage, freshness, and low latency across sources (APIs, feeds, and compliant web scraping). • Design and operate pipelines ; contribute to our asset AI detection entity resolution, and robust outlier detection/cleansing. • Set measurable SLOs for freshness/latency/accuracy; build monitoring, alerting, and runbooks for data incidents. • Own the Alt internal asset catalog and help increase proprietary dataset. • Analytics Engineering • Lead the analytics engineering function and partner closely with the Analytics team (analysts). Provide a clear, self‑servable metrics layer and executive dashboards for GMV, liquidity, funnels, seller/buyer behavior, and ops SLAs. • Own the event taxonomy and product analytics in Amplitude; design A/B experiments. • Automation & AI Agents • Map high‑leverage manual workflows (e.g., listing QA, price suggestions, dispute/CS routing, KYC review, payout reconciliation) and deliver AI agents to replace manual workflows. • Partner with Product, Ops, Risk, and Finance to prioritize automations by ROI and shipped impact. • Building cross organizational workflows • Leadership • Lead and grow a multidisciplinary team (data engineering, analytics engineering, and automation/ML engineers). Manage vendors and budgets. • Translate business goals into a clear roadmap with quarterly outcomes. • Tech You’ll Work With • Warehouse/Lake: Snowflake; object storage (/S3). • Full text search databases: Typesense • Orchestration: Airflow; Data streaming • Transformations & Quality: dbt; Great Expectations/Soda; data catalog. • Ingestion: Airbyte/Fivetran plus custom Python (Scrapy/Playwright) with proxy mgmt. • Analytics: Tableau, Metabase (core BI) and Amplitude (taxonomy, funnels, experiments). • Infra/Dev: AWS; Terraform/IaC; GitHub Actions; Datadog • AI/Agents: OpenAI/Anthropic or Vertex AI; MCPs, Agentic Frameworks (Langchain, Pydantic AI) ; Embeddings model, RAGs; evaluation/guardrails frameworks. 🎯 Requirements • 8–12+ years in data engineering/analytics, including 4+ years leading managers and cross‑functional teams. • Built and operated high‑scale data ingestion from heterogeneous sources (APIs, feeds, and web data) with strong SLAs on freshness and accuracy. • Led an analytics engineering function and partnered with analysts on metric definitions, product analytics instrumentation, experimentation enablement, and exec reporting. • Hands‑on with Python and SQL; comfortable reviewing PRs and diving into schema/model design. • Have experience scaling Analytics across organization. Practical experience delivering LLM/agent systems in production with measurable business outcomes. • Experience working on operational workflows • Marketplace, fintech, or e‑commerce experience (pricing/valuation, risk, payments) preferred • Prior success scaling teams in a high‑growth startup • Bonus: You’re familiar with the collectibles space or alternative asset marketplaces 🏖️ Benefits • A seat at the table to help shape the future of Alt and the alternative asset space • Autonomy and ownership on projects that matter • $100/month work-from-home stipend • $200/month wellness stipend • WeWork office stipend • 401(k) retirement benefits • Flexible vacation policy • Generous paid parental leave • Competitive healthcare benefits, including HSA, for you and your dependent(s)