Backend Technical Lead (Data Engineering)

About Us
A massive shift is taking place within SaaS. Just as perpetual licensing gave way to subscription, subscription is giving way to usage-based pricing. But tying revenue to usage fundamentally changes how every part of the business operates, from billing teams to the C-suite. Turnstile is the modern stack to help companies adopt and scale with usage-based pricing.
We're a small, fully remote, and proven team with strong backing from First Round Capital, prominent usage-based founders and operators, and other top investors. The last company we started, Second Measure, scaled to 70+ people and tens of millions in revenue, received multiple "best places to work" awards, and was ultimately acquired by Bloomberg in a landmark deal.

The Opportunity
Joining as an early engineer (and our first data engineering lead), you'll own the processing frameworks and pipelines for handling critical business data for usage-based SaaS operators and their customers. You'll architect our data processing systems; define and evolve our technology stack as our scale grows, and lead our data engineering sub-team. You'll work closely with design and product management to deliver highly-available and correct outputs to business users for one of their most operationally critical systems. More than that, you'll join a tight-knit team of repeat founders and seasoned operators in shaping the future of SaaS.
In this role, we'll ask you to:

• Partner with technical founders to create a category-defining product
• Lead our overall data processing strategy
• Define best-in-class engineering standards and practices
• Help assemble and mentor a diverse and distributed team of backend engineers

We'd love to hear from you if:

• You have a proven track record of developing and maintaining highly available and highly scalable production systems as an on-call operator
• You have prior experience as a team or technical lead
• You've worked with distributed batch processing systems such as Spark, MapReduce, or Presto
• You have experience with OLAP systems such as Redshift, BigQuery, or Druid
• You are familiar with data lakes and data lakehouses such as Delta Lake
• You've worked with stream processing engines such as Spark Streaming, Flink, or Kafka Streams
• You'd excel working in a dynamic and high-trust environment alongside an experienced team

Working at Turnstile

• Competitive and Fair Pay: Equal pay by role and level at 75th percentile of SF salaries ($195,000 to $250,000 for this role, depending on level) with meaningful equity
• Fully Remote: Distributed by design with team members from San Francisco to Raleigh
• 4-Day Core Schedule: Fridays are yours - for whatever helps you live a rich and balanced life
• Fully Covered Health Benefits: 100% paid medical, mental health, dental, and vision premiums for you and your family
• Paid Parental Leave: 16 weeks for birthing parent, 12 weeks for all other parents welcoming a new child into their home
• 401(k): With 4% company contribution, regardless of what you put in
• Flexible PTO: Take the time you need to unplug and unwind
• Setup: New Mac + $1,500 annual stipend to make your home workspace more comfortable and productive

Turnstile is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We learn from perspectives that are different from our own and are committed to creating an equitable and inclusive environment for all our employees.
We recognize that great talent doesn't always fit neatly into predefined roles.

• We consider all candidates for all open roles. lf you fit into more than one role, we ask you only apply to the one you feel is the closest fit.
• If you're interested in working with us, but don't see a clear fit for a posted role, we'd still love to hear from you at [email protected].