Data & Infrastructure Engineer (CA)

Our vision is to bring empathy to digital interactions. Emotions make us human. Technology doesn’t account for human emotions. We’re going to change that.

Element Human believes in a world where people are first, always. We are a multi-disciplinary team using AI to build the emotion layer for the internet so that people and companies can build deeper, higher quality relationships that improve lives.

Today, we work with creators, agencies, brands, platforms to measure what their audience thinks, feels, and says. We do this using a combination of biometric data, implicit association tests, attention measures, survey responses, and emotion modeling. This creates a rich tapestry of human derived data to machine learn against and glean insights from.

Role

We are looking for a Data & Infrastructure Engineer as an integral part of our Product and Engineering team (title flexible if that’s important). This role is a hybrid between DevOps and Data Engineering – you’ll do some of both. If that sounds like an exciting way to flex your cognitive muscles, read on.

You won’t be the first to touch these parts of our stack, but you will be the first in this role. We’ve hacked away at these areas for a while, have made modest progress, and are ready to take things up a notch (or several if that’s your style).

Our product is a data product and you will be at its nucleus. Oversimplified, we encode, process, and model biometric and survey data. Managing and optimizing this process E2E is your remit. We’re currently migrating our pipelines to use Beam/DataFlow with a BigQuery sink and shifting our DB from Postgres to BigQuery. From there, we have lots of value to extract from our existing data, lots of demand for enhanced modeling, and a unique dataset to learn against.

We’re solving a hard problem and our cloud infrastructure is a complex garden that needs tending to. Here you’ll deploy and maintain new services, continuously improve our CI/CD flow, track and debug issues throughout our stack. We have stable and performant delivery. Now, we need to decouple and modularize the components, increasing the resiliency and flexibility of our system. In other words, we’re renovating and want you to help us do it. Oh – also, we do have technical debt that we’ll need to manage and pay off.

This role is a glue type role, plugging current gaps we have and operating at the nexus of our product/team. The salary for this role is anticipated to be between $100-145K(+equity – same shares as the founders and shareholders), with the actual amount influenced by factors such as technical ability, experience, and cultural fit.

What You’ll Do in a Nutshell

• Bridging the backend development and data science/analytics teams.

• Data pipeline development.

• Bring model prototypes into production.

• Cloud Infrastructure maintenance and renovations.

• Integrating backend web services with databases/data warehouses.

• Developing and managing data processing infrastructure.

Who you will work with

You are joining an awesome team. Well, at least we think so… Since it’s possible we’re a tad biased, we’ll let you decide for yourself.

Who you are

• A Pi (π not the dessert) shaped engineer, with expertise in both DevOps and Data Infrastructure.

• A senior level employee and colleague, you have some tread on your tires. While years of experience doesn’t necessarily equate to experience or ability, generally we expect you’ll likely have ~6-10 years in a similar capacity.

• Intimately acquainted with some or all of our tools: GCP, Terraform, Postgres, Python, Docker, Kubernetes (GKE), Django, React.

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You’ll feel at home here if you…

• Are a ‘learn it all’ and believe life’s too short not to be.

• Are a bit unusual – nothing remarkable ever happened inside the existing lines.

• Are people first, open minded, and accomplish more with teammates than alone.

• Take pride in your work, and like to have fun along the way.

• Have a high ‘will to win’. You may have been described as tenacious, impatient, ambitious, persistent, gritty, etc.

• Phrased differently, you prefer spending your time working hard on hard problems, rather than punching the proverbial clock.

• Resonate with the core tenets of our Product & Engineering team:

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• We tame complexity and simplify on behalf of customers.

• Courageous empathy.

• We invent and invest courageously on behalf of customers. We proactively bring empathy to our interactions with customers, partners, and stakeholders.

• Prosecute problems, seek truth.

• We fall in love with customer problems, not our solutions. In this manner, we seek truth in our work.

• Adaptability and resilience.

• Great businesses, teams, and people serve the dueling needs of adaptability and resilience.

• Impatience and persistence.

• Time is our most valuable resource and persistence is required to solve hard problems that change the course of history.

• Tend the garden.

• We’re caretakers and cultivators. We nurture our garden, remove weeds by the root, and cultivate an environment conducive to growth.

• Mechanisms deter pythons.

• Mechanisms are the best antidote for the

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• We deliver performant software frequently, through early and continuous delivery, on behalf of our customers.

What else can we share?

Joining Element Human, you will have the opportunity to shape your role, own the execution, make mistakes, and learn with the support of a smart and scrappy team. We are a people first, always company with an inclusive and all embracing approach to everything we do and everyone we meet.

If you’re not convinced yet, there are probably better fits for you out there. If you are convinced, here’s a few key benefits as cherries on top:

Unlimited holiday policy

2 weeks of company wide time off annually

Work where & (mostly) when you work best

Employer Pension scheme (UK)

️ Staff Wellness Programme

Technologies we work with

Infrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes & Terraform, AWS

Code: Python, Typescript and Go

Frameworks: Django, Flask, FastAPI, React

DB’s: Redis, PostgreSQL & Metabase

Tools: GitLab, ClickUp, Notion, Figma

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

This document states what we are looking for, but we are really happy to talk about what you are looking for too. Hiring is a two-way street.

We don’t expect you to have experience doing all of these things; if you think you’ll be good in the role please get in touch as we would love to speak to you as no one person has everything!