Description:

Yobi is a rapidly growing Behavioral AI company focused on ethically democratizing the benefits of data and AI.
Since 2019, Yobi has built one of the largest consented behavioral datasets in the United States, extending beyond traditional Big Tech.
The company builds foundation models of human behavior based on real-world actions like purchases and store visits.
Yobi's private-by-design modeling enables advanced personalization and decision-making for brands while ensuring privacy, safety, and ethics.
The company aims to bring closed-web user acquisition performance to the open web and connected TV.
Yobi is constructing the behavioral intelligence layer for systems that make personalization decisions.
The Lead Data Engineer will play a crucial role in how data moves, scales, and powers Yobi's Behavioral AI products.
This position involves working on schema modeling, orchestration, workload efficiency, and reliability/observability in a hands-on engineering capacity.
Yobi offers a fully remote or hybrid work environment from several hubs including SF Bay Area, Seattle, and NYC.
The company is well-funded with over 5 years of runway and is projected to be breakeven by 2026.

Requirements:

Candidates must think in systems and be comfortable designing data workflows that balance clarity, modularity, and performance.
Flexibility and strong opinions about various data pipeline patterns (push-based, pull-based, etc.) are essential.
The ability to influence and lead other engineers in an ambiguous and evolving environment is required.
Candidates should have hard skills in data engineering; experience with Delta Lake, Scala Spark, Python Spark, and Airflow is preferred.
Attention to detail is crucial, particularly in schema evolution, data contracts, dependency graphs, and metadata tracking.
Pragmatism is important; candidates should know when to polish and when to ship.
A focus on performance, including wall clock time and cost efficiency, is necessary.

Yobi offers a competitive base salary.
Employees receive meaningful equity and financial upside, representing a real percentage of the company.
An annual bonus target is based on personal and company performance.
Health, dental, and vision plans are provided, with most plans requiring little to no out-of-pocket expenses.
The company offers unlimited PTO, emphasizing impact over tracking days off.
A 401k plan with company match is available for employees.

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