Sr Data Engineer

Hello, we’re Instrumentl . 👋 Nonprofits do some of the most important work in the world, and most of them are still managing grants in spreadsheets. We're fixing that. Instrumentl is a profitable, hypergrowth, YC-backed SaaS platform building the operating system for grant-funded organizations. More than 5,500 nonprofits use Instrumentl to discover, track, and win grant funding, from local community organizations to the San Diego Zoo and the University of Alaska. Collectively they’ve moved over $1 billion through our platform. We're growing quickly, customers love us (check out our G2 reviews!), and we're hiring people who want to build something that matters. About the role: You'll be our Senior Data Engineer , reporting to engineering leadership and taking ownership of a data platform that is still in its early stages. This is a high-ownership, build-from-the-foundation seat: you'll shape the architecture, stand up reliable pipelines and trusted data models, and set the engineering standards that let our data scale with the company. If you want real ownership over foundational infrastructure at a profitable, fast-growing company, rather than maintaining someone else's system at a larger one, this is that role. What you'll do: Platform & Architecture Design and scale our data platform across pipelines, models, and orchestration Define and implement systems for data ingestion, storage, processing, and transformation Optimize systems for performance, scalability, and cost from the start Pipelines & Engineering Practices Build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines that ingest from APIs, databases, and event streams Apply software engineering principles such as testing, CI/CD, and modular design to data infrastructure Establish best practices for data modeling, testing, and quality Data Enablement & Partnership Build the semantic layer and dashboards that make data usable across the company Partner with engineering, product, and business teams to shape data requirements Enable t