Director of Data Engineering

Kiddom • Full-time • Hybrid in San Francisco, California, United States • $180,000 - $250,000 / year • 3w ago

Fast Facts

Kiddom seeks a Director of Data Engineering to lead the development of its data platform, driving analytics, AI, and personalized learning experiences across the organization.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include defining the data platform vision, architecting scalable data pipelines, guiding data infrastructure evolution, and mentoring a high-performing data engineering team.

Skills: Candidates should have strong expertise in SQL, Python or Go, experience with cloud data services, and a deep understanding of data modeling and AI/ML workflows.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include 10+ years in data engineering, 4+ years in leadership roles, and proven experience in designing large-scale data platforms.

Location: The job is based in San Francisco, California, USA.

Compensation: $180000 - $250000 / Annually

About Kiddom

Kiddom is a groundbreaking educational platform that promotes student equity and growth by uniting high-quality instructional materials with dynamic digital learning. Through unparalleled curriculum management functionality, Kiddom empowers schools and districts to take ownership of their curriculum – resulting in learning experiences tailored to meet the unique needs and goals of local communities. Kiddom’s high-quality curriculum is layered with robust teacher and leader data insights to drive the continuous improvement of instructional decisions, school/district programming, and professional learning.

We are looking for a Director of Data Engineering to lead the evolution of Kiddom’s data platform as a foundational layer powering analytics, AI, personalization, and product intelligence across our ecosystem.

As Director of Data Engineering, you will define and execute Kiddom’s data engineering strategy while leading a high-performing team responsible for building scalable, secure, and reliable data systems. You will partner closely with Engineering, Product, AI/ML, Curriculum, Analytics, and Go-to-Market teams to ensure data enables every major company initiative. This role blends technical leadership, organizational management, and platform vision. You will shape how educational data flows across Kiddom — from ingestion and modeling to real-time insights and AI-driven features.

What you'll do...

Technical & Platform Leadership
Define and execute the long-term vision for Kiddom’s data platform supporting analytics, AI/ML, and product intelligence.
Architect scalable batch and real-time data pipelines powering personalization, reporting, and learning insights.
Establish best practices for data modeling, data quality, lineage, and observability across the organization.
Guide evolution of data infrastructure across cloud-native environments and distributed systems.
Ensure data systems meet performance, scalability, reliability, and compliance requirements as product usage grows.
AI & Product Enablement
Partner with AI/ML teams to enable feature stores, experimentation workflows, and model training pipelines.
Support delivery of AI-powered product capabilities through reliable, well-modeled datasets.
Collaborate with Product and Engineering leaders to integrate data seamlessly into user experiences and decision systems.
Leadership & Team Development
Build, mentor, and scale a world-class data engineering organization.
Establish clear technical standards, career growth paths, and operational excellence practices.
Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Provide technical guidance while empowering engineers to lead initiatives.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Work closely with Product, Curriculum, Analytics, Customer Success, and GTM teams to translate business needs into scalable data solutions.
Support company planning through data strategy aligned with customer adoption cycles and business priorities.
Drive alignment between platform engineering, infrastructure, and analytics initiatives.

What we're looking for...

10+ years of experience in data engineering, backend engineering, or distributed systems.4+ years leading or managing high-performing engineering teams.
Passion for attracting and growing top notch talent.
Proven experience designing and operating large-scale data platforms in production environments.
Strong expertise in SQL and programming languages such as Python or Go.
Experience with modern cloud data ecosystems (AWS preferred), including services such as: S3, EKS/ECSData warehousing platforms (Snowflake or similar), streaming and real-time data systems
Deep understanding of data modeling, pipeline orchestration, and analytics architecture.
Experience supporting AI/ML workflows and data products.
Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on technical depth.

$180,000 - $250,000 a year

Salary range is dependent on geographic location, prior experience, seniority, and demonstrated role related ability during the interview process.

What we offer

Full time permanent employees are eligible for the following benefits from their first day of employment:

* Competitive salary

* Meaningful equity

* Health insurance benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance

* One Medical membership (in participating locations)

* Flexible vacation time policy (subject to internal approval). Average use 4 weeks off per year.

* 10 paid sick days per year (pro rated depending on start date)

* Paid holidays

* Paid bereavement leave

* Paid family leave after birth/adoption. Minimum of 16 paid weeks for birthing parents, 10 weeks for caretaker parents. Meant to supplement benefits offered by State.

* Commuter and FSA plans

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

Kiddom is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, transgender status, national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, pregnancy, age, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.