Director of Data Engineering
About The Position
1stDibs is a one-of-a-kind online marketplace that connects design lovers to more than one million extraordinary pieces, from furniture and fine art to jewelry and fashion. As a leading global marketplace for design lovers, we enable shoppers to discover beautiful things and engage with top sellers from around the world. We encourage our shoppers to interact with sellers throughout all stages of the transaction, including item inquiries, price negotiations and customization requests. We are seeking an experienced and visionary Director of Data Engineering to lead our data strategy, architecture, and infrastructure. In this critical leadership role, you will oversee the design, development, and evolution of our modern data platform, from real-time streaming pipelines to scalable data warehouse and lake architectures. You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Analytics to ensure reliable, high-quality data powers analytics, reporting, experimentation, and machine learning across the organization.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering, including 2+ years leading teams or managing engineering functions.
- Strong experience with cloud data platforms (AWS preferred) and modern big data technologies.
- Advanced SQL skills for designing, querying, and optimizing relational databases and large datasets.
- Proven ability to lead and grow teams, with strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Deep experience with data warehousing (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery) and data lake architectures.
- Strong proficiency with Python and familiarity with distributed compute frameworks such as Spark.
- Experience with orchestration frameworks such as Apache Airflow, Dagster, or similar.
- Experience enabling BI and analytics teams through tools like Looker, Tableau, or Power BI.
- Hands-on experience with dbt for transformation, modeling, and scalable analytics engineering patterns.
Nice To Haves
- Experience leading teams in an Agile environment, including sprint planning, delivery execution, and cross-functional coordination.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of data engineers and database administrators, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Own the end-to-end design, development, maintenance, and migration of scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and data systems.
- Define and implement modern data architecture strategies, including data warehousing (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery), data lakes, and real-time streaming pipelines.
- Establish best practices for data reliability, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and data quality validation.
- Integrate and manage data from analytics platforms (including Google Analytics 4 / GA4) to support comprehensive reporting and insights.
- Partner with Analytics to enable self-service BI using tools such as Looker, including well-modeled, trusted datasets.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering to ensure accurate instrumentation and reporting for A/B tests and experimentation.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders to align data priorities with business goals and ensure the timely delivery of high-impact initiatives.
Benefits
- Competitive medical/dental/vision benefits, including a $0 single medical plan, with HSA employer contributions. Health plan includes gender affirmation and infertility care.
- We are flexible with our PTO. We generally expect employees take around 15 days/year.
- All employees enjoy ownership in 1stDibs in RSUs, through new hire grants, and/or annual refresh grants, if eligible.
- The choice to work in our New York headquarters, with monthly in-office meals and mixers, and happy hours, and/or the option to work completely remotely. We truly prioritize flexibility for all employees.
- Fully paid wellness benefits, including One Medical membership and WellHub.
- Fully paid parental leave, leave to care for a family member, and bereavement leave, including reproductive loss.
- Company match of donations to 501c3 charities, up to $250/year.
- Full benefits package includes FSA, life and disability insurance, EAP, commuter benefits, and more.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
251-500 employees
