Director of Data Platform Engineering

This website utilizes technologies such as cookies to enable essential site functionality, as well as for analytics, personalization, and targeted advertising. To learn more, view the following link: Privacy Policy Back to all rolesDirector of Data Platform EngineeringRemote - United StatesFullTime / Engineering4.8On Glassdoor (148 reviews)99% would recommend to a friendRead the memo for our $120M Series CMore about life at OwnerApply for this roleAbout OwnerOwner is the AI-native system local business owners use to succeed, starting with restaurants.We’re building the system that replaces the many tools owners use to run their business.It powers everything from the restaurant’s website, online ordering, CRM, POS, and more.Product philosophyMost small business software makes owners do the work to get what they want: sales growth and profit growth. Owner does the work for them agentically.Our system drives demand, converts it, and helps operators run their business day to day. As it improves, the business improves with it.Using Owner should feel like having a team of great operators, engineers, and marketers working for you.Our visionWe’re starting by helping independent restaurants succeed online.But it’s not just restaurants that need our help. Most local businesses are struggling with these same problems. Huge technology corporations are taking their customers, bleeding their profits, and making it hard for them to survive.Once we nail the solution for restaurants – we’ll scale it into every other local business type.In the future we envision, tens of millions of local business owners will use our technology to succeed in the digital age.Read our Series C memo here →Our tractionSince 2020, we've generated tens of millions in revenue and processed over a billion dollars of online orders. 1 in 5 Americans have used an Owner.com website.More importantly, we’ve helped over 20,000 restaurant owners, and saved them nearly $200 million in fees.Our teamOur team is now in the low hundreds. We’ve got top talent from the most successful companies in SMB software, including: Shopify, HubSpot, DoorDash, ServiceTitan, Rappi, Faire and Stripe.We’ll be scaling even faster in 2026 to keep pace with our customer growth.Where we workOwner is a remote-first, global company headquartered in San Francisco, with a sales hub in Toronto. For a few of our roles we prioritize in-person collaboration at one of our office locations. Most of our teammates are distributed throughout the globe. Please review the role description and discuss with your recruiter for more details on location!Why we're looking for youWe are hiring a Director of Data Platform Engineering to own the platform that turns that data into something the company and our products can rely on. This is a hands-on engineering leadership role: you will set the architecture, build the hard parts yourself early on, and grow a team behind you. The remit runs the full path, from moving data out of production systems into a trusted warehouse, to modeling and governing it, delivering it reliably, and serving it to analysts, product features, and our ML systems. The job is to build that platform, not to bolt an "AI layer" onto something that does not exist yet.This role is remote and can be based anywhere in the US or Canada. For San Francisco-based candidates: we have a beautiful office in the Presidio for optional hybrid collaboration opportunities.The impact you'll haveOwn the end-to-end data platform architecture from source systems to serving, deciding where the stack (today Snowflake, Fivetran, dbt, Sigma, and Hex) consolidates, where it needs rebuilding, and whether it should move toward a lakehouse pattern.Design the path for order data as it moves off the legacy monolith onto a new source of truth, from event consumption and change data capture through to projections, so it lands in the warehouse correctly and on time.Bring real modeling rigor and a single semantic layer so core...