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Data Engineering Manager
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Washington D.C., District of Columbia, USA
Source: LILT careers · View original posting
- Pay
- $170,000 — $205,000 USD per year
Employer job description
From LILT's posting. “We” and “our” refer to the employer.
About LILT
AI is changing how the world communicates — and LILT is leading that transformation.
We're on a mission to make the world's information accessible to everyone
, regardless of the language they speak. We use cutting-edge
AI, machine translation, and human-in-the-loop expertise to translate content faster, more accurately, and more cost-effectively without compromising on brand, voice, or quality.
- At LILT, we empower our teammates with leading tools, global collaboration, and growth opportunities to do their best work. Our company virtues—
- Work together, win together; Find a way or make one; Dance in the customer's shoes; Quicker than they expect; Quality is Job 1
- —guide everything we do. We are trusted by
- Intel Corporation, Canva
- , the United States Department of Defense
- , the United States Air Force, ASICS
, and hundreds of global Enterprises. Backed by Sequoia, Intel Capital, and Redpoint, we’re building a category-defining company in a $50B+ global translation market being redefined by AI.
About the Role
You own LILT's data transformation layer: the dbt layer and warehouse behind every number LILT reports, from Analytics to our LLM/MCP surface to internal dashboards. Metric definitions are often owned by other teams; you implement and keep them consistent. This layer has no owner today; you make it a role.
You lead a new Data sub-team in Platform Engineering, reporting to the head of Platform, as a hands-on player-manager while hiring and growing a Data Engineer and Senior Data Scientist. You hold decision rights over the transformation layer and warehouse and own their cost.
What You're Walking Into
We want to be direct about this role so the right person applies.
You inherit ambiguity.
No single owner, pipelines to document and rebuild, and no team until your first two hires; until then you write the SQL, dbt, and Python yourself.
You settle the numbers.
Finance, Operations, Production, and Product must trust the same metrics; you keep definitions consistent and say no when needed.
Some things are fixed, most aren't.
dbt, a single warehouse, and on-prem parity are non-negotiable; warehouse cost is measured and expected to go down. Everything else is yours to decide, with a written case.
The Stack
Transformation:
dbt on BigQuery
Analytics serving:
ClickHouse, Cloud for SaaS, self-hosted on-prem
Sources:
Employer application notice
Equal opportunity and accommodations
LILT is an equal opportunity employer. We extend equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to an individual’s race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic characteristics, veteran or marital status, pregnancy, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state or federal laws. We are committed to the principles of fair employment and the elimination of all discriminatory practices.
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