What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Engineer position at X4 Engineering?
The Company
They are a data centric consultancy with an office in San Francisco that work across tech, healthcare/biotech, finance, energy, real estate, and startups - building complex data platforms, products, and AI-driven systems.
The Role
A hands-on, senior individual contributor role for engineers who still love coding. You’ll work in small teams (often 1–3 engineers) to design and build production-grade data platforms, pipelines, and products across industries.
What You’ll Work On
- High-impact, fixed-scope builds (e.g., enterprise data marts, complex migrations)
- End-to-end data platform deployments (ETL, warehouses, BI across AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Partnering with startups to build data-intensive products from 0 → 1
What We’re Looking For
Hands-on builder
- Actively writing production code today
- Not removed into management or purely architectural roles
Infrastructure ownership
- Personally deployed and operated production systems
- Cloud, CI/CD, scaling, monitoring, reliability
End-to-end ownership
- Taken products from idea → launch → ongoing operation
- Comfortable operating autonomously with stakeholders
- Strong preference for backgrounds in smaller, high-ownership environments
- Experience wearing multiple hats (application infrastructure deployment)
Why Join
- High autonomy and real technical ownership
- Variety of industries and problems
- Small, elite engineering team
- Opportunity to shape a fast-scaling consultancy
Location: San Francisco (5 days a week on-site)
Salary: $160k-$210k 10-20% bonus equity sign on bonus
Benefits: Full Health, Vision, Dental, Life Insurance, Commuter Benefits, Unlimited Time off, 401k matched.
Salary : $160,000 - $210,000