Data Engineer, Foundations

Superhuman offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.

About Superhuman

Superhuman is an AI productivity suite that makes AI work for everyone. Over 40 million people rely on it daily to get work done. A recognized leader in productivity tools, Superhuman is the maker of popular products including Docs, Fathom, Go, GPTZero, Grammarly, and Mail. The newest product, Superhuman Go, builds on Grammarly’s ability to deliver help everywhere people work. It lets anyone build proactive agents that act as teammates across more than 1 million apps and websites, without changing how they work. Learn more at superhuman.com .

The Opportunity

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Foundations team and help us build a world-class data platform. Superhuman’s success depends on its ability to efficiently ingest and process over 70 billion daily events to improve our products. This role presents a unique opportunity to experience all aspects of building complex data pipelines and systems, including contributing to the strategy, defining the architecture, and developing and shipping to production. Superhuman is a compound startup: we build many products as one integrated suite rather than standalone tools. That model creates an unusually rich data opportunity, with signals spanning our full product suite across both consumers and enterprises — and the foundational data you build connects those surfaces. The Data Foundations team is part of the Data Platform org, powering data needs across Superhuman rather than a single product surface. It owns the foundational datasets and data models that define the fundamental entities of Superhuman's business, serving as building blocks for the company's other data teams and data scientists. Behind the scenes, the team develops and runs large-scale ETL pipelines that process petabytes of data and billions of events daily. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of data engineering, data-intensive applications, and data modeling, where the systems you build directly shape how efficiently our other Data teams can build their datasets. What you’ll do As a Data Engineer on the Data Foundations team, you will design and implement robust, scalable, and reliable data pipelines and systems that handle large volumes of data, empowering both product features and data-driven decision-making across the company. Your work will span areas such as ETL data pipelines, data lakes, performance-oriented data processing, and ETL framework development. Architect, build, and own large-scale data pipelines and data lakes (Spark/Databricks) that ingest and process billions of daily events into reliable, decision-grade datasets. Design and implement solutions that keep data available, secure, and scalable across the platform, enabling both real-time and batch processing. Own data quality, freshness, and reliability for the foundational datasets other teams depend on, with automated checks, monitoring, and alerting. Build the ETL frameworks and tooling that let other data teams and data scientists self-serve and model core business entities into clean, well-documented, reusable datasets. Partner with product teams, back-end engineers, ML engineers, and Data Science to turn business questions into high-impact data products behind business-critical features, research, and experimentation. Collaborate with leadership to shape the team’s charter and technical roadmap.

Qualifications

• You have 7+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, with expertise in both data engineering and data modeling.
• You have 5+ years of experience running live production environments, including high-load or data-intensive workflows, with a focus on uptime and reliability.
• You’re highly proficient in SQL and Python, with deep hands-on experience in Spark and a modern lakehouse or cloud data warehouse (Databricks, Delta Lake, dbt, Snowflake, or similar).
• You have strong knowledge of ETL/ELT design patterns, orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, dbt, or Dagster), data quality frameworks, and CI/CD for data with Git-based deployments.
• You have strong data modeling and data warehouse design skills, along with a rigorous approach to data quality and observability.
• You have hands-on experience with modern data storage technologies (for example, Delta Lake, Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift).
• You’re a strategic thinker who can weigh building in-house against leveraging third-party solutions, balancing speed, scalability, and long-term viability.
• You communicate clearly and collaborate well across diverse teams and stakeholders, turning business needs into robust data solutions and trustworthy metrics.
• You bring a strong ownership mindset, taking end-to-end responsibility for the systems you build, from strategy and architecture through production and ongoing reliability.
• You have a strong acumen for scalable, highly complex data processing, think holistically about problems, and raise the bar on your team’s craft.
• You’re a self-starting problem-solver who thinks from first principles, manages priorities across multiple projects, and thrives in a fast-paced, results-driven environment.

Nice to have

• Experience with high-throughput, real-time streaming systems (for example, Kafka, Flink, or Spark Structured Streaming) at the scale of billions of events per day.
• Comfort with data lake and lakehouse technologies (for example, Delta Lake, Iceberg, or Hudi) and managing cloud infrastructure as code (for example, Terraform).
• A track record of building self-serve data products, tools, or frameworks that other teams rely on.
• Experience partnering with analytics, data science, or machine learning teams as a strategic data partner to productionize data and models.

Compensation and Benefits

Superhuman offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more:

• Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
• Disability and life insurance options
• 401(k) and RRSP matching
• Paid parental leave
• 20 days of paid time off per year, 12 days of paid holidays per year, two floating holidays per year, and flexible sick time
• Generous stipends (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more)
• Annual professional development budget and opportunities

Superhuman takes a market-based approach to compensation, so base pay may vary by location. Our US locations are categorized into two compensation zones based on proximity to our hub locations. For more information about our compensation zones and locations where we currently support employment, please refer to this page . If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information. Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below by compensation zone and may be modified in the future.

We encourage you to apply

At Superhuman, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Superhuman is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).