Staff Engineer (Data)

Location: Remote

About the role

Arbor has a large product suite serving thousands of schools, a data platform sitting underneath them all, and a growing set of AI/agentic features that depend on all this being right. We need a Staff Engineer to lead and drive the technical direction across all three. 

You'll own architecture for the Data domain, spanning OLAP, OLTP and the foundations our AI products run on. You'll set direction for teams you don't manage whilst supporting R&D’s rapid evolution to AI-native. Expect to spend as much time getting Leads and Product Directors bought into an approach as you spend designing it.

You're the right fit if you:

• Have set architectural direction across 3 or more teams, not one or two
• Can demonstrate excellent commercial and customer understanding alongside strong technical foundations
• Have real depth in more than one data discipline (platform, analytics, science or AI) and are honest about the ones you don't
• Have worked in product-led scale ups or been through major transformations, where success takes tenacity and high energy

This isn't for you if you:

• Want a role shipping code. The job is technical strategic direction and coaching
• Have spent your career in a single data discipline or one layer of the stack
• Design, document and hand over. You own whether we deliver, not the diagram
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