About the Role
Plot is building the next generation of social intelligence, an AI-native platform that helps influential brands understand culture, find emerging trends, and activate their communities at scale. You'll join a small but mighty team where engineers own systems end-to-end, work directly with founders, shape foundational architecture, and make decisions that define how Plot scales.
Responsibilities
- Own the core data systems that power Plot, managing data flow from ingestion to product surfaces.
- Stabilize and harden high-throughput write paths to ensure reliable data ingestion.
- Design data access patterns that maintain performance under heavy load.
- Separate transactional and analytical concerns by designing appropriate systems and contracts.
- Build read-optimized models for insight, including partitioning, rollups, and schemas.
- Enable AI-native analytics by shaping how internal tools and AI agents query data.
- Make architectural decisions, evaluating tradeoffs and guiding the evolution of the data platform.
- Raise the bar for reliability and performance by defining best practices and serving as a resource for data decisions.
Requirements
- Deep experience operating Postgres in production under real-world read/write concurrency, including partitioning, locking, autovacuum, and connection pooling.
- Strong systems intuition, with the ability to think in terms of bottlenecks, failure modes, and tradeoffs.
- Experience designing or owning analytical data architectures, including read-optimized schemas, aggregations, or large-scale querying patterns.
- Comfort leading ambiguous, high-impact work, with the ability to form clear mental models and chart pragmatic paths forward.
- High ownership mindset, with a focus on digging into logs, metrics, and data to ensure correctness, reliability, and maintainability.
- Curiosity, pragmatism, and a desire to build foundational systems.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience.
Skills
- Postgres
- Data Architecture
- Systems Design
- Data Modeling
- Query Optimization
- System Reliability
- Performance Tuning
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of relevant experience
Education Level
- No degree requirements
About the Company
- Plot is building the next generation of social intelligence — an AI-native platform that helps some of the world's most influential brands understand culture, find emerging trends, and activate their communities at scale.
- We are a high-growth, venture-backed startup supported by the co-founders of Reddit and Plaid, with customers like Tory Burch, Lululemon, La Roche-Posay, and other household names.
- We operate at the intersection of applied AI and large-scale data systems, turning millions of short-form videos every day into structured representations of culture and consumer behavior.
- Plot makes unstructured social media legible at scale, enabling brands to build a deep, systematic understanding of trends, audiences, and influence.
