Director of Engineering - Data

The Role

At Fideo, we transform massive, real-time and batch data into actionable intelligence to fight fraud and protect individuals and businesses worldwide. As Director of Engineering, Data, you’ll lead the design and evolution of the core systems that power our Identity Graph, integrating billions of signals across people, devices, and behaviors, and enabling customers to access these insights via APIs and batch pipelines.

This is a hands-on, technical leadership role with no direct reports initially, but with an expectation to grow and scale a team over time. You’ll set the vision and technical direction for our data platform, influence architecture and processes, and work alongside a small, high-performing engineering team to deliver resilient, scalable, and high-quality systems.

You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Data Science, and Platform Engineering to deliver systems that ingest, process, and serve data at scale, powering both real-time decisioning and batch enrichment capabilities for our customers.

Core Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Strategy

• Own the architecture and technical roadmap of Fideo’s data platform, including our Identity Graph, customer-facing APIs, and internal microservices.
• Design and evolve systems that integrate real-time and batch data sources at scale, ensuring data quality, consistency, and integrity.
• Champion engineering excellence, embedding resilience, security, and performance into every layer of the platform.

Hands-On Execution

• Lead the implementation of Fideo’s real-time-native Identity Graph, evolving the foundation into a robust, low-latency, high-scale production system that powers both customer-facing APIs and internal insights.
• Contribute to the design and development of distributed data pipelines and scalable APIs that process billions of records.
• Define patterns for building and operating microservices to support high-throughput and low-latency requirements.
• Build robust observability and testing practices, ensuring high availability (99.9%+ uptime) and SOC 2 readiness.

Collaboration & Growth

• Partner with Product to translate customer needs into clear technical designs and deliverables.
• Mentor engineers across the team, fostering technical growth and preparing to scale a team as the company grows.
• Support Sales conversations by providing technical expertise in customer conversations.
• Contribute to thought leadership through documentation, internal talks, and external presentations or publications.

Requirements

• Proven experience architecting and delivering large-scale data platforms and distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in both real-time (streaming) and batch data processing.
• Mastery of backend technologies: Java, Scala, or Go; REST APIs and microservices.
• Strong depth working with large data processing tools such as Spark, EMR, or MapReduce.
• Expert in NoSQL (e.g., ClickHouse, Scylla, Cassandra) and RDBMS (e.g., Postgres, MySQL, Aurora) at scale.
• Strong understanding of AWS and cloud-native architectures, including containerization (ECS/Kubernetes), IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Skilled in building resilient, observable systems with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing.
• Experience designing and evolving identity-related or graph-based data models is a strong plus.
• Excellent communicator with the ability to write clear documentation, diagrams, and presentations.
• Experience scaling teams and mentoring engineers preferred.
• Ability to reason about identity resolution, entity matching, and graph-based data at scale.
• Strong quantitative and analytical reasoning skills, with enough mathematical foundation to design and evaluate complex identity graphing systems.

About Fideo

At Fideo, we provide crucial intelligence to protect people, businesses, and communities. Our name is inspired by the concept of “Fides Publica,” which means public faith. We provide businesses access to billions of aggregated identity signals on people, devices, and behavior. Fideo applies trusted intelligence to power real-time identity verification and fraud protection.

We have embraced a default remote work environment in the US. Roles can be filled in the following states: Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, and Texas. Please only apply if you live in one of the states listed above. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift.

Compensation and Benefits

• $225,000 - $245,00 base plus company-based bonus plan and equity.
• We offer you and your family 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• We provide a prepaid HRA card for out-of-pocket medical, dental, and vision expenses.
• We are #defaultremote (fully and permanently remote). We plan to get the entire team together in person at least once a year.
• A monthly reimbursement for recurring home office expenses.
• Unlimited VTO (vacation time off) so you can recharge and relax when needed.
• Paid Parental Leave when you welcome a new member to your family.
• Bereavement leave to support the grieving process for the loss of both human and animal family members.
• A rich Company holiday schedule includes the week between Christmas and New Year off!
• 401K retirement plan.

All offers of employment at Fideo are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check. Fideo is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Fideo does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.

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