Full-Time

Senior Platform Engineer

Acryl Data

Acryl Data

51-200 employees

Provides metadata platform for data observability

Compensation Overview

$225k - $300k/yr

+ Equity

Palo Alto, CA, USA

Hybrid

Hybrid role requiring 3 days on-site per week in Palo Alto.

Category
DevOps & Infrastructure (1)
Required Skills
Python
Data Analysis

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Requirements
  • 4+ years building production-grade distributed systems
  • Advanced Python expertise with a focus on API design
  • Experience with high-scale data processing or integration frameworks
  • Strong systems knowledge and distributed architecture experience
  • A track record of solving complex technical challenges
Responsibilities
  • Scalable, fault-tolerant ingestion systems for enterprise-scale metadata
  • Clean, intuitive APIs for our connector ecosystem
  • Event-driven architectures for real-time metadata processing
  • Schema mapping between diverse systems and DataHub's unified model
  • Versioning systems for AI assets (training data, model weights, embeddings)
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with DataHub or similar metadata/ETL frameworks (Airflow, Airbyte, dbt)
  • Open-source contributions
  • Early-stage startup experience

Acryl Data offers Acryl Cloud, a metadata platform for data management that combines a data catalog with data observability. It helps data producers and consumers organize, understand, and derive fast value from data using Shift Left practices that embed testing early in development. The platform continuously detects data quality incidents in real time, automates anomaly detection, and provides time-based data lineage to trace root causes, with both push and pull metadata ingestion. Pricing is subscription or usage-based, serving teams from technical to non-technical to monitor the health of datasets and pipelines and accelerate issue resolution.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$21M

Headquarters

Santa Clara, California

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • May 2025 Series B brought total funding to $65 million, extending runway.
  • 2026 releases added analytics-agent context and expanded DataHub Cloud capabilities for enterprise buyers.
  • Open source DataHub remains a distribution engine, funneling developers into paid cloud upgrades.

What critics are saying

  • DataHub Cloud rebrand signals Acryl’s identity depends on a community project, not proprietary moats.
  • Bessemer’s May 2025 Series B came after earlier 2023 dilution, pressuring growth expectations.
  • Atlassian, Collibra, and BigID attack the same metadata budget; slower sales kills momentum.

What makes Acryl Data unique

  • DataHub’s open-source footprint and LinkedIn origins anchor enterprise trust and adoption.
  • The platform spans catalog, lineage, observability, and AI context in one control plane.
  • May 2026 launch pushed trusted context for analytics agents beyond 90% accuracy.

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Benefits

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Company Equity

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Company News

Team IT Security
May 21st, 2025
Acryl Data raises $35M Series B

DataHub, by Acryl Data, has secured $35 million in Series B funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. This funding aims to enhance their open source metadata platform, enabling AI to safely manage and utilize data.

i-programmer.info
Jun 26th, 2023
Acryl Adds Advanced Data Observability

Vercel has announced AI Accelerator, a program for AI builders and early stage startups, along with AI Playground, an environment in which developers can experiment with AI technologies.

The New Stack
Jun 23rd, 2023
Acryl Data Unveils Data Observability Capabilities, Adds Funding

Yesterday, Acryl Data announced the launch of Acryl Observe, a data observability module for its flagship Acryl Cloud offering.

Google
Jun 23rd, 2023
Acryl Data unveils Data Observability capabilities, adds funding

Acryl Data unveils Data Observability capabilities, adds funding.

Beritaja
Jun 22nd, 2023
Acryl Data raises $21M to grow its enterprise data catalog platform

With the explosion of different kinds of data, companies are struggling to realize meaningful value from their stored data. Data teams are overworked, meanwhile — forced to cater to the needs of disparate departments within an organization while trying...