Data Engineering Lead

Attio is the CRM built for the AI era. Designed for the most ambitious go-to-market teams, it gives companies the power to understand every customer, automate at scale, and build their go-to-market motion exactly as they need. We've raised $116M from some of the world's best investors: GV (Google Ventures), Redpoint, Balderton, Point Nine, and 01A. We hire builders who thrive on complex technical challenges, hold themselves to a high bar, and genuinely care about delighting the people who use what they build. The team here brings sharp judgement, real craft, and the drive to do exceptional work. We're obsessed about the details and energized by the frontier. If you want to do the best work of your career, this is the right place. ABOUT THE ROLE Our Engineering team tackles the toughest challenges, so our users never have to. Real-time infrastructure, AI-native architecture, and a frontend that feels effortless — all powered by a team that moves fast, thinks rigorously, and holds an exceptionally high bar for quality. We’re hiring Attio’s first dedicated Data Engineering Lead to build the infrastructure, pipelines and standards that enable the company to operate on reliable, trusted data at scale. As our inaugural Lead Data Engineer, you’ll own and evolve our internal data platform end-to-end — improving reliability, enabling better decision-making, and shaping the long-term foundations of data across the business. Your work will directly support teams across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Finance and Go-To-Market. We see this as far more than a traditional Data Engineering role. It’s an opportunity to define and shape Attio’s future data capability from the ground up — operating as a highly hands-on senior IC initially, whilst helping establish the foundations, standards and strategic roadmap for how the broader data function evolves over time. The role is ideally suited to someone who enjoys bringing structure to ambiguity, solving complex infrastructure challenges, and working closely with the business in a fast-moving, product-led environment. We’re looking for someone who is equally comfortable being hands-on and building, whilst also thinking strategically about how scalable data systems, processes and teams should evolve over time. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build and stabilise core data infrastructure: Design, build and maintain reliable, scalable pipelines and systems that ensure data flows correctly across the business and support critical operational and reporting workflows. - Improve data reliability and observability: Own and improve the quality, resilience and maintainability of Attio’s broader data infrastructure — helping reduce operational risk and improve trust in the data underpinning the business. - Shape Attio’s future data architecture: Partner closely with Product, Engineering and business stakeholders to define how our data platform should evolve over time, balancing immediate business needs with long-term scalability. - Enable better business decision-making: Help create the foundational datasets, transformations and infrastructure required to support experimentation, analytics and operational reporting across the company. - Operate as a senior technical leader: Bring clarity and direction within ambiguity — taking loosely defined problems, creating clear plans of execution, and driving outcomes with a high degree of ownership and autonomy. - Help build the future data function: Contribute toward defining best practices, technical standards and longer-term hiring plans as Attio’s data capability matures and scales over time. WHAT YOU’LL BRING - Strong Data Engineering foundations: Deep hands-on experience designing and maintaining modern data infrastructure, pipelines and transformation layers within cloud-native environments. - Technical depth across modern data tooling: Strong hands-on Data Engineering capability across modern tooling such as BigQuery, DBT, SQL and Python (or equivalent ecosystems e.g. Snowfl