Data Engineer

⭐ About daydream

daydream builds growth marketing playbooks for the world’s fastest growing companies.

Note: This role requires candidates to be in-person, in-office 3 days per week in our Hayes Valley, San Francisco office.

We believe the future of growth marketing is one where companies pay for outcomes, rather than tools. Today, we leverage a combination of AI-enabled services + software to execute SEO growth playbooks for companies like Clay, OpenArt, Beacons and dozens of others. In the future, we'll expand our capabilities across the entire growth marketing stack, encompassing all essential customer acquisition channels.

We’ve raised $6.2M from First Round Capital, Basis Set Ventures, WndrCo, SOMA Capital, and growth leaders from Notion, Airtable, Webflow, Dropbox, and more. Angels include Lenny Rachitsky and Eli Schwartz (Author of Product-Led SEO).

🔧 The Problem We’re Solving

Modern content marketing fails when it doesn't scale. Teams often run into four major pitfalls:

• ✅ Accuracy – Content must be grounded in real-world data.

• 🎯 Intent – It must satisfy what users are actually searching for.

• 🚀 Value – It has to be better than what's already out there.

• 📈 Scalability – Great strategy is meaningless if it can’t scale across thousands of pages.

Most tools focus on surface-level solutions. We’re building systems that deeply understand user intent, extract high-signal data, and scale production with precision and speed.

🧠 How daydream is Different

At daydream, we don’t just create content — we create systems to generate and optimize content at scale.

That’s where you come in.

As a Data Engineer, you'll be the backbone of our data-driven approach. You’ll design the pipelines that power every stage of our growth playbooks — from scraping large volumes of web data to analyzing what actually drives traffic and conversion.

🤝 The People You’ll Work With

• Nico (Head of Growth): Founded Failory, a startup newsletter grown to 40K+ subscribers entirely through SEO. Has worked with dozens of top startups on growth.

• Shravan (CTO): Previously an Engineering Lead at Flixed and Software Engineer at Facebook, where he led scraping and data infrastructure for Facebook Jobs and Meta Reality Labs.

• Growth Leads: daydream’s growth team works directly with customers to plan SEO strategies across thousands of pages. Your work will bring these strategies to life.

🥞 Our stack

• Python

• Web Automation (Selenium/Playwright)

• Postgres

• LLMs (GPT, Claude, Gemini)

👷‍♀️ What You’ll Do as a Data Engineer

As one of the first Data Engineers at daydream, you’ll own the architecture and execution of the data pipelines that drive our growth playbooks.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Data Collection
  Design and scale web scraping pipelines to collect and structure content at large volumes across different verticals.

• Performance Analytics
  Build systems to track and analyze the effectiveness of thousands of SEO assets, turning raw data into insights and dashboards.

• Internal Tooling & Automation
  Build internal tools that allow our growth leads to ideate, launch, and test strategies at scale—backed by data, not gut feel.

• Cross-functional Collaboration
  Work closely with engineering, design, and growth to embed data workflows into our product stack.

• Knowledge Sharing & Leadership
  Stay on top of the latest in data engineering, SEO, and AI—share learnings internally and contribute to a culture of technical excellence.

✅ You’ll Thrive in This Role If You:

• Have strong Python skills and experience with large-scale web automation

• Are comfortable designing reliable, scalable data pipelines

• Have experience with data visualization and communicating insights clearly

• Enjoy fast-paced environments and can quickly iterate on ideas

• Can collaborate across technical and non-technical teams

• Are curious and driven to solve messy, unstructured problems with clean systems

🏦 Compensation

The compensation for this role is $140k - $180K base salary with generous equity in daydream.

For applicants outside of the San Francisco Bay Area, we are offering paid relocation.