About Dataro

Dataro is an ethically minded SaaS startup using machine learning to help not-for-profits raise more money and do more good. Our platform powers fundraising for organisations across the world, helping them run smarter campaigns and improve donor engagement using data-driven insights.

Every day we ingest and process hundreds of millions of records from a wide range of fundraising and CRM systems. This data underpins our predictive modelling and analytics products. As we expand in the United States, we’re looking for an exceptional engineer who is also an excellent communicator — someone who can work directly with customers, solve technical problems end-to-end, and act as the bridge between clients and our Sydney-based engineering team.

The Role

As a Forward Deployed Data Engineer, you will work closely with customers throughout their entire Dataro journey — from integration design and onboarding through to ongoing optimisation over multi-year engagements. You will serve as both a technical advisor and a hands-on engineer, building data integrations, diagnosing issues, and shaping client solutions.

You will be one of the first technical hires in the US, so this role requires independence, strong ownership, and the ability to operate confidently in ambiguous situations. If you enjoy client interaction as much as writing great code, this role offers a unique opportunity to have direct impact in both engineering and customer outcomes.

What You’ll Do

• Work directly with customers to understand their systems, data structures, and fundraising workflows.
• Act as a bridge between clients, engineering, sales, and customer success — helping translate requirements into solutions.
• Develop and maintain integrations across dozens of fundraising, CRM, and adjacent platforms.
• Build, extend, and optimise data pipelines that process and normalise billions of records daily.
• Troubleshoot and resolve data issues across ingestion, transformation, and delivery pipelines.
• Collaborate with data scientists and data engineers to ensure Dataro models run effectively for every customer.
• Guide customers through onboarding, technical implementation, and long-term success with Dataro.
• Represent the engineering function in-market and advocate for customer needs internally.

What You’ll Bring (Day One)

You don’t need to match every requirement — but these are the core capabilities.

• Experience building and supporting real-world data pipelines, including deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Extremely strong SQL skills — comfortable working with large, complex datasets.
• Extremely strong Python skills, with experience writing production-grade code.
• Understanding of databases, query optimisation, and general software engineering practices.
• Excellent communication skills — comfortable leading customer calls, translating technical topics, and managing expectations.
• Ability to work independently and make good decisions with limited oversight.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics — or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to Have (But Not Required)

No single person will have all of these — they’re opportunities to grow.

• Experience in the fundraising or non-profit sector.
• Experience working in startups or forward-deployed / consulting-style engineering roles.
• Familiarity with AWS services (EC2, Batch, Lambda, S3, Athena).
• Experience with DuckDB or AWS Athena.
• Git, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure-as-code tooling.

Why You’ll Love Working With Us

• High-impact role: you are the key technical representative for Dataro in the US market.
• Blend of engineering, problem-solving, and meaningful client interaction.
• Work on socially impactful technology that helps charities raise more money.
• Modern data stack (Python, Serverless AWS, Postgres, DuckDB, S3, Athena, etc.).
• Strong support from a highly capable engineering team in Sydney — with autonomy and ownership locally.
• We value smart engineers who use modern AI tools to accelerate development, troubleshooting, and communication.
• Flexible work arrangements.

Benefits

• Fully covered "silver" tier healthcare plan (with medical/dental/optical)
• 401k plan, matched up to 5%
• 4 weeks paid leave (with additional leave if moving house, having a baby, etc, subject to our internal policies).
• 10 days paid sick leave
• Professional development budget for courses, mentoring or conferences and additional home office budget
• Additional Paid Volunteering Leave to give back to the causes that matter to you

Working Hours

Our customers are US-based, but our engineering headquarters is in Sydney, Australia. You may need to occasionally work flexible hours (generally, later start and finish) to collaborate effectively across both time zones.

Ready to code for impact?

Send your CV and answers to the three questions to careers@dataro.io.

• Why do you want to work at Dataro?
• What is something you've built (outside of work) that you are really proud of?
• What is the hardest problem you've ever solved?

You must be based on the West Coast of the USA and be able to demonstrate competence with Python and SQL.