Estuary is simplifying how the world moves data so teams can build, adapt, and innovate without limits.

As a Solutions Engineer at Estuary, you’ll work directly with our founding team to help companies unlock the power of their real-time data. Your work will directly shape how users harness their real-time data, driving our product's development and creating seamless user experiences.

Working at the intersection of engineering, product, and customers, this role offers the unique opportunity to influence Estuary’s product roadmap while ensuring a smooth and impactful experience for our users.

We’re looking for individuals with an insatiable curiosity to dive into technical challenges and an empathetic approach to making complex concepts accessible to others. This role is perfect for someone who thrives in a startup environment and seeks the freedom to implement ideas without the constraints of a larger company.

As a Solutions Engineer, you’ll play a crucial role in shaping the trajectory of a growing company, with the flexibility to chart your path and take your career to the next level.

Responsibilities:

• Focus on solving specific customer pain points to create a seamless end-to-end experience.
• Lead discovery of user challenges, translating insights into actionable product strategies.
• Develop technical documentation of customer requirements and maintain internal resources.
• Actively engage in user-support channels, addressing questions and issues raised by Flow users.
• Provide hands-on technical support, conducting independent investigations when needed.
• Build strong relationships with customers to act as a trusted conduit, influencing their data strategy.
• Develop a perspective on customer and market trends, sharing insights directly with our founding team to influence product direction.
• Gather and articulate technical feature requests to improve product alignment with customer needs.
  

What We’re Looking For:

• Takes ownership of global customer requests, recognizing that timely support across timezones enables customer success and helps Estuary grow.
• You're deeply committed to building at a fast-paced startup, far beyond a typical 9 to 5 job.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, or related field, or equivalent technical and business experience.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building abilities.
• A natural teacher with empathy for technical and non-technical users, and a genuine desire to make complex topics accessible.
• Solid understanding and hands-on experience with two or more programming languages (e.g., Python, SQL, JavaScript) or equivalent technical skills.
• Experience collaborating effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to balance customer-centric thinking with strong technical expertise.
• Experience working in startup environments is strongly preferred.

Why Estuary?

• Collaborative, ambitious, high performing team that’s passionate about data and pushing the envelope in technology.
• Early-stage startup: your limit is your imagination, not your job description.
• Remote-first culture with autonomy: work flexibly from anywhere.
• Quarterly offsite meetings in fun locations like Miami, Boulder, and Austin.  Getting to know each other as a team is crucial to our success! 
• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits package.

If you’re passionate about solving complex problems, helping customers succeed, and building for scale, we’d love to hear from you!

Location: Remote (US)

Department: Sales

Reports to: Head of Sales / GTM Lead

Compensation: Base + Commission + Equity

About Estuary

Estuary is reshaping the future of data movement. Our platform unifies batch and real-time pipelines into a single, reliable system — eliminating the need to stitch together fragmented ETL and streaming tools.

We help data teams move and sync data across systems with low latency, strong guarantees, and production-grade reliability. As organizations shift toward real-time architectures, traditional batch-only solutions are no longer enough. Estuary enables teams to build modern data infrastructure without unnecessary complexity.

Backed by top investors and led by experienced founders in the data infrastructure space, our mission is to make real-time data practical and accessible for every organization.

What You'll Do

• Own the full sales cycle from outbound prospecting through close for mid-market, data-forward organizations.
• Lead consultative discovery conversations with technical and commercial stakeholders.
• Position Estuary as a modern alternative to legacy ETL tools and fragmented streaming stacks.
• Navigate complex buying committees that include data engineers, Heads of Data, and finance stakeholders.
• Build and manage pipeline with strong CRM discipline in HubSpot.
• Partner closely with Sales Engineering, Marketing, and Leadership to refine messaging, ICP definition, and competitive positioning.
• Consistently meet and exceed new logo and ARR quotas.

What You Bring

• 3–6 years of closing experience in SaaS, data infrastructure, or developer-focused products.
• Proven track record of hitting or exceeding quota in a new business role.
• Comfort selling into technical buyers (data engineers, analytics engineers, platform teams).
• Working knowledge of modern data stack concepts: ETL/ELT, CDC, data warehouses, streaming pipelines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical value into business impact.
• Self-starter mentality with the ambition to grow into a senior or enterprise-focused sales role as we scale.

Bonus Points If You

• Have experience selling to data engineers or platform teams.
• Have worked at an early-stage startup in the data infrastructure or developer tooling space.
• Are familiar with tools such as Fivetran, Airbyte, Kafka, dbt, or Snowflake.
• Have experience navigating multi-threaded deals with both technical and commercial stakeholders.

Why Join Us?

• Help define how real-time data infrastructure is sold.
• Be early enough to shape GTM strategy, not just execute it.
• Work alongside a deeply technical team building category-defining infrastructure.
• Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits.
• Remote-first culture with meaningful ownership and impact.
  

Level: Director
Location: Remote US
Reports to: CTO

What’s the role

Estuary powers “right-time” data replication and transform: from sub-second CDC replication to terabyte-scale OLAP data flows. We’re formalizing a Platform (foundational services) vs Applications (SaaS and technology integrations, transformation UX, AI enablement) structure across our team and technology stack, by hiring a Head of Applications Engineering to lead strategy, people, delivery, and operations as we transition from a flat team of generalists to durable, high-ownership pods. This role is a peer to the Head of Platform Engineering (founder CTO as interim).

What you’ll do

• Optimize project delivery. Develop processes and team loops that wrangle the competing needs of customers, partners, marketing, operations, and long-term product vision into a focused and achievable technical pipeline.
  
• Maintain SLOs. Manage application issue triage and response so that customer impacts are evaluated and resolved expeditiously. Safeguard Estuary’s “fix bugs first” culture and protect our reputation for customer support and success as we grow.
  
• Manage and nurture. Establish Estuary’s engineering management culture. Develop and organize the existing Applications team (a mix of early career through decades of experience), hire to meet scaling project needs, and tap your experience to layer the right structures and processes at the right time.
  
• Partner tightly. Work with the co-founders and leads for compliance, marketing, sales, and support to develop our shared roadmap, refine scope into clear engineering commitments, set expectations, sequence work, and surface risks.
  
• Operational excellence. Develop and champion quality standards and strategies for risk minimization. Improve development processes and experience.
  
• Hiring engine. Own the engineering candidate lifecycle: sourcing, screening, interview structure, scoring, and onboarding. Work with in-house recruiting to achieve sustainable growth of exceptional hires.
  
• Be a player‑coach. You’ll read design proposals, ask the right questions, build prototypes, and contribute code occasionally to stay on top of Estuary’s technology stack—this is not a pure people‑ops role, but requires honed judgement for “do” vs “delegate”.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years in platform engineering with 3–5+ years leading teams; experience managing 8–20 engineers across 2–4 pods.
• Proven ability to lead, introduce structure, and nurture engineering excellence across multiple teams in a complex domain, preferably B2B.
• Evidence of hiring and leveling senior ICs and tech leads; manager‑of‑managers experience a plus.
• Ability to communicate at all levels, and discuss nuanced technical concepts with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience leading and organizing incident response in high stakes settings.
• Familiarity and interest in techniques for building data-intensive applications and platforms.

How we work

• High autonomy; engineers own the full feature lifecycle and often engage directly with users.
• Remote‑first, Slack‑centric, async‑friendly with VCs as needed
• Global team with a skew towards east-coast working hours

Compensation & leveling

Market‑competitive cash + equity.

At Estuary, we’re building the infrastructure that powers real-time data movement — helping companies sync, transform, and operationalize data across databases, warehouses, and streaming systems.

Following a $17M Series A led by M13, we’re entering the next phase of growth — expanding the product, scaling the team, and continuing to build and scale our core data platform. 

We’re hiring a founding Product Manager to help shape what we build and why.  You’ll work directly with our founders, engineers, and customers to define product direction across the core platform — from control plane to connectors to user experience.

This is an early, high-impact role where you’ll directly shape what we build next.

This is not a “process PM” role. You’ll be expected to form strong opinions, get close to users, and drive decisions in a fast-moving, highly technical environment — with the autonomy to move quickly and the responsibility to get it right. 

What You’ll Do

• Contribute to product direction across key areas of the platform, including but not limited to:
  • Control plane (workflow orchestration, management, reliability)
  • Connector ecosystem (source/destination integrations, developer experience)
  • User experience (UI, onboarding, usability of complex workflows)
  • AI-driven features and tooling, helping users automate, optimize, or gain insights from real-time data
• Work directly with customers and prospects to deeply understand their data infrastructure use cases and translate that into product priorities.
• Develop PRDs which disentangle the complex relationships between systems we connect with and our product to speed up engineering implementations and align them with customer needs.
• Partner closely with engineering to define, scope, and ship features
• Effectively prioritize limited resources to ensure we utilize them as efficiently as possible to deliver customer value.
• Develop and communicate product roadmap and priorities, bringing clarity to what we’re building and why
• Act as a connective layer across the company, aligning engineering, go-to-market, and leadership around product direction

What We’re Looking For

• 4–8 years of experience in product management, engineering, or a highly technical, product-adjacent role
• Experience working on developer tools, data infrastructure, or technical products (e.g. data pipelines, databases, APIs, cloud infrastructure)
• A strong capability to apply modern AI tools to the product lifecycle
• Proven track record of working closely with engineering teams to ship products
• Thrives in ambiguity and early-stage environments with a curious outlook and get it done no matter what attitude
• Track record of talking to users, uncovering real problems, and turning those insights into product direction

Nice to Have

• Background in data engineering, analytics, or distributed systems
• Experience building or working with connectors, ETL/ELT pipelines, or streaming systems
• Early-stage startup experience

Why Estuary

• Work directly with the founding team on core product decisions
• Own meaningful product surface area from day one
• Small, high-performing team — low process, high ownership
• Remote-first with quarterly offsites in places like Miami, Boulder, and Austin
• Competitive compensation and equity

Estuary unifies change data capture, batch pipelines, and streaming into one platform.  Teams use us to move and transform data across their stack in real time, without stitching together separate ETL, replication, and streaming tools.

We work with modern data and platform teams who need reliable pipelines, predictable costs, and flexible deployment options.

Your Opportunity

As Estuary's first Customer Success Manager, you'll own the post-sale relationship for our customers: data engineers, platform leads, and the teams who depend on Estuary to keep their pipelines running. 

It's a hybrid role, part relationship owner, part technical problem-solver.  You'll be the person customers trust to keep them successful, and technical enough to resolve most issues yourself. 

This is a rare build-it-yourself opportunity. There's no playbook sitting on a shelf waiting for you, because it doesn't exist yet. You'll invent it: how we onboard customers, how we track account health, and how we turn happy customers into champions and expansion revenue. 

You won't just be filling a seat, you'll be laying the foundation of a function you'll grow and lead as we scale.

What You'll Do

• Build our Customer Success function from the ground up: onboarding, health monitoring, and the account management playbook.

• Own the post-sale customer journey, from onboarding through renewal and expansion.

• Be the primary point of contact for your accounts, building real relationships and running business reviews that go beyond a status update.

• Use AI tools to build dashboards and health-monitoring views for account status, usage, and risk.

• Track key stakeholders at each account and have a plan for onboarding new contacts when roles change.

• Monitor account health and get ahead of risk before it becomes a churn or renewal problem.

• Troubleshoot and resolve most technical issues yourself, day-to-day.

• Know when to loop in Solutions Engineering, and hand off cleanly with the right context.

• Identify and drive expansion opportunities: new use cases, new teams, new pipelines.

• Act as the customer's internal advocate, routing feedback to Product and Engineering.

What You'll Bring

• Experience in customer success, technical account management, or a similar role, ideally at a SaaS, data infrastructure, or dev tools company.

• A real builder's instinct. You've either built a CS function or process before, or you're itching to, and you don't need a playbook handed to you to know what good looks like.

• Genuine comfort with technical concepts: APIs, databases, warehouses, ETL/ELT. Enough to troubleshoot and hold your own in a technical conversation.

• Comfort using AI tools to build reporting, dashboards, or health-monitoring systems from scratch. You don't need to be an engineer, but you should be resourceful enough to build the tooling you need rather than wait for someone to build it for you.

• Strong account management instinct: you build trust, spot risk early, and turn happy customers into advocates and expansion opportunities.

• Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to translate technical detail into business value.

• A proactive, ownership-driven approach: you notice risk or opportunity before it's escalated to you.

Nice to Have

• Experience with tools like Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Kafka, Fivetran, or Airbyte.

• Early-stage startup experience, ideally as an early or first CS hire.

• Familiarity with CDC or streaming architectures.

Why Estuary?

• Build the Customer Success function from the ground up, reporting directly to our CEO, with real potential to grow and lead a team as we scale.

• Collaborative, high-performing team pushing the envelope in data infrastructure.

• Early-stage startup: your limit is your imagination, not your job description.

• Remote-first culture with autonomy.

• Quarterly offsites in places like Miami, Boulder, and Austin.

• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits.

Experience: 8+ Years

Estuary is a real-time data integration platform built for both fast-moving developers and large-scale enterprises. We combine change data capture (CDC), stream processing, and declarative configuration into a unified system that simplifies complex data movement. With Estuary, teams build reliable, low-latency pipelines—without the overhead of managing data infrastructure.

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join our Capture or Materialization teams. These teams are the bridge between Estuary and the rest of the data ecosystem. You will be responsible for building the high-performance connectors that extract data from diverse sources and reliably load it into downstream destinations.

Success in this role requires a blend of low-level systems engineering and high-level product intuition. You won't just be connecting endpoints; you’ll be deeply investigating how different SaaS platforms and databases behave, uncovering their unique constraints, and architecting robust ways to move their data in real time. This is a polyglot engineering environment. While much of our connector ecosystem is built in Go, we also leverage Python and Rust where they are the best tool for the job. 

What You’ll Do

• Master SaaS & Protocol Internals: Deeply research and understand the "behavior" of SaaS APIs (e.g., Salesforce, Stripe, NetSuite) and database protocols. You’ll determine the most robust ways to interact with them, considering rate limits, consistency models, and hidden edge cases.
• Build Polyglot Integrations: Design and maintain robust, scalable connectors written primarily in Go, while also contributing to or maintaining components in Python and Rust.
• Architect for Reliability: Build systems that handle distributed state, "exactly-once" delivery guarantees, and sophisticated backpressure management to ensure data is never lost or duplicated.
• Navigate Technical Entropy: Bridge the gap between the "messy" reality of external APIs and the high-performance requirements of the Estuary core engine.
• Collaborate & Mentor: Participate in technical design docs and code reviews, helping the team maintain high standards for performance, correctness, and developer experience.

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience: You have a track record of building and operating production-grade systems at scale.
• Pragmatic Polyglot: You are highly proficient in Go, but you are also comfortable working in (or learning) Python and Rust. You care about using the right tool for the specific integration challenge.
• Systems Thinking: You enjoy "detective work"—digging into third-party documentation and API behavior to understand how to build a truly reliable integration.
• Data Fluency: You understand the nuances of data movement—including checkpointing, schema drift, and the trade-offs between different consistency models.
• Strong Fundamentals: A deep understanding of concurrency, memory management, and networking (gRPC, TCP/IP).
• Clear Communication: Ability to explain complex technical trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Practical Experience: While a degree can be helpful, we value equivalent practical experience and your demonstrated ability to solve hard problems at scale.

We know that excellence comes in many forms. If you don’t meet 100% of these qualifications but have a strong systems background and are excited about what we’re building, we encourage you to apply.

Bonus Points For

• Experience with Rust: We use Rust in our core engine, so familiarity with it (or a strong desire to learn) is a plus.
• Data Infrastructure Background: Experience with Change Data Capture (CDC), Kafka, Flink, or similar streaming technologies.
• Open Source Contributions: Experience contributing to or maintaining data-centric open-source projects.
• Startup Grit: Experience in fast-paced environments where you’ve balanced rapid iteration with long-term system stability.

Why Estuary?

Estuary is VC-backed and led by experienced, repeat founders. We are building a diverse, low-ego team that values ownership, fast iteration, and mutual respect.

We offer:

• Competitive compensation, equity, and full benefits.
• Flexible remote work with a culture that respects work-life boundaries.
• A high-autonomy environment where your contributions have a direct impact on the product.
• Quarterly team offsites in cities like Miami, Austin, Boulder, and New Orleans to build community and connection.

Department: Marketing
Reports to: VP Marketing
Compensation: Base + Equity + Benefits

About Estuary

Estuary is reshaping how the world moves data. Our right time data platform unifies CDC, batch, and streaming into one dependable system, eliminating the need to stitch together fragmented ETL and replication tools. We are also one of the first data infrastructure companies shipping into the AI agent stack. Our skills library plugs directly into Claude, Cursor, and other assistants, turning Estuary into a tool agents can actually use. Telling that story to data teams is part of why this PMM role exists.

We help data teams build modern, real-time infrastructure that powers analytics, operations, and AI without the complexity and cost of legacy tools. Backed by top investors and led by experienced repeat founders in data infrastructure, we recently raised a $17M Series A led by M13.

As organizations shift toward right-time architectures, the market is moving fast, and we are too. We are looking for a Product Marketing Manager who can help us define what we stand for, sharpen how we sell, and build the connective tissue between product, sales, and the enterprise data community.

The Role

This is a foundational PMM hire. You will work directly with the VP Marketing, the founders, and the sales team to translate a technical platform into a story that data teams want to buy and champions can repeat without us in the room.

You will partner with the VP Marketing on positioning and messaging, and own competitive intelligence, sales enablement, launches, partner marketing, customer case studies, and ongoing buyer research. Your work will shape how Estuary is perceived against Fivetran, Airbyte, Confluent, and the broader modern data stack, and how our sales team wins against them in real deals.

This is not a role for someone looking to execute against an existing playbook. We are building the playbook. You will need strong opinions, the ability to write clearly about technical products, and the discipline to ship sharp work fast.

What You'll Do

• Lead product launches and feature rollouts in partnership with Product and Engineering, owning the messaging, asset development, and go-to-market sequencing.
• Partner with the VP Marketing on positioning and messaging for the platform, our deployment options, and key use cases (CDC, real-time analytics, AI pipelines, data warehouse modernization), turning the strategic direction into the artifacts, copy, and proof points the rest of the company uses.
• Run buyer and customer research through call transcript analysis, customer interviews, and primary research to keep our messaging grounded in how data teams actually talk.  
• Develop ICP-aligned narratives for our core buyer personas: data engineers, data architects, and data platform leaders.  Pair each persona with the use cases that matter most to them, including CDC, real-time analytics, AI pipelines, and data warehouse modernization.
• Own customer case studies and proof points: drive the pipeline of new stories from sales handoff through publication, and weave named customers into our broader narrative.
• Build the competitive intelligence program across the data integration, CD, and streaming ecosystem, including battle cards, win/loss insights, and field-ready talk tracks.
• Drive sales enablement by partnering closely with our Head of Sales, AEs, and Sales Engineers to equip the team with the narratives, objection handling, and proof points they need to close.
• Lead partner marketing for our ecosystem (Snowflake, Databricks, cloud providers, and others), owning joint positioning, co-marketing campaigns, and partner-aligned content.
• Partner with Marketing on the editorial direction of high-value content, including thought leadership, the comparison hub, and analyst-facing materials.

What You Bring

• 3–5 years of B2B PMM experience at a data infrastructure, dev tools, or modern data stack company. Experience with ETL, CDC, streaming, or data integration platforms is strongly preferred.
• Fluency in the modern data stack: you understand the difference between batch ETL, ELT, CDC, and streaming, and you can hold your own in a technical conversation with a data engineer or platform lead.
• Strong writing and editing chops: you can produce a one-pager, a launch blog, a video demo, a battle card, and a sales narrative without needing heavy editing.
• Sales partnership instinct: you know how to build trust with AEs and SEs, and you treat enablement as a craft, not a deck delivery.
• Customer interviewing skills: you have run discovery calls, transcript analysis, or formal buyer research and know how to extract sharp insight from messy input.
• Bias toward shipping: you can move from a blank page to a usable artifact quickly, and you know when something is good enough to put in front of a customer.
• Editorial judgment: you can hold a consistent voice across a wide content surface, and you push back on jargon, hype words, and weak language.

Bonus Points If You

• Have shipped a launch at a data infrastructure or dev tools company that materially moved pipeline.
• Have worked closely with technically focused buyers at larger organizations and understand how technical evaluation cycles actually unfold.
• Have experience supporting partner ecosystems (Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar).
• Have built a competitive program from scratch, including primary research, win/loss, and battle card systems.
• Have used AI tooling (Claude, ChatGPT, perplexity, Notion AI, etc.) to accelerate research, drafting, and competitive workflows.

Why Estuary

• Foundational PMM seat: you will define the function, not inherit it.
• Direct collaboration with the founders, VP Marketing, and Head of Sales.
• A category that is moving: the modern data stack is being rebuilt around real-time and AI, and we are positioned at the center of it.
• Remote-first culture with quarterly offsites in cities like Miami, Austin, Boulder, and New Orleans.
• Competitive base, equity, and full benefits.

Work Location & Travel

Estuary operates as a remote-first company. While the role is open to candidates across the US, we are prioritizing applicants based in the New York City area to support in-person collaboration with the founders and broader team.

Travel is estimated at ~10–15% for customer meetings, partner events, and company offsites.

How to Apply

Send a resume and a short note about a recent piece of PMM work you are proud of (what it was, what it changed, and what you would do differently) to careers@estuary.dev.

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Compliance Engineer to join our security and compliance function. Our SOC 2 and HIPAA programs are mature and audited. Two areas will have your attention from the start: GDPR, where EU enterprise demand keeps raising the bar across our category, and PCI DSS, which this role will lead as customer demand builds. You will drive both, while keeping the established programs running at the standard our customers expect.

This is a governance role first. You will be the person who designs the control set, automates the evidence, runs the audit cycle, keeps policy current as the company and product change, and answers the hard questions on a customer security call. The role also covers corporate IT, because identity and endpoint management are where a meaningful share of those controls operate day to day.

Success requires a blend of deep framework expertise and practical systems judgment. You will be translating abstract control language into automation and defaults engineers can work with, rather than policy that sits apart from the work.

Compliance at Estuary carries commercial weight, not just risk weight. Customers move sensitive data through our platform, and our ability to show exactly how it is protected is part of what earns that. This work is visible to customers in a way compliance often isn't.

A note on fit. This role spans governance and IT; we are looking for someone who has been the person accountable for a compliance program rather than a contributor to one, and who can also run the systems underneath it. We are not looking for a systems administrator who has been adjacent to audits. If your experience is primarily device and identity administration without program ownership, this is likely not the right role, and we would rather tell you that here than in a fourth interview.

What You'll Do

Governance and Compliance

• Deepen Our GDPR Program: Estuary exists to move customer data across systems, which puts privacy close to the product. Take our GDPR program to the depth EU enterprise buyers' counsel look for across records of processing, lawful basis, DPAs and sub-processor management, cross-border transfer mechanisms, data residency commitments, retention, and DSAR handling.
• Lead Our PCI DSS Effort: Take us to attestation as a service provider, as a planned and resourced program rather than a reaction to one deal. Scope how the platform's role in moving customer data maps to the requirements, run the gap assessment, sequence the remediation, and carry us through attestation.
• Sustain SOC 2 and HIPAA: Run the day to day of two programs with a good audit track record: continuous evidence collection, access reviews, control testing, auditor coordination, BAAs and PHI handling. Both programs are in good standing, and your job is to keep them there as the company and the product surface grow.
• Risk and Assessments: Keep our risk register and system of record current, working with the engineers and leaders who hold each risk. Run vendor and sub-processor assessments, coordinate penetration testing, and keep security awareness training on schedule.
• Keep Compliance Scope Current as the Platform Evolves: As Estuary's architecture, deployment options, and vendor footprint change, the compliance boundary moves with them. You will work out what each change means for scope, controls, and customer commitments, and keep our documentation and customer-facing answers current as it happens.
• Support Enterprise Diligence: Partner with sales on security questionnaires, vendor risk reviews, and customer audits, so buyers get accurate answers quickly. Maintain a trust center and keep our security documentation current.
• Keep Us Incident Ready: Maintain and exercise incident response, business continuity, and disaster recovery plans alongside engineering. Be the calm, organized presence when a plan has to be used.

The Systems Underneath

• Run Identity and Access: SSO and IdP administration, provisioning and deprovisioning, MFA, and least privilege. Keep extending the automation behind access reviews so they draw directly from system state.
• Run Endpoints and the SaaS Estate: Device management and MDM, endpoint security, onboarding and offboarding, vendor procurement and security review, license hygiene, and full visibility into the SaaS estate.
• Automate the Evidence Path: Extend our compliance automation and evidence collection so controls stay continuously satisfied by default and keep shrinking the set that needs manual effort.

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years in compliance, GRC, or security governance: You have personally carried organizations through audits and come out the other side, at companies where the product was the thing being audited. Program ownership is the requirement here, not audit participation.
• You Have Built, Not Just Maintained: You have stood up at least one compliance program from close to nothing. You know what the first ninety days look like, which gaps matter, and how to sequence remediation when everything is technically a finding.
• SOC 2 Depth: You have run a SOC 2 Type II through a full audit cycle, and you know the difference between a control that passes and a control that works.
• Privacy Fluency: You are genuinely comfortable with GDPR mechanics: data processing agreements, lawful basis, transfer mechanisms, sub-processor management, and data residency. Not just familiar with the acronym.
• Policy and Judgment: You write policy that is precise enough to audit against and practical enough for the team to work with, you can make and document a defensible risk acceptance decision, and you can explain your reasoning to an auditor and stand behind it.
• Hands-On Systems Ownership: You have run identity, device, and SaaS administration for a distributed company yourself. You are as comfortable in an IdP admin console as you are in an audit workbook.
• Systems Thinking: You enjoy detective work: tracing how a system behaves under load, where data moves and who can reach it, and where documented process and lived process diverge.
• Engineering Empathy: You can read a cloud architecture diagram, hold your own with engineers about infrastructure and access controls, and design controls that hold up without slowing delivery.
• Clear Communication: Ability to explain complex compliance trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including a prospect's CISO on a live call.
• Practical Experience: Certifications like CISSP, CISA, or CIPP/E are welcome. What we weigh most heavily is a track record of programs you have run end to end.

We know that excellence comes in many forms. If you don't meet 100% of these qualifications but have carried a compliance program through a full audit cycle and are excited about what we're building, we encourage you to apply.

Bonus Points For

• Direct PCI DSS Experience: Hands-on with PCI scoping, cardholder data environments, and the SAQ or ROC process, especially as a service provider rather than a merchant.
• ISO 27001: Experience building toward or maintaining certification, and mapping a shared control set across overlapping frameworks.
• Data Infrastructure Context: Experience supporting a data platform, ETL or CDC vendor, or a similar company where customer data is the product surface.
• Compliance Automation Tooling: Hands-on with platforms like Vanta, Drata, or Secureframe, and clear eyed about where they help and where they don't.
• Public Sector Exposure: Familiarity with FedRAMP, StateRAMP, or NIST 800-53, enough to tell us honestly what that path would demand.
• Startup Grit: Experience in fast-paced environments where you've balanced rapid iteration with durable process.

Why Estuary?

Estuary is VC-backed and led by experienced, repeat founders. We are building a diverse, low-ego team that values ownership, fast iteration, and mutual respect.

We offer:

• Competitive compensation, equity, and full benefits.
• Flexible remote work with a culture that respects work-life boundaries.
• A high-autonomy environment where your contributions have a direct impact on the product.
• Quarterly team offsites in cities like Miami,

About Estuary

Estuary is reshaping how the world moves data. Our right time data platform unifies CDC, batch, and streaming into one dependable system, eliminating the need to stitch together fragmented ETL and replication tools. We are also one of the first data infrastructure companies shipping into the AI agent stack. Our skills library plugs directly into Claude, Cursor, and other assistants, turning Estuary into a tool agents can actually use.

We help data teams build modern, real-time infrastructure that powers analytics, operations, and AI without the complexity and cost of legacy tools. Backed by top investors and led by experienced repeat founders in data infrastructure, we recently raised a $17M Series A led by M13.

As organizations shift toward right-time architectures, the market is moving fast, and we are too. We are looking for a contract technical writer who can translate this platform into deep, useful content that data teams actually want to read and that ranks for the queries our buyers run when they are evaluating tools.

The Role

This is a senior contract seat for a writer who can grasp technical concepts quickly and translate them into content that engineers respect. You will work directly with the VP Marketing, our SEO and growth marketing lead to produce technical blog content on data pipelines, streaming architecture, and the data infrastructure powering agentic and operational AI.

This is not a role for a generalist content writer who needs an engineer to translate every concept. We are looking for someone who can read a technical spec or sit in a 30-minute call with a product engineer and walk away ready to write. You will need strong opinions, the discipline to ship on agreed dates, and the ability to write clearly about complex infrastructure.

What You'll Do

• Rewrite and produce technical blog posts (typically 1,500–3,000 words) 
• Build hands-on tutorials with working code and reproducible setups
• Produce evaluation guides and architectural comparison content
• Provide editorial polish on all deliverables
• Partner with our SEO and content leads to align deliverables with search intent and pillar strategy

What You Bring

• A portfolio of published technical writing that demonstrates depth and a distinct point of view
• The ability to grasp technical concepts quickly and explain them clearly. You can pick up a new system, read the docs, ask the right questions, and produce content that holds up under technical scrutiny
• Comfort writing about infrastructure and AI topics without hand-waving or filler
• Strong writing and editing chops: you can produce a tutorial, a deep dive, and a comparison piece without heavy editing
• Bias toward shipping: you move from a blank page to a publishable draft quickly and know when something is ready
• Self-directed working style and reliable turnaround on agreed deliverable dates
• Editorial judgment: you push back on jargon, hype words, and weak language

Bonus Points If You

• Have a data engineering, developer relations, or developer-facing engineering background
• Have worked at a data infrastructure, dev tools, or modern data stack company
• Have built or contributed to open source data infrastructure projects
• Have a conference talk, community-building, or DevRel track record
• Have written content that ranks for competitive technical search queries
• Have used AI tooling (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, perplexity) to accelerate research and drafting workflows

Why Estuary

• A category that is moving: the modern data stack is being rebuilt around real-time and AI, and we are positioned at the center of it
• Genuinely interesting technical surface area, with room to go deep on the topics you find most compelling
• Remote, project-based, and flexible by design

Engagement Details

• Contract, project-based with flexible hours
• Per-deliverable rate, scoped at kickoff based on length and complexity
• Fully remote, US-based or US-time-zone friendly preferred
• Immediate start

How to Apply

Send a short note, your rate expectations, and 2–3 writing samples that demonstrate technical depth.