Data Engineer (Growth) at daydream

✍🏻 About daydream

daydream is a platform that automates programmatic SEO, end-to-end.

***This role is fully in-person in San Francisco. No remote work!***

The platform helps businesses identify search patterns, creates content at scale, and automatically improves that content.

We've raised $6.2M from leading investors like First Round Capital, Basis Set Ventures, WndrCo, SOMA Capital and current and former Heads of Growth at companies like Notion, Airtable, Webflow and Dropbox as well as notable angels like Lenny Rachitsky and Eli Schwartz, Author of Product-Led SEO. Our customers include Descript, Clay, Beacons and a host of other venture-backed companies.

We're on a high-growth trajectory and we're looking for people who want to join us on the journey to building a billion-dollar company. Our team previously worked together at Flixed, a startup we bootstrapped to $2M+ in revenue almost purely on the back of programmatic SEO.

More reading:

• Our $3.8M seed raise announcement

• Our $2.5M pre-seed raise announcement

• Our feature in Axios

• Our founding story

🔧 The Problem we’re trying to solve

Heads of Growth love programmatic SEO. It’s the secret growth playbook used by companies like Zapier, Canva, to acquire millions of visitors. The problem is, building a pSEO engine currently requires work from SEO analysts, content marketers, software engineers, data scientists and others. As a result, it’s logistically complicated and expensive. You can hire specialized agencies, but they cost $50K+ per month.

🧑‍💻 How we’re solving this problem

daydream is building a SaaS platform that automates every piece of building a programmatic SEO engine. Everything from identifying search queries, to producing 90th percentile quality content at scale, all the way to automatically updating that content.

🪴 Why we’re hiring

Demand for daydream is growing fast as our ARR continues to increase rapidly each month since the inception of our company, all before launching a generally available product. This is exciting, but it also means we need to hire to build product faster and meet the demand. We’re looking for a talent that’s excited to work with LLMs to serve one of the biggest markets in the world.

👋🏻 The People and Environment

Here are three key elements of our culture:

• Push the pace

  • No sandbagging allowed! Everyone at daydream is expected to proactively identify when a particular goal can be met faster, and to push for acceleration.

  • A real example of how this value has been applied — we initially thought we would hit a certain revenue milestone within 1 year. We realized we can do it in half the time, so we shortened our timeline to hit that goal to 5 months instead.

• Build something you’re proud of

  • Speed of execution is important, but only if it’s in service of delivering a delightful experience to the customer. We want you to look back at what you’ve built at daydream and feel a deep sense of satisfaction.

  • A real example of how this value has been applied — In the past, we’ve prioritized “wowing” the customer at each release of daydream, even at the earliest phases. Speed is no excuse for delivering a poor experience.

• Five star customer service only

  • The bar for customer service at daydream is always exceeding the customer’s expectations. It is not “meeting” the customer’s expectations.

  • A real example of how this value has been applied — We’ve had situations where the customer is unintentionally moving slower than is possible with their SEO strategy. In these situations, we’ve proactively encouraged the customer to move faster.

🤝 The people you’ll be working with

Thenuka (CEO and co-founder): Thenuka was previously the founder and CEO at Flixed, which he bootstrapped to $2M+ in revenue almost exclusively using programmatic SEO. Prior to that he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Hustle Fund and Chief of Staff to the COO at Pango, a cybersecurity company with $100M+ in annual revenue.

Shravan (CTO and co-founder): Shravan was previously an Engineering Lead at Flixed. Before that, Shravan worked as a Software Engineer at Meta for three years, where he worked on mass-scale web scraping for Facebooks’ Jobs product, and Meta Reality Labs.

Nico (Growth Lead): When Nico is not working on daydream, he's writing for his newsletter, Failory, where he explores the reasons why startups fail. He started Failory when he was 15 years old and has since grown it to 40k subscribers.

Devin (Operations Lead): Before daydream, Devin worked at an education startup called buildspace, an online alternative learning platform for people to work on their ideas they loved. There, he focused on building the community by helping produce and manage social media content, as well as hold in-person events across the world.

📝 What we're looking for

Required

• Experience in web automation and data scraping.

• A strong work ethic, beginner's mind, and desire to learn quickly.

• Neat, organized, and punctual adherence to deadlines.

• A positive attitude and shared sense of camaraderie.

Ideal

• Experience specializing in SEO is preferred but not required.

👷🏻‍♀️ What you’ll be doing here

You’ll play a key role in building the foundation of our data-driven approach to programmatic SEO, working closely with customers and internal teams to create scalable, high-quality datasets.

Ownership Areas

• Creative data collection: Identify and leverage APIs, web scraping techniques, and other automation methods to gather structured data that powers our programmatic SEO strategies.

• Data cleaning & normalization: Ensure data accuracy by cleaning, deduplicating, and structuring datasets in a way that makes them usable.

• Automation & efficiency: Develop reusable scripts and workflows to automate repetitive data collection and processing tasks, improving efficiency and scalability.

1 month

• Build context: Get to know our team, our customers, and the role data plays in driving our programmatic SEO strategies.

• Learn the product: Develop a deep understanding of how our product is used to scale data-driven content strategies.

• Begin data collection: Start identifying key datasets, experimenting with API connections, and setting up early-stage scraping workflows.

3 months

• Expand data collection capabilities: Identify new data sources and collaborate with customers and internal team to collect and structure data relevant to the different pSEO strategies.

• Refine & automate workflows: Develop reusable scripts and processes to streamline data collection, cleaning, and normalization.

• Collaborate on new use cases: Work with engineering and growth teams to explore additional ways data can drive innovation and efficiency across our platform.

6-9 months

• Support new hires: As a fast growing company, we will likely expand our team further in 6-9 months. You’ll help onboard new hires and help them get up to speed with daydream.

🏦 Compensation

The compensation for this role is $110-$140K per year + generous equity in daydream. We usually prefer to have a full-time or part-time contract period before going straight to a full-time W-2 role.