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title: 'Member of Technical Staff - Data at Favorited'
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# Member of Technical Staff - Data at Favorited

- **Company:** Favorited
- **Location:** Santa Monica, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/favorited/76878d1f-85fe-4bf3-9193-9d1fff90810a

## Job description

Job Title: Member of Technical Staff - Data Location: Santa Monica, CA (On-site) Employment Type: Full-time Level: Senior Company: favorited

## ABOUT FAVORITED

At favorited, we believe that digital communities should be more than just spaces to watch content. Our platform is a place to connect, engage, and play, and empowers creators by enhancing audience participation and fostering deeper connections.

Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But, if you’re a self-starter eager to shape the future of social interaction with a team that holds itself to the highest standards, this is the place for you. We value open, yet respectful communication and real-time feedback to help each other grow quickly. If you’re passionate about gaming and have a knack for gamifying everyday life, you’ll thrive in our fast-moving, collaborative environment.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

We’re looking for a Member of Technical Staff to build the data foundation that powers critical areas of favorited, including Trust & Safety, Fraud, and user, creator, and application analytics.

This is a high-impact, 0-to-1 role for someone who has experience standing up data environments for live-service, consumer-focused products. You’ll work closely with product and engineering teams to build the systems, infrastructure, and analytical capabilities needed to understand our users, creators, and platform—and make better decisions as we scale.

## RESPONSIBILITIES

- Build and scale data infrastructure and environments from 0 → 1 to support a rapidly growing consumer product.
- Develop data systems that support Trust & Safety, fraud detection, and user and creator analytics.
- Create reliable data pipelines and foundational datasets that enable product, engineering, and operational decision-making.
- Partner closely with product and engineering teams to understand business and technical requirements and translate them into scalable data solutions.
- Support analytics across user behavior, creator engagement, application performance, and platform health.
- Develop data capabilities that help identify suspicious behavior, abuse, fraud, and other Trust & Safety risks.
- Establish strong standards for data quality, reliability, documentation, and accessibility.
- Build systems that can evolve with a rapidly changing live-service consumer product and its growing data volume.
- Identify opportunities to improve how teams access, understand, and act on data.
- Work autonomously to identify high-impact problems, prioritize solutions, and drive projects from concept through implementation.

## WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

- 5+ years of experience working in data engineering, data infrastructure, analytics engineering, or a related technical role.
- Proven experience building 0 → 1 data environments for consumer-facing products or internal teams.
- Experience supporting live-service products with rapidly changing requirements and continuously evolving data.
- Strong understanding of data pipelines, data modeling, data infrastructure, and analytics systems.
- Experience partnering closely with product and engineering teams.
- Strong ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy, ownership, and accountability.
- Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills, with the ability to prioritize high-impact work in an ambiguous environment.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to translate complex technical concepts for cross-functional partners.
- A product-oriented mindset and curiosity about how users and creators interact with a platform.

Nice to Have:

- Experience with Trust & Safety, fraud, risk, or abuse detection.
- Experience working with gaming, social, livestreaming, or other highly interactive consumer products.
- Experience building data systems that support millions of users.
- Familiarity with real-time or event-driven data architectures.
- Experience developing analytics capabilities for both internal teams and customer-facing products.

## SALARY & BENEFITS

Compensation: $145k - $185k base salary + equity

Benefits Include:

- Unlimited PTO to prioritize work-life balance.
- 401(k) plan to invest in your future.
- Comprehensive health insurance to support your well-being.
- Paid company holidays for time to recharge.
- Competitive salary that values your expertise and contributions.

Where You’ll Work: This is a full-time, on-site position in Santa Monica.

EEOC Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

## About Favorited

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Favorited is a creator-first interactive live-streaming platform that makes live content more fun, personal, and engaging for both creators and their audiences.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed, Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Santa Monica, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: David Tesler (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Social/Platform Software, Media and Information Services (B2B), Mobile Computing Software
- **Target customers**: B2C (live-streaming creators and their viewers), with strong focus on gaming and interactive content communities
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Make live content more fun, personal, and interactive — for you and your audience.”

## Products & Services
- **[Favorited Platform]**: An interactive live-streaming application that provides tools for creators to engage with their audience in real-time, build a following, and boost earnings through gamification and in-app interactions. Type: SaaS / Mobile App.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised — $2.05M (Seed rounds: $1.3M in Jan 2025, $750K accelerator in 2022)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Abstract Ventures, Hacker Fellowship Zero, Integra Groupe, Parable Partners Management, Soma Ventures (PitchBook). A recent TechCrunch article also mentions backing from a16z, though this is not reflected in PitchBook’s investor list (conflicting reports).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew ~685% YoY to ~45-50 employees (LinkedIn/PitchBook). Recent news coverage (Jan 2025) and a rapidly expanding user base. Presence in US, Czechia, Canada, and UK.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Creator-first design** with built-in monetization and audience engagement tools (e.g., in-app characters, gamified interactions).
- **Real-time, interactive experience** that differentiates from passive live-streaming platforms.
- **Strong technical foundation** using modern infrastructure (Kubernetes, GCP, real-time streaming, event-driven architecture).

## Strategic Focus
- Empowering creators to reduce content creation burden and increase earnings.
- Expanding global user base and deepening community features.
- Scaling platform reliability and performance to support high-traffic, real-time applications.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-paced, intense, and collaborative environment. Values open, respectful communication and real-time feedback. Ideal for self-starters passionate about gaming and social interaction.
- **Work Model**: Full-time, on-site position in Santa Monica, CA.
- **Notable Perks**: Unlimited PTO, comprehensive health insurance, 401(k) plan, paid company holidays, competitive salary + equity options (e.g., SRE role $150K–$200K base).
- **Engineering Culture**: Modern tech stack (GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, Python, Go, TypeScript). Emphasis on reliability, scalability, and automation.

## Sources
1. [favorited.com](https://www.favorited.com/)
2. [Jobs at Favorited (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/favorited/406e86ad-92de-4238-85c0-fc55920346f0)
3. [PitchBook - Favorited Profile](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/527370-13)
4. [LinkedIn - Favorited](https://www.linkedin.com/company/favapp)

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