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title: 'Senior Data Engineer at Linkup'
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# Senior Data Engineer at Linkup

- **Company:** Linkup
- **Location:** Nyc NY San Francisco CA OR Paris, France
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2025-11-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/linkup/59471e25-bcfe-4471-bf87-7e3c7b644107

## Job description

## ABOUT THE ROLE

We’re looking for a top-tier Senior Data Engineer to join our tech team and work hand-in-hand with our CTO, Denis Charrier, and the rest of the tech team.

Your core responsibilities will be to:

- Build and operate large-scale, high-throughput data pipelines powering AI-ready web search
- Design and maintain distributed ETL / ELT workflows for web indexing, embeddings, and analytics
- Develop and optimize data ingestion and transformation systems across structured and unstructured sources
- Manage and scale data storage layers (SQL, NoSQL, and object stores) for performance and reliability
- Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to system design for data infrastructure
- Collaborate with ML and backend teams to deliver high-quality, real-time data for ranking and retrieval
- Write clean, maintainable code and participate in code reviews

## REQUIREMENTS

You’re a great match if you:

- Are excited to help build Google for AI agents — and believe in Linkup’s mission
- Have strong experience in data engineering or backend development (3y minimum)
- Understand distributed systems, data modeling, and streaming architectures
- Care about data quality, observability, and system reliability
- Enjoy debugging tough pipeline issues and optimizing for latency or throughput
- Are curious about AI infrastructure, indexing systems, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Thrive in a fast-paced, high-ownership startup environment

## EXAMPLE PROJECTS

- Stream and transform billions of web facts per day under strict freshness SLAs (< 5 min)
- Build a real-time data lake to serve embeddings, metadata, and ranking features to LLMs
- Design fault-tolerant pipelines for continuous crawling, deduplication, and enrichment
- Develop internal tools to monitor and profile data flows across terabytes of web-scale content

## OUR STACK

- Node.js / NestJS
- Python
- Java
- PostgreSQL
- OpenSearch
- Vespa
- Apache Storm
- Kubernetes
- GitHub Actions
- Terraform

## DETAILS

The ideal candidate will play a central role in our engineering team, partnering closely with the founders to spearhead groundbreaking products. Your expertise will shape the future of AI‑powered applications and bring our vision to life.

We offer a flexible remote‑work policy- see the details here https://www.notion.so/Linkup-Remote-Work-Policy-d593322ac4c84988b1c7c327d6c4d39e?pvs=21.

Join us and leverage your expertise to push the boundaries of AI!

## ABOUT LINKUP

## OUR VISION

We believe in a future of AI agents and the agentic web. These digital entities can create more value for humanity than we ever could alone, but they depend on the internet to operate, collaborate, take action, and gather information.

AI agents need web search. To perform well, they require information that is current, reliable, and context‑specific—not the diffuse, steadily aging knowledge frozen at their last training cut‑off.

Modern web search is built for humans, not AIs. Instead of trusted facts, it serves links, ads, and click‑bait. People want visually engaging pages; AI systems need structured truth. An AI can absorb oceans of data, while human attention barely skims the surface. Humans think visually and intuitively; AI reasons in latent space.

Web 2.0 is sunsetting. The deck is being reshuffled, and the Bing‑Google search oligopoly is crumbling. Indexing ever more pages is no longer the goal; semantically organizing facts for AI systems is. In the coming agentic web, Google’s ad‑driven model has no natural home.

Search for AI must be rebuilt from the ground up. We are reconstructing the web as a rigorously structured knowledge layer, mapping every concept, entity, and claim into a coherent semantic graph. This foundation delivers verified facts and rich context to AI instantly, unlocking faster reasoning, higher accuracy, and radically more useful answers for everyone.

Humans search Google; AI searches Linkup.

## OUR MISSION

Reality never stands still, and neither should intelligence. Linkup reconnects language models to a living stream of verified facts, ensuring AIs remain as current and insightful as the world they serve.

Our mission is to deliver the world’s freshest, most trusted knowledge to AIs.

## OUR CULTURE

Our culture is built on the following values:

- Mission. We believe we play a critical role in building the agentic web. We are 100% committed to our mission of bringing the reality of the world to AI agents.
- Speed. We build fast, we build to last. We get things done, well.
- Ownership. We empower every team member to take ownership of their projects, ensuring they see them through to successful completion.
- Teamwork. Our strength lies in our unity. We rely on one another and embrace our diversity as a core asset.
- Humility. We maintain low egos, showing respect for others and continuously learning from their insights and experiences.

We expect all team member to take an active role in shaping our company culture.

## OUR TEAM

We are small technical team, working shoulder to shoulder to build the web of agents.

A bit more about our 3 co-founders:

- Philippe Mizrahi https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippe-mizrahi/- Led the development of Lyft’s Autonomous Vehicles marketplace. Previously launched Amundsen https://www.amundsen.io/, an open source search engine.
- Denis Charrier https://www.linkedin.com/in/denis-charrier/- Founding Engineer at Niland, an audio search company (acquired by Spotify), then Staff Engineer at Spotify. 15y of software development experience.
- Boris Toledano https://www.linkedin.com/in/boris-toledano-7b53a496/- Led robotics at Carrefour, after 3y at McKinsey & Co working on public affairs and digital transformation.

## About Linkup

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Linkup builds a production-grade, AI-native web search API that indexes individual facts rather than entire pages, enabling AI systems to retrieve accurate, structured, and real-time information.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Paris, France (with offices in New York, NY and San Francisco, CA)
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Philippe Mizrahi (CEO), Denis S. (CTO), Boris (COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: AI Infrastructure, Enterprise Search, Web Search API
- **Target customers**: B2B — AI labs, Fortune 500 enterprises, government agencies, and developers building AI agents, copilots, and research tools
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Build the search infrastructure that lets AI act with real knowledge of the world"

## Products & Services
- **Linkup API**: A production-grade web search API built natively for AI. It indexes "atoms of information" (individual facts with source, timestamp, and credibility markers) rather than whole web pages. Available via a single API call, with sub-second latency and state-of-the-art accuracy. [linkup.so](https://www.linkup.so/)
- **Linkup `/fast`**: The world's most accurate sub-second web search API for AI systems, launched in March 2026. Delivers extracted, verified, and structured information directly — not links. [linkup.so/blog](https://www.linkup.so/blog/linkup-raises-10m-seed-to-build-web-search-for-ai)
- **Private Index (BYOC)**: A deployment option where customers run the full indexing layer inside their own cloud infrastructure for maximum control, compliance, and zero data leaving their environment. [linkup.so](https://www.linkup.so/)
- **Integrations SDK**: Works with OpenAI SDK wrapper, LangChain, CrewAI, and dozens of other frameworks. [linkup.so](https://www.linkup.so/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Raised **$10M seed round** (March 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Led by **Gradient** (VC firm founded by former founders and technical experts). Additional support from leading investors and founders from **Mistral, Datadog, Deel, and Dataiku**. Customers include **Artisan** (AI agents) and **KPMG** (enterprise). [linkup.so/blog](https://www.linkup.so/blog/linkup-raises-10m-seed-to-build-web-search-for-ai)
- **Growth Signals**: Thousands of users globally within months of API launch; 99.9% uptime SLA; trusted by Fortune 500s, frontier AI labs, and government agencies; 30% reduction in hallucinations vs. competitors; 75% adoption rate increase for customers. [linkup.so](https://www.linkup.so/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native architecture**: Rebuilt web search from scratch for AI — indexes "atoms of information" (facts, not web pages) with source, timestamp, and credibility markers. Traditional search engines return links; Linkup returns extracted, structured information ready for AI consumption. [linkup.so/blog](https://www.linkup.so/blog/linkup-raises-10m-seed-to-build-web-search-for-ai)
- **Sub-second latency + accuracy**: `/fast` API delivers state-of-the-art accuracy with sub-second response times, critical for real-time AI agents and copilots. [linkup.so](https://www.linkup.so/)
- **Private Index / BYOC**: Unique ability to deploy the entire indexing layer inside a customer's own cloud, offering maximum data security and compliance — a key differentiator for regulated industries (finance, healthcare, government). [linkup.so](https://www.linkup.so/)
- **Founding team pedigree**: CTO built neural music search engine acquired by Spotify; CEO built graph-based data search at Lyft; COO led digital transformations at McKinsey. [linkup.so/blog](https://www.linkup.so/blog/linkup-raises-10m-seed-to-build-web-search-for-ai)

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the team**: Actively hiring across engineering (DevOps, Backend, Full Stack, Data, Research), GTM (DevRel, Sales, Marketing, Forward Deployed Engineers), and leadership roles. [careers.linkup.so](https://www.linkup.so/careers)
- **Expanding the index**: Going beyond web pages to leverage structured data from databases, APIs, and real-time feeds — building the "essential rails for the emerging web of AI agents." [linkup.so/blog](https://www.linkup.so/blog/linkup-raises-10m-seed-to-build-web-search-for-ai)
- **Enterprise and government adoption**: Focused on compliance, security, and accuracy to win contracts in regulated verticals like finance, healthcare, and government. [linkup.so](https://www.linkup.so/)

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: "Build the search layer for AI" — a foundational infrastructure problem that hasn't been solved before. The company compares itself to being at Google in 1998. [linkup.so/blog](https://www.linkup.so/blog/linkup-raises-10m-seed-to-build-web-search-for-ai)
- **Culture**: Values of **Speed, Ownership, Teamwork, and Humility**. Described as ambitious, driven, and low-ego. [careers.linkup.so](https://www.linkup.so/careers)
- **Work model**: Hybrid/office — roles available in **New York (NYC), San Francisco (CA), and Paris (FR)**. [careers.linkup.so](https://www.linkup.so/careers)
- **Team composition**: Small, high-leverage team with backgrounds from Spotify, Lyft, McKinsey, Mistral, Datadog, Deel, Dataiku. Opportunity to have outsized impact as an early employee. [linkup.so/blog](https://www.linkup.so/blog/linkup-raises-10m-seed-to-build-web-search-for-ai)
- **Notable perks**: Working on a frontier AI infrastructure problem; close collaboration with founding team; direct impact on product direction; access to cutting-edge AI research and enterprise deployments.

## Sources
1. [linkup.so](https://www.linkup.so/)
2. [linkup.so/careers](https://www.linkup.so/careers)
3. [linkup.so/about](https://www.linkup.so/about)
4. [linkup.so/blog](https://www.linkup.so/blog/linkup-raises-10m-seed-to-build-web-search-for-ai)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/linkup](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/linkup)

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