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Data Platform Engineer

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### Strongest soft/casual matches **Perplexity AI (data platform team)** – @ashishjayamohan (Aug 5, 2026) “Hello! We’re hiring engineers for our data platform team. If you’d like to **come solve some hard problems and just be generally confused with me**, send me a DM.” Very casual, self-deprecating, and inviting tone. Classic soft startup hiring. High engagement (~450 likes).[[1]](https://x.com/ashishjayamohan/status/2084886601524801622) **RespanAI (early-stage LLM observability startup)** – @HendrixLiu29208 (Aug 3, 2026) “we’re hiring across the board (both in-person and remote), and except for a few roles, we don’t care much about yoe. if you’re **high-agency** and willing to put in the reps required to take a fast-paced early-stage startup from 1 to 10… show me something you built.” Very soft on credentials, heavy emphasis on agency and proof of building. Strong startup vibe (1.3k+ likes). Data engineering roles would likely fall under this.[[2]](https://x.com/HendrixLiu29208/status/2084410752136368445) **Kid Pak / consumer AI startup** – @kidpakerot (Aug 25, 2026 – very recent) “we’re hiring a **founding engineer**! … if you vibe with our 67 brainrot culture… You act without a playbook, and enjoy building them from scratch… the person joining now should enjoy the chaos of a 0-1 startup.” Extremely casual/“brainrot” tone. Not data-specific but pure soft founding-engineer language.[[3]](https://x.com/kidpakerot/status/2092107200420249979) ### “Founding Data Engineer” / First Data Engineer posts This phrasing itself is classic soft startup language (implies high ownership, early impact, not a big corporate role).