Senior Data Engineer

About the team

The Data Intelligence & Analytics organization builds the core data platform and internal products that power decision-making across the company. We design and operate large-scale data systems own the companys data lake ingestion infrastructure and platform tooling and develop end-to-end applications that transform complex datasets into fast reliable business-critical products used daily by go-to-market product and engineering teams. Our work sits at the intersection of data platforms distributed systems and product development giving engineers the opportunity to own meaningful problems across the stack and build systems that truly run the business.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join our Bengaluru team and help scale the development of our internal data this role you will build data-driven applications that empower teams across the company including go-to-market engineering and product. Because the products we build are initiated and owned by the team you will be involved end-to-end from shaping requirements and designing features to implementation and long-term ownership.

You will work on building scalable reliable systems that solve critical business problems partnering closely with full-stack engineers to develop new features and operate the data pipelines and services behind our applications. Our stack spans multiple languages and technologies including Go Scala and ClickHouse and continues to evolve. Many of our products also incorporate strong AI components giving you opportunities to work with modern AI infrastructure and tools such as vector databases MCP-based services and Workers AI.

What youll do

• Design and implement core components of our data pipelines and services in Go and Scala with a focus on scalability performance and long-term maintainability.
  
  
• Partner closely with engineers analysts and product stakeholders to design solutions for strategic initiatives and business-critical data products.
  
  
• Contribute to the evolution of our data platform architecture improving scalability reliability observability and data correctness across the stack.
  
  
• Build and curate high-quality well-modeled datasets that power internal products analytics and AI-enabled features at company scale.
  
  
• Develop a deep understanding of the companys data ecosystem including source systems tooling and data flows and collaborate closely with the data engineering teams in Austin and San Francisco to improve data ingestion quality and governance.
  
  
• Lead by example through design reviews knowledge sharing and mentorship helping raise the technical bar and data engineering practices across the organization.

Examples of desirable skills knowledge and experience

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science Engineering Statistics Mathematics or a related quantitative field or equivalent practical experience.
  
  
• 7 years of professional experience in data engineering software engineering or related roles building and operating production data systems.
  
  
• Strong programming expertise in Go Python or JVM-based languages with experience writing high-quality production-grade services and pipelines.
  
  
• Deep knowledge of SQL and hands-on experience designing data models and working with relational and/or analytical databases (e.g. PostgreSQL MySQL ClickHouse).
  
  
• Experience building scalable reliable and observable data pipelines with an understanding of performance data quality and operational best practices.
  
  
• Proven problem-solving and communication skills with a track record of driving projects in ambiguous environments and partnering effectively with cross-functional teams.
  
  

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with container based deployments such as Docker & K

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Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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