Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer

About Us

Almost every single thing that you eat wear or use (yes even the screen youre reading this on) is imported. Freight quite literally moves the world. And were helping it move even better.

Freightos (Nasdaq: CRGO) is the global booking and payment platform for the trillion-dollar freight industry. Hundreds of airlines and ocean liners thousands of freight companies and over ten thousand importers and exporters use our platform to move goods around the world faster and more efficiently. This matters. Efficient freight ultimately makes things cost a little bit less when you buy them in the store.

As the leading global freight booking platform for a massive industry weve been crushing it with double-digit growth year after year supporting well over one million shipments every year.

About the Role

Youre a data infrastructure expert with a passion for building scalable reliable and future-ready platforms. As our Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer you will take responsibility for designing and evolving our global data infrastructureensuring its fast cost-effective secure and aligned with business goals. Youll work across AWS and GCP environments optimizing performance and driving architectural decisions that power Freightos internal analytics and customer-facing products.

This is a highly strategic role that blends deep technical expertise with cross-functional collaboration. Youll partner with engineering SRE security and legal teams to define best practices in data governance quality and access. Youll also serve as a thought expertpromoting consistency sharing knowledge and helping us scale smarter.

If youre excited about building bold cloud-native data systems that help move the world of freight onlinethis is your opportunity.

Responsibilities

Support and execute the company-wide database and data infrastructure strategy under the direction of the Senior Manager Data to ensure scalability reliability compliance and cost efficiency as the business grows.

• Serve as the principal database and data infrastructure advisor to Data leadership providing expert guidance on company-wide architecture decisions across AWS & GCP (Postgres MySQL Aurora DSQL ClickHouse SingleStore BigQuery).
• Design implement and improve database and data platform architectures ensuring the right technology is used for each workload and growth stage.
• Ensure reliability and performance of all data products including operational databases analytics platforms and data warehouses in partnership with SRE and engineering teams.
• Implement and operationalize data quality governance and compliance foundations ensuring trusted and consistent data including access controls sensitive data handling and regulatory readiness (GDPR).
• Lead data knowledge and consistency execution maintaining shared definitions across product platform and data (data dictionary metrics definitions schemas) to accelerate development improve knowledge transfer and ensure consistency between product behavior and data outputs.

Requirements:

Basic Requirements

• 6 years of experience in database administration data engineering or data infrastructure roles supporting production systems at scale.
• Advanced SQL proficiency with a strong understanding of performance tuning data modeling and complex analytical workloads.
• Demonstrated experience across multiple database technologies including relational analytical (BigQuery) and specialized databases in cloud environments (AWS GCP Clickhouse).
• Experience evaluating and recommending database architectures based on scalability cost and workload characteristics.
• Strong background in data governance and quality practices including data cataloging metadata management access control models and regulatory compliance frameworks.
• Experience defining and implementing data quality standards for accuracy consistency and reliability of business-critical data.
• Experience optimizing database and data warehouse costs in cloud environments.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally with engineering and SRE.
• High-level business English (written and verbal).

Preferred Qualifications

• BA/BS in Computer Science Data Engineering or a related quantitative field.
• Experience working with remote teams

Why Freightos is the Perfect Runway for Your Career!

• We genuinely value work-life balance! We work hybrid allowing you to enjoy quiet days at home free from traffic with in-office days to meet your fabulous team face-to-face just 5 days a month.
• We believe that employees who get better make us all better. We strive for professional development and continuous learning. Alongside career support and guidance youll receive an annual training budget for personal and professional development.
• We dont just offer jobswe offer a stake in something bigger. As part of Freightos youll be eligible to receive equity incentive grants that vest over time aligning your success with the companys long-term growth. The more we build together the more you benefit.
• A multicultural global team makes global freight easier. Youll work with people from around the world gain new perspectives and experience diverse ways of thinkingfun and eye-opening!
• Some cool perks such as Private Health Insurance Ticket Restaurant and Flexible Remuneration options for nursery transport and restaurant vouchers.
• Flexible schedule & intensive working hours on Fridays so that you can enjoy a longer weekend :)
• Our office in Torre Glories is located in the center of the tech HUB in Barcelona and has stunning city views. We organize events and gatherings throughout the year to keep the team connected and energized.
• WebCargo by Freightos is an equal opportunity employer committed to treating all potential employees fairly and ensuring equal opportunities for everyone.