Lead Data Engineer

What you’ll own

• Build a greenfield real-time event-streaming platform on Kafka, Flink, and ClickHouse, serving segmentation and targeting at scale
• Set the technical direction for the platform as our products scale
• Own warehouse datasets and transformations end to end in BigQuery, dbt, SQL, and Python
• Set data quality, testing, and observability standards across streaming and batch, tuning for cost and latency as volumes scale
• Raise the bar through code review, mentoring, and patterns the team builds on
• Build AI into how you work and into the platform itself, from coding agents to automated quality checks

You’re a match if you have

• Strong, hands-on data engineering fundamentals: pipelines, modelling, and clear reasoning about correctness, scale, and failure modes
• Strong SQL and Python, used daily in production
• Experience designing, building, and scaling production data pipelines end to end (some streaming exposure is a plus)
• Depth in the modern batch stack: dbt, an orchestrator, a cloud warehouse
• Data modelling skills, schemas that serve analytics and product use cases and hold up at scale
• Real experience with event data at billions-of-rows scale
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP) and infra-as-code
• A data quality and observability mindset, testing, monitoring, and alerting as habit
• A track record of setting technical direction through architecture decisions and mentoring senior engineers
• Clear communication, you can explain data trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
• Strong ownership and pragmatic judgment
• Comfort with ambiguity, priorities shift as the product evolves and you adapt without a perfect spec

Additional Benefits

• We commit to paying globally competitive base salaries and contributions to a long-term fund
• Sharing our products' success through Employee Stock Options ESOP
• Our flexible working model blends the best of both worlds: Sydney-based employees enjoy hybrid 3 days a week in our vibrant head office, while remote team members can work from home or utilise access to global office hubs via a WeWork All-Access pass
• Lunch is ordered fresh every day in our friendly office in Sydney CBD
• Quarterly End of Cycle Celebration Awards and Dinner
• USD $500 WFH allowance to set up your home office
• USD $600 per annum to put toward your internet and phone usage
• USD $75 per quarter for remote employees to celebrate with local team members
• We also support our US Employees with Medical and 401K Insurance
• Our Australian Employees can avail of Novated Leasing, save money by paying for your car using pre & post-tax dollars
• Up to USD $1,350 per annum for any classes, courses or events to support your growth and development
• Access to free online courses via Udemy
• USD $800 per year to put toward your health and wellbeing
• 24/7 access to unlimited counselling for you and your family through our EAP Service
• Monthly subsidy and discounted rate with ClassPass, including a 1-year free membership to Breethe
• New parents receive 12 weeks of paid leave in our gender-neutral offer, with additional leave for birthing parents
• 2 additional paid annual leave days at the end of the year
• Birthday paid day off