Senior Data Engineer

Overview:

This is a new role. The team has doubled in size over the past year. The Data Engineering team moves data from about 30 source systems into Snowflake. You'll own ingestion, modelling and data quality checks. We are headquartered in Madrid and have been hiring remotely since 2020. Employment is through our payroll partner in Sri Lanka. Salary is paid monthly in Sri Lankan rupees. Working hours overlap with Central European Time. You will need a stable internet connection and a backup power source (UPS or inverter).

Job duties:

• Maintain CI for data code and review pull requests.
• Model data in dbt using staging, intermediate and mart layers.
• Work with analysts to define metrics and fix discrepancies between reports.
• Tune slow queries and expensive jobs.

Requirements:

• 5-7 years of data engineering, or backend work with data at volume.
• Expert SQL, including window functions and query tuning.
• Patience with messy source data and the habit of documenting assumptions.
• Working knowledge of AWS, GCP or Azure data services.

Pluses:

• Reverse ETL tools like Hightouch or Census.
• Terraform for data infrastructure.

Pay and benefits:

Rate: LKR 590,000 - LKR 810,000 a month

• Annual learning budget.
• Monthly internet allowance.
• Performance bonus.
• Public holidays observed per your country.
• Flexible hours.

Company overview:

Advertising, subscriptions and transaction fees each bring in a significant share of revenue. Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it. We started in 1996 and have grown to about 109,600 people.

Please submit your CV in English.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Sri Lanka.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Canalcross.