Senior Data Engineer

Founded in 2011, the business writes the billing, metering and customer portal software that small water and electric utilities run on. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

Looking for a Senior Data Engineer who wants to stay somewhere for a while. This hire will help replace a set of fragile nightly scripts with tested, monitored pipelines. This is a fully remote position open to candidates anywhere in Japan.

Duties:

• Manage warehouse objects, roles and spend in Snowflake, BigQuery or Redshift
• Tune slow queries and expensive jobs
• Ingest data from APIs, SaaS tools and databases with Fivetran, Airbyte or custom Python
• Respond to pipeline failures and backfill data when needed
• Stream events through Kafka or Kinesis into the lake and warehouse
• Work with analysts to define metrics and fix discrepancies between reports
• Build batch and streaming pipelines with Airflow, Dagster or Prefect

Required qualifications:

• 7+ years of data engineering, or backend work with data at volume
• Understanding of dimensional modelling and slowly changing dimensions
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD and testing practices for data code
• Experience with a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift or Synapse)
• Patience with messy source data and the habit of documenting assumptions

What you get:

Salary: ¥9,300,000 to ¥11,500,000 annually

• Paid leave
• Flexible hours
• Bonus twice a year
• Remote work allowed

Due to the number of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Kanto Software Co., Ltd..