[Hiring] Senior Data Engineer @Loka, Inc

Role Description

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our growing team at Loka. In this role, you will:

• Build scalable production-grade data pipelines and real-time data streams.
• Write and design scalable, cloud-ready applications.
• Lead technical projects through architecture, design, and implementation phases.
• Collaborate with Machine Learning, Data Science, Design, Software Engineering, and Business teams to triage data or ETL issues.
• Build tests and health checks to maintain code and data quality.
• Monitor and analyze data flowing through various systems by adding appropriate visualizations and dashboards.
• Provide updates and offer guidance to clients.

Qualifications

• Advanced Python and SQL.
• Experience in ETL design, implementation, and maintenance.
• Experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure delivering data-centric product experiences.
• 5+ years experience in a related role.
• Experience with in-memory and disk-based databases, relational and non-relational databases, full-text search engines, database design, development, and maintenance (e.g., MySQL, MongoDB, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, with bonus for Graph Databases like Neo4j).
• Experience with data warehousing and multidimensional data models (columnar data modeling).
• Working knowledge in Data Lake, Data warehouse, and massive parallel processing.
• Strong problem-solving ability and ability to work through ambiguity and incomplete specifications.

Requirements

• Excellent English - Being a global team, we work entirely in English for meetings, customer calls, and business communications.
• CV written in English.

Preferred but Not Required

• Working knowledge in IAM, Federated Authentication, SSO, SAML, Encryption, Security, APIs, Disaster Recovery, or Backup.
• Strong ability in distributed systems for large-scale data processing.
• Experience with Spark and Pandas.
• Experience with Open Tables (Hudi, Delta Lake, DataBricks, Iceberg as related to Data Lakehouse).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD Pipelines.
• Experience with QuickSight and DataViz.

Personality Profile

• Curious: You strive to learn and grow into different industries with a modern tech stack.
• Autonomous: You thrive in a fully remote, globally distributed team.
• Collaborative: You enjoy working across departments.
• Adaptable: You operate with a startup mindset and move at startup speed.

Benefits

• Every other Friday off (26 extra days off a year).
• Remote-first culture.
• Explore and Relocation programs (three months work abroad or full international relocation).
• Paid sick days and local holidays.
• Business English classes program.
• Continuous Learning Support.
• Fitness and/or Mental Health Subscriptions.
• Access to LokaLabs™, our internal research and development program.
• Defined career path.