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Senior Data Engineer / Data Platform Lead The Role Every number a customer argues about. Architecture is still open and yours to decide and defend: warehouse shape, table format, orchestration, where the streaming boundary sits against change capture or a tighter batch cadence, and how datasets are tiered with real service levels behind them. This is not an Analytics Engineer role . They decide what a term means; you decide whether the number is computed correctly, arrives on time, and can bear the inference drawn from it. If a metric means two different things in two places, that is theirs. If it means the right thing but is stale or irreproducible, it is yours. What You Would Actually Be Doing Own the Event Pipeline Own the event pipeline behind shipment milestones: late arrivals, corrections that restate a milestone recorded three days ago, and the gap between event time and ingest time. Define how a restatement propagates to something a customer has already seen. Build for Agent-Grade Serving Make the serving path good enough for an agent to depend on — with a stated freshness target per dataset and a read path whose p99 you know . Because when a run stalls waiting for a number, a workflow with money attached stalls too. Make Data Quality Fail, Not Warn Build data quality as failing checks , not dashboards: Null rates Referential integrity breaks Duplicate milestones Distribution shifts when a partner changes a field A check that only warns is a check nobody reads. Enforce Tenant Isolation Enforce tenant isolation at the data layer and assert it through tests. Contract rates are commercially sensitive between competitors who may share the same forwarders. Own Expensive Backfills Plan backfills that cost real money. A reprocess across 30+ countries of historical data has a bill and a blast radius. You own both. Apply Statistical Judgement Bring statistical rigour to decisions. Know what you can and cannot claim from observational data — and say so before the decision, not after it . What We Look For Must-Haves Years are a floor, not the bar. If you miss one line but are strong on the rest, apply and tell us which one. 5+ years building and operating production data platforms, including at least 2 years as the person accountable for architecture others depended on. Designed a warehouse from first principles — grain, dimensional models, slowly changing dimensions, additive vs. non-additive measures — and can describe a modelling trap you found in someone else's work and fixed. Deep SQL and Python : window functions, incremental and idempotent transformations, safe-to-rerun backfills, and pipelines that survive late-arriving data. Hands-on ownership of a production orchestrator — Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, Temporal, or equivalent — including retries, service levels, dependency modelling, and backfill strategy. A defensible position on table formats and streaming vs. change capture vs. tighter batch cadence , with the reasoning rather than the fashion. Genuine statistical rigour: can design an experiment, defend the power calculation, and pick the right test for skewed or correlated data. Has led engineers — hiring, reviews, mentoring — and carried a pager for datasets other teams depended on. Also Good — None Required You have run a data on-call rotation and can describe what you changed to make it quieter. You have worked in a domain where being wrong about a time or quantity had a cost someone could name . By Month Six What Good Looks Like We would rather tell you now what we would be measuring, so you can decide whether this is the job you want. 01 — Dataset Reliability Every dataset a workflow depends on has a stated freshness target and a failing check behind it. 02 — Tenant Isolation Tenant isolation in the data layer is asserted by a test that runs on every change . 03 — Team & On-Call Impact You have hired or levelled up at least one engineer, and the data on-call is quieter than when you arrived.
Here's how to pick the right one and stand out in your application.
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That number is real. WorkMundi's database shows 144,883 open engineer roles across the world. India has the most with 31,687 jobs, followed by the United States with 30,084. If you just finished reading one job ad and felt paralyzed by choice, you're not alone—but this scale is actually an advantage. It means you can afford to be selective.
Start by geography and language. The majority of engineer ads—117,837 of them—have the job posting text written in English. Use that as one filter, but remember: the ad text language tells you nothing about whether the role actually requires you to speak English day-to-day. Read the job description carefully. Then check which countries have the volume you're targeting. Singapore, Poland, and Australia round out the top five after India and the US.
Next, learn who's hiring. Accenture has posted 2,801 engineer roles. andurilindustries, speechify, and jobgether are also actively recruiting. If you're applying to one of these names, research their hiring patterns and interview style before you apply. That homework pays off.
When you interview, expect the question every engineer hears: 'Tell me about a time you had to debug a problem that wasn't in your job description.' Have a specific story ready—not a general one. Name the tools, the deadline pressure, and what you learned. Hiring managers listen for whether you see problem-solving as part of the role itself, not a favour.
