Senior Data Engineer

Netherlands Posted Jul 14, 2026 0 views

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Team: IT

Accountabilities:

  • Own and continuously enhance the company’s data platform, including data warehouse architecture, modelling strategies, and transformation frameworks.
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable production data pipelines using modern cloud technologies and engineering best practices.
  • Refactor and improve critical data flows to reduce technical debt, strengthen system integrity, and increase platform reliability.
  • Collaborate closely with backend engineers to ensure data is generated, structured, and exposed correctly at the source.
  • Partner with product and engineering stakeholders to enable data-driven features, telemetry, instrumentation, and customer-focused outcomes.
  • Implement observability, testing, and monitoring processes to ensure robust and dependable data operations.
  • Contribute to backend initiatives where data engineering and product development intersect, acting as an embedded engineering partner rather than a standalone analytics function.
  • Requirements:

    • Minimum of 5 years of experience in data engineering roles, ideally gained within B2B SaaS companies or product-led startup environments.
    • Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with the ability to apply both languages to complex engineering and data challenges.
    • Proven experience building, deploying, and operating production data pipelines on AWS.
    • Hands-on expertise with modern data warehouse technologies such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or Redshift.
    • Experience using DBT or similar data transformation frameworks.
    • Solid understanding of backend engineering principles, with the ability to review and contribute to application code when required.
    • Comfortable taking ownership of projects end-to-end within dynamic, fast-growing teams.
    • Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, combined with a product-oriented mindset.
    • Benefits:

      • Competitive salary package and equity participation opportunities.
      • 25 days of annual leave in addition to public holidays.
      • Pension contribution scheme.
      • Fully equipped home-office and hardware setup from day one.
      • Regular company offsites and social events.
      • Flat organizational structure with transparent communication and direct access to leadership.
      • Inclusive and collaborative working culture that values diversity, innovation, and individual perspectives.

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