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Senior Data Engineer (San Francisco)

Airwallex· Engineering
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Hybrid (US - San Francisco)$160k - $260k + equity + bonusFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior Data Engineer focused on building robust data models and scalable ETL pipelines to support BI, ML, and operational decision-making. Role involves designing data schemas, developing batch and streaming pipelines, ensuring data quality and governance, and collaborating with product and data platform teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement robust, scalable data models that support business intelligence, machine learning, and operational needs.
  • Select appropriate schema designs—including star schema, snowflake, normalized, and denormalized models—based on the use case.
  • Partner with business teams to translate data needs into clean, structured, and well-documented models, while promoting a single source of truth across data layers and pipelines.
  • Build and maintain batch and streaming ETL pipelines across the full data workflow, from ingestion and transformation through delivery.
  • Maintain data consistency, traceability, and quality across multiple data sources and domains, including distributed or multi-datacenter environments where relevant.
  • Contribute to data governance strategies, policies, and standards across areas such as data quality, stewardship, metadata, master data, privacy, security, and lifecycle management.
  • Work with Data Platform Engineers and Product Managers to identify root causes of data issues and deliver efficient, scalable solutions.
  • Explore practical ways for data engineering and AI to work together across our products and operations.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, Maths or a related field.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience designing and implementing ETL pipelines using tools such as Informatica, Talend, Apache NiFi, or similar data integration platforms.
  • Proficiency in SQL, database management systems (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle), and data warehousing solutions.
  • Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), specifically BigQuery and Airflow.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills with keen attention to detail and commitment to high-quality work.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
  • Outstanding verbal communication skills, ability to collaborate with globally distributed teams.

Skills

Required:ETL design and developmentData modelingSQLGCP BigQueryCommunication
Nice to have:Python or RData governance

Benefits

  • Benefits vary by country and employment type in accordance with local statutory requirements.
  • All employees receive at least the statutory minimum for paid annual leave and public holidays, with many of our locations offering additional company-provided vacation days.
  • US-based employees are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability, basic life insurance, and well-being benefits.
  • US-based employees also receive 20 paid days of vacation and 12 paid days of company holidays in a calendar year.
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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