Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer

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About Gigs

At Gigs, we're building the operating system for mobile services—a platform that lets tech companies embed global connectivity into their products effortlessly. Just as Stripe lets any business add a payment button in seconds, Gigs empowers platforms to weave in connectivity—bridging the traditional world of telecom with modern tech. From fintechs launching mobile services to HR platforms offering work phone plans, we automate provisioning and remove telecom complexity. Our team of around 100 people across the US and Europe, backed by nearly $100 million in funding from Ribbit Capital, Google, and Y Combinator. As one of the fastest-growing tech companies, bringing together early-stage engineers, product builders, and business athletes from companies like Stripe, Airbnb, and Shopify. We’re tackling deep technical and regulatory challenges to make connectivity truly seamless. If you’re driven by curiosity, creativity, and the chance to shape the future of telecom, we’d love to hear from you.

The Role

As a Senior Data Engineer , you'll own the technical roadmap for scaling our data platform. You will be instrumental in evolving our stack from its solid foundation to a production-grade system that powers both internal analytics and customer-facing data products. You'll join a team of 3 across data engineering and analytics and will be working at the intersection of engineering, product, and business. Our data platform is built on modern tooling, BigQuery, dbt, Dagster, Fivetran, and Lightdash. We've proven out the fundamentals: 600+ dbt models, customer data exports, and an emerging Insights API with Lightdash and Dagster self-hosted. We need to productionize data sharing, improve loading and pre-processing and enable us to scale with growing data volumes. This is a role for someone who has built data platforms before, knows what "production-ready" means and wants to build on top of a solid foundation and focus on reliability, observability and scale.

What You Will Do

• Shape the data platform roadmap: Work closely with stakeholders across Data, Engineering, Finance, Product, Ops, Security and Growth to understand their data needs and translate them into platform capabilities. You'll help define what "great" looks like for data at Gigs.
• Productionise data sharing: Design and implement a generalised, self-service data sharing framework that can onboard new customers without custom code.
• Extend the orchestration layer: Improve reliability (retries, alerting), add observability, and ensure our pipelines scale gracefully as data volumes grow.
• Own data infrastructure as code: Extend and maintain GCP resources (BigQuery, GCS, Cloud Run, GKE) while keeping accessibility, security and cost efficiency front of mind.
• Build customer-facing data products: Scale our Insights API and design the infrastructure to expose metrics, reports, and dashboards directly within Gigs customer products.
• Maintain and improve data pipelines: Move heavy event processing out of our dbt jobs, ingest new events in collaboration with engineering teams and figure out how to source data points we currently don’t have access to.
• Architect for future ML workloads: Ensure our data architecture becomes "AI-ready," paving the way for future churn prediction and plan optimization.

What We Are Looking For

• 7+ years in data engineering with a track record of architectural leadership. You’ve designed data platforms and evolved systems from startup to enterprise-level reliably.
• Expert Python & Software Engineering standards. Comfortable with custom Python extractors, CI/CD for data, unit testing, etc.
• Strong opinion on Data Modeling (dbt/SQL). Organize dbt projects well as teams grow.
• Cloud-Native & IaC Fluency. Experience with GCP or equivalent, Terraform, DevOps best practices.
• Product-Minded Engineering. Define SLAs, treat internal analytics & external APIs as live products requiring monitoring.
• Force Multiplier. Elevate the team through code reviews, tooling, and clear communication.

Before You Apply

The truth is, what we’re building isn’t easy. We expect a lot, and operate with urgency and ownership. This won’t be the right place for everybody, and that’s okay.

This role probably isn’t a fit if:

• You need a lot of structure, or layers of process to do your best work.
• You prefer to specialize narrowly and wait for direction rather than taking initiative.
• You’re uncomfortable making decisions with imperfect information or wearing multiple hats.
• You’re looking for a “big company” setup — we’re still building many things for the first time.

But if you’re excited by the idea of building from zero, working with passion, and leaving your mark on something that matters — we’d love to meet you.

Work at Gigs

• We’re remote-friendly by design, but we also offer hubs for those who need the energy and focus that only in-person collaboration can bring.
• Gigs Pads: Our hubs in San Francisco, London, Amsterdam, and Berlin are vibrant spots where Gigsters connect, collaborate, and create together.
• Gigs Republic: Twice a year, our entire company comes together to strengthen bonds, align on big ideas, and share experiences that fuel our culture and ignite growth.

What We Offer

At Gigs, we believe in rewarding excellence. We offer competitive compensation and stock options because we see you as a true partner in our growth. We also provide stipends for your home office or work setup, a budget for learning and development to fuel your career, and of course, a free phone and international data plan.

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