Staff Data Engineer

About the Platform group

The Platform Group accelerates Hibob’s productivity by providing developers with tools, frameworks, and infrastructure services. We design, build, and maintain critical production systems, ensuring our platform can scale reliably. We also introduce new engineering capabilities to enhance our development process. As part of this group, you’ll help shape the technical foundation that supports our entire engineering team.

Job requirements:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in backend or data engineering roles, with 3+ years in senior/staff-level positions
• Proven ability to design, implement, and maintain large-scale distributed systems
• Strong coding skills in a modern backend language (e.g. Python, Kotlin, Java, Scala), with clean, testable design patterns and production-ready code
• Expertise in relational and non-relational databases, especially PostgreSQL and columnar or analytical storage systems (e.g. SingleStore, ClickHouse, Redshift, BigQuery)
• Solid experience with streaming platforms like Apache Kafka
• Familiarity with data orchestration and pipeline frameworks (e.g. Airflow, Dagster)
• Comfortable working in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Proficiency in infrastructure and deployment workflows (CI/CD, observability, monitoring)
• Ability to work across teams and influence architectural decisions at the org level

Bonus Skills

• Experience building data governance or security/compliance-aware data platforms
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code tools
• Experience with data quality frameworks, lineage, or metadata tooling
• Write high-quality production code to build and evolve our core data systems, pipelines, and services

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement infrastructure that supports reliable, scalable, and secure data ingestion, processing, and storage
• Guide technical direction and best practices across teams and services
• Collaborate with engineers, product, data, and infra teams to align on architecture and execution
• Lead efforts to improve system observability, resilience, and operational efficiency
• Mentor engineers and contribute to growing a culture of excellence

Join our village

HiBob is a village filled with amazing people and we’re especially proud of that. It’s a place where Bobbers can be themselves. We’re about fun, dreams, hopes and ambition, just as much as we are about precision, growth, and top performance. Becoming a Bobber means you’ll receive competitive compensation, benefits, and pre-IPO equity alongside all of this:

• Company share options plan
• We have a flexible hybrid working model
• Work from home allowance - to get your home office set up!
• Payment for sick leave from the first day
• 2 Social Impact days per year for volunteering
• Annual Headspace subscription and wellness benefits
• Awesome employee referral program - $2,500 for each successful referral with an additional ambassador programme
• 10bis or Cibus/Wolt - you get to pick!
• Transportation allowance
• Dog-friendly
• Temporary remote work from anywhere in the world for up to 2 months (after 6 months of employment)
• Fun company and team social events (locally and virtually with our global teams)
• Bob Balance Days - 4 additional days within a calendar year - Enjoy a company-wide long weekend at the beginning of each quarter