Staff Data Engineer

Job Description

About Us
HiBob helps modern, mid-size businesses transform the way they manage people, giving HR and managers all they need to connect, engage, develop, and retain top talent. Since 2015, we’ve achieved consecutive triple-digit year-over-year growth, all backed by our amazing team of Bobbers from across the globe, making us the choice HRIS of over ~4500 midsize and multinational companies.
Our HR platform is intuitive, data-driven, and built for the way people work today: globally, remotely, and collaboratively. Fast-growing companies across the globe such as Monzo, Happy Socks, Fiverr, and VaynerMedia rely upon Bob to help them create the best work experiences for their people.
Come and be you with us 
Being a Bobber is all about being you. We want you to bring all parts of yourself to work, giving you the freedom and confidence to be the best you and do your best work. If that’s bubbly, shy, precise, funny, bold, kind, honest, brilliant, or anything in between, we’re waiting with open arms. Come join us.

We are looking for a Staff Data Engineer to join our Platform group as part of the Data Infrastructure team. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who combines deep technical expertise with a passion for building scalable, high-impact data infrastructure.

In this role, you will take ownership of designing, implementing, and evolving the data systems that power Hibob’s data orchestration, distributed storage, and streaming capabilities - with a focus on architecture, reliability, and performance. You’ll collaborate across teams, influence engineering best practices, and help scale our infrastructure to support growing data needs across the organization.

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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
  
  

If this sounds like something you’ve been looking for, we’d love to have you. Come on, join our village!