Staff Data Platform Engineer

Remotedxb; Dubai; On-site; AED 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and stock option

Company paid healthcare

Flexible work arrangements

Team lunches and retreats

Job summary

OXIO is building a unified data platform that ingests data from multiple sources, enabling real-time activation and secure data sharing with customers. The role leads architecture, pipelines, and governance to scale data solutions across the organization.

You will work with Scala, Python, SQL, Spark, and cloud-native tools in a Linux-first environment, contributing to hiring and team growth while advancing data governance and privacy standards.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering with a focus on data systems.
• 10+ years building data solutions using data lakehouse architectures.
• 10+ years programming with Scala, Go, Python, and SQL.
• 5+ years building scalable data solutions with Python, Spark, Terraform.
• Deep expertise in cloud-native data stacks (AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Synapse).
• Strong understanding of microservices, event-driven systems (Kafka), and Kubernetes.
• Experience with orchestration tools like Airflow or Prefect and DBT.
• Proficient in building and scaling APIs (REST/gRPC).
• Experience applying AI/ML and LLMs to data products.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and scale a unified data platform.
• Design and implement streaming and batch data pipelines with Spark, Airflow, DBT.
• Lead infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Evaluate and migrate to a North Star data architecture.
• Collaborate to define logging, data contracts, and consumption patterns.
• Drive data governance, privacy compliance, and metadata management.
• Build APIs and data services for real-time activation and data sharing.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to hiring and growth.

Skills

Data engineering

Scala

Go

Python

SQL

Streaming

APIs

AI/ML in data products

Tools

Spark

Airflow

DBT

Terraform

Kubernetes

Kafka

Prefect

AWS

Databricks

Snowflake

BigQuery

Synapse

Job description

About the Company

OXIO is the world’s first telecom-as-a-service (TaaS) platform. We are democratizing telecom and making it easily accessible for brands and enterprises to fully own and operate proprietary mobile networks designed to support their own customers needs.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and scale a unified data platform integrating internal and external sources into data lakes and warehouses
• Design and implement streaming and batch data pipelines using tools like Spark, Airflow, and DBT
• Lead infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Kubernetes
• Evaluate and drive the migration to a North Star data architecture
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define logging standards, data contracts, and consumption patterns
• Drive best practices in data governance, privacy compliance (GDPR, CCPA), and metadata management
• Build APIs and data services to support real-time activation and client-facing data sharing
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to hiring and team growth

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on data systems
• 10+ years of experience building data solutions using data lakehouse architectures
• 10+ years of hands-on programming experience with Scala, Go, Python, and SQL
• 5+ years of experience building scalable data solutions using Python, Spark, and Terraform
• Deep expertise in cloud-native data stacks (AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, or Synapse)
• Strong understanding of microservices, event-driven systems (Kafka), and Kubernetes
• Experience with orchestration tools like Airflow or Prefect and transformation tools like DBT
• Proficient in building and scaling APIs (REST/gRPC)
• Experience applying AI/ML and LLMs to data products

Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock option incentive program
• Company paid healthcare
• Flexible work arrangements
• Company sponsored team-lunches and company retreats