Senior Data Engineer (Data Governance Lead)

Xsolla; Remote; CAD 166,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

A global commerce company in Canada is seeking a Data Engineer to lead efforts in building and optimizing the User Platform and Recommendation Engine. The role involves ensuring data accuracy and performance across various systems including Snowflake, Postgres, and Kafka. Ideal candidates should have 3-8 years of data engineering experience, strong SQL and Python skills, and a solid understanding of data governance practices. The position offers a salary range of $120,000 - $170,000 annually.

Qualifications

• 3-8 years of experience in Data Engineering with data governance responsibilities.
• Proven experience building ETL/ELT at scale.
• Understanding of Snowflake performance tuning, query optimization, and warehouse orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Lead data engineering efforts for User Platform and Recommendation Engine.
• Collaborate with ML engineers, backend teams, and business stakeholders.
• Lead data governance best practices and communication across the organization.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data governance

ETL/ELT

Data modeling

API-based data integration

Microservice architectures

Cross-functional communication

Tools

Snowflake

Postgres

Kafka

Job description

Xsolla is a global commerce company with robust tools and services to help developers solve the inherent challenges of the video game industry. From indie to AAA, companies partner with Xsolla to help them fund, distribute, market, and monetize their games. Grounded in the belief in the future of video games, Xsolla is resolute in the mission to bring opportunities together, and continually make new resources available to creators. Headquartered and incorporated in Los Angeles, California, Xsolla operates as the merchant of record and has helped over 1,500+ game developers to reach more players and grow their businesses around the world. With more paths to profits and ways to win, developers have all the things needed to enjoy the game.

Job Description

• This role will assign the data engineering efforts for theUer Platform (CDP)andRecommendation Engine, ensuring data accuracy, performance, data alignment and security across pipelines connectingSnowflake, Postgres, Kafka, and API Gatewayservices.
• You’ll collaborate with ML engineers, backend teams, and business stakeholders to build reliable, high-performance data systems that support insights, automation, and machine learning use cases
• This role will lead the data governance best practices and communication cross the organization.

Requirement

• 3-8 years of experience in Data Engineering, withdata governance responsibilities .
• SQL and Python skills, with proven experience buildingETL/ELTat scale.
• Understanding ofSnowflake performance tuning,query optimization, andwarehouse orchestration.
• Understanding ofdata modeling(Kimball, Data Vault, or hybrid).
• Familiarity withAPI-based data integrationandmicroservice architectures.
• Excellent cross-functional communication — can translate between engineering and business.
• Hands-on problem solver who balances velocity with reliability.

$120,000 - $170,000 a year