Senior Data Engineer

Subsets; København; On-site; DKK 746,753 - 1,038,961; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

Company card for office food/snacks

Great breakfasts and lunches

Relocation support

Office kayaks

Job summary

An innovative early-stage startup in Copenhagen is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to help build AI-driven subscription growth solutions. You will design and manage scalable data pipelines, ensuring optimal ETL processes while working closely with the founding team. Ideal candidates have a strong data engineering background, experience with cloud platforms, and a desire to thrive in the fast-paced startup environment. The position offers a competitive salary range and attractive perks, including relocation support and office amenities.

Qualifications

• Strong background in data engineering with a software engineering lean.
• Hands-on experience building robust data pipelines.
• Experience working with Google Cloud Platform or AWS.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and manage scalable data pipelines and ETL processes.
• Monitor and optimize existing data pipelines.
• Work directly with founding team and software engineers.

Skills

Data engineering

Building robust data pipelines

Analytical mindset

Experience with GCP or AWS

Tools

Python

SQL

dbt

BigQuery

PostgreSQL

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Subsets (YC S23) is an early-stage startup building the future of AI‑driven subscription growth. As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll join the early team building the future of subscription lifecycle management, helping brands create audiences, run experiments, and optimize how messaging impacts churn, retention, upsell and more!

What You Will Do

• work directly with the founding team and our software engineers.
• design, develop, and manage our scalable data pipelines and ETL processes.
• monitor and optimize our current data pipelines (we are moving a lot of data!).
• work in a lean, high‑performing team where you will have a significant impact on the product and assume numerous responsibilities.
• bring your opinions and experiences on how to scale our current setup from 10+ customers to 100+ customers.

Tech stack: Python, SQL, dbt, BigQuery, PostgreSQL, GCP, Docker, Terraform.

You don't need to know everything - we value strong fundamentals and learning velocity.

You may be a good fit if

• you have a strong background in data engineering (with a software engineering lean) and hands‑on experience building robust data pipelines.
• you worked with Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or similar before.
• you have experience in modeling data to be consumed by machine learning pipelines.
• you have an analytical mindset that thrives in fast‑paced, loosely defined environments.
• you have an "anti‑meeting" culture mindset and value focused work time.
• you prefer a primarily in‑office way of working.
• you’re energized by the pace and intensity of early‑stage startups.

Perks

• competitive salary & equity
• company card for all things office food/snacks
• great breakfast and lunch (and dinner when working late in the office)
• relocation support if you don't live in Copenhagen
• office kayaks 🛶

Compensation Range: $115K - $160K