Senior Data Engineer – Scale the Data Platform & Insights

GitGuardian; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

BSPCE

Lunch voucher

Wellness stipend

Family health insurance

Home office upgrade allowance

Holiday allowance

Referral bonus

Team building budget

Job summary

GitGuardian is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own and evolve our data platform in a high-growth environment. You will build scalable ELT pipelines, design robust data models in Snowflake, and collaborate with Sales, Marketing and Product to deliver data-driven insights.

You will mentor teammates, champion data quality, and contribute to architectural decisions that impact product analytics and decision-making. This role requires strong Python/SQL skills and hands-on cloud data experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in data engineering, with a proven track record of building and managing complex data platforms in a cloud environment.
• Expert-level proficiency in Python and SQL; you are comfortable writing clean, efficient, and production-ready code.
• A comprehensive understanding of modern data architectures, including data warehousing, data modeling, and ETL/ELT best practices.
• Hands-on experience with our core technologies or their equivalents (e.g., Airflow instead of Dagster; Redshift or BigQuery instead of Snowflake).
• A strong business sense and the ability to translate complex business requirements into technical solutions that have a tangible impact.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain our data platform, ensuring its scalability, reliability, and performance to meet a high-growth environment.
• Develop and optimize robust ELT pipelines, leveraging tools like Fivetran and Airbyte for standard sources and building connectors for PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and APIs.
• Architect and implement data models in Snowflake, transforming raw data into clean, business-ready tables serving as the single source of truth.
• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Product to understand needs and deliver data solutions that drive strategic decisions.
• Power customer-facing analytics by exposing data within the GitGuardian product to provide valuable insights.
• Champion data quality and governance across the organization, establishing best practices and data integrity.
• Mentor and guide engineers, sharing expertise and contributing to the team’s continuous improvement.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data modeling

ETL/ELT

Cloud data platforms

Data warehousing

Snowflake

Tools

Dagster

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Fivetran

Airbyte

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

Job description

GitGuardian is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own and evolve our data platform in a high-growth environment. You will build scalable ELT pipelines, design robust data models in Snowflake, and collaborate with Sales, Marketing and Product to deliver data-driven insights.

You will mentor teammates, champion data quality, and contribute to architectural decisions that impact product analytics and decision-making. This role requires strong Python/SQL skills and hands-on cloud data experience.