Senior Data Platform Engineer – Remote-First Real-Time Data

Keyrock; Greater London; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Yearly onsite team event

Job summary

Keyrock is building its Central Data Team (CDT) to power real‑time analytics across trading and DeFi desks. You’ll own streaming and batch data pipelines, contribute to the lakehouse design, and ship self‑serve data tooling.

The role is remote-first with London, Brussels and Singapore hubs supporting collaboration. You’ll work on data contracts, schema evolution, and governance, ensuring observability, cost awareness, and end-to-end ownership.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of building production data systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL; understand engine behavior.
• Code that's easy to read, test, and delete later.
• Strong data modelling for streaming and analytical workloads.
• Emphasis on efficiency, quality, idempotency, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Build streaming and batch pipelines ingesting market and portfolio data.
• Create self-serve tooling (SDKs, patterns, templates, AI agents) for data products.
• Own data contracts and schema evolution to avoid multi-team coordination.</
• Design the lakehouse and time-series layer around consumer query patterns.
• Build and evolve Data Governance and Data Quality Framework with lineage and ownership.
• Develop derived analytics for desks and wealth management.
• Prioritise observability, cost, and performance from day one.
• Treat infrastructure as code (Docker, Terraform, CI/CD) with Central Infra team.
• Work openly, document, and collaborate with Architecture, Infrastructure, Platform.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data modelling

Streaming data

Observability

Tools

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD

Kafka

ClickHouse

Iceberg/Delta Lake

Job description

Keyrock is building its Central Data Team (CDT) to power real‑time analytics across trading and DeFi desks. You’ll own streaming and batch data pipelines, contribute to the lakehouse design, and ship self‑serve data tooling.

The role is remote-first with London, Brussels and Singapore hubs supporting collaboration. You’ll work on data contracts, schema evolution, and governance, ensuring observability, cost awareness, and end-to-end ownership.