Senior Data Engineer — Real-Time Market Data (Remote)

Keyrock; Ireland; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Remote-first culture

Yearly team get-togethers

Job summary

Keyrock in Ireland is seeking an experienced Data Platform Engineer to help build the company’s data platform for real-time and batch data across trading and analytics. You’ll join the Central Data Team (CDT) and shape the standards, best practices, and architecture while collaborating with trading desks, risk, and product teams.

The role emphasizes ownership, end-to-end delivery, and pragmatic problem solving, with a remote-first culture and opportunities to influence data governance, lakehouse

Qualifications

• 8+ years of building production data systems that other people rely on.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL: understand what the engine does with queries.
• Readable, maintainable code that can be tested and deleted later.
• Strong understanding of data modelling for streaming and analytical workloads.
• Efficiency, quality, idempotency, and observability are taken seriously by default.

Responsibilities

• Build streaming and batch pipelines ingesting, normalising, and distributing market, trading, and portfolio data.
• Create self-serve tooling (SDKs, patterns, templates, AI agents) for data products.
• Own data contracts and schema evolution to minimise cross-team coordination.
• Design lakehouse and time-series layer around consumer query patterns.
• Build data governance and data quality framework: validation, lineage, ownership, self-healing.
• Develop derived analytics for desks and wealth/asset management.
• Prioritise observability, cost, and performance from day one.
• Work with Infrastructure as code (Docker, Terraform, CI/CD).

Skills

Python

SQL

Data modelling

Streaming systems

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

Kafka/Redpanda/Kinesis

ClickHouse/TimescaleDB/QuestDB

Lakehouse (Apache Iceberg/Delta)

Job description

Keyrock in Ireland is seeking an experienced Data Platform Engineer to help build the company’s data platform for real-time and batch data across trading and analytics. You’ll join the Central Data Team (CDT) and shape the standards, best practices, and architecture while collaborating with trading desks, risk, and product teams.

The role emphasizes ownership, end-to-end delivery, and pragmatic problem solving, with a remote-first culture and opportunities to influence data governance, lakehouse