Remote Senior Data Platform Engineer

Keyrock; Roma; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Keyrock is building the Central Data Team's Data Platform to empower traders, wealth and asset management desks with real-time data and clear context.

As an early CDT member, you’ll shape data contracts, lakehouse design, and governance, delivering observable, cost-aware data products that scale across the business. You will collaborate with Architecture, Infrastructure, Platform, and research teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of building production data systems that other people rely on.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL: not just being able to write a query, but being able to reason about what the engine is doing with it.
• Code that's easy for someone else to read, test, and delete later.
• Strong understanding of data modelling for both streaming and analytical workloads.
• Efficiency, quality, idempotency, and observability are taken seriously by default.

Responsibilities

• Build streaming and batch pipelines ingesting market and portfolio data, resilient to feed and exchange failures.
• Create self-serve tooling (SDKs, patterns, templates, AI agents) for other teams publish, consume, and build on data products.
• Own data contracts and schema evolution; prevent multi-team coordination bottlenecks.
• Design the lakehouse and time-series layer around consumer query patterns.
• Build and evolve the Data Governance and Data Quality Framework: stale-feed detection, schema validation, range checks, idempotent writes, lineage, ownership, self-healing.
• Build the derived analytics the business runs on: cross-exchange spreads, VWAP at depth, order book microstructure for desks; portfolio views, exposure, performance for wealth and asset management.
• Make observability, cost, and performance first-class from day one.
• Treat infrastructure as code (Docker, Terraform, CI/CD) alongside our Central Infrastructure Team.
• Work in the open: write things down, partner closely with Architecture, Infrastructure, Platform, and the rest of the teams.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data modelling

Data pipelines

Code readability

Observability

Tools

Kafka

Redpanda

MSK

Kinesis

ClickHouse

TimescaleDB

QuestDB

Job description

Keyrock is building the Central Data Team's Data Platform to empower traders, wealth and asset management desks with real-time data and clear context.

As an early CDT member, you’ll shape data contracts, lakehouse design, and governance, delivering observable, cost-aware data products that scale across the business. You will collaborate with Architecture, Infrastructure, Platform, and research teams.