Staff Data Engineer

LocalStack; Remote; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing tech startup is seeking a professional to help build a coherent and reliable data platform. This role includes driving the adoption of scalable data architecture and influencing the technical roadmap. The ideal candidate will have experience in Python, SQL, and AWS services, along with strong data modelling skills. The company offers remote work, a competitive salary, and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Opportunities for professional development

Dynamic collaborative work environment

Flexible work arrangements

Qualifications

• Must be proficient in Python and SQL.
• Experience with AWS data services is necessary.
• Strong understanding of data modelling and orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Create and drive a scalable data platform architecture.
• Champion data reliability and quality practices.
• Establish operational reliability patterns across the data team.

Skills

Proficient in Python

Proficient in SQL

Familiar with AWS data services (S3, Glue, EMR, ECS, Lambda)

Strong data modelling skills

Experience with BI and orchestration tools

Experience in leading architectural decisions

Experience mentoring data engineers

Experience working remotely

Job description

We are a fast-growing Series A startup building cutting‑edge technology to revolutionize cloud development processes and support highly efficient dev&test feedback loops. We’ve closed our last $25mil round in Q4 2024, led by Notable Capital, CRV and Heavybit.

At its core, LocalStack provides a high‑fidelity emulator and local cloud development platform. Imagine developing cloud applications and data pipelines entirely on your local machine within a lightweight cloud sandbox, running in Docker!

Our mission is to empower developers to rapidly build and test their cloud applications, allowing for a more enjoyable dev experience, and saving valuable time and resources.

LocalStack has a large and active open‑source community (57k+ stars on GitHub) with over 100k active users worldwide and 290M+ downloads to date. Our customer base ranges from SMBs to Global Fortune 500 companies.

We are sustainably growing our globally distributed team across sectors

LocalStack is headquartered in Zurich/Switzerland 🇨🇭, with a main engineering office in Vienna/Austria 🇦🇹and remote team members from 🇺🇸the US, 🇫🇷FR, 🇬🇧UK, 🇨🇦CA, 🇪🇸ES, and many more countries.

Check our Notion Candidate Handbook and our GitHub!

This is the right opportunity for a person who wants to help create a coherent, scalable and reliable data platform, driving implementation of the strategic roadmap and representing the data team to the whole organization at the technical level.

✅ What you will be working on / responsible for

• Create and drive adoption of a coherent, scalable data platform architecture that supports high‑volume events, relational analytics, and user‑persona‑aligned design
• Introduce and champion modelling, lineage, quality, and operational practices that make data reliable, observable, and easy for different personas to use, resulting in fewer incidents and clearer cost transparency.
• Establish and evolve operational reliability patterns: SLOs, debugging flows, efficiency improvements, that measurably increase resilience and reduce operational load.
• Increase self‑serve adoption and reduce onboarding time and dependence on the platform team by shaping platform interfaces, semantics, and user experiences
• Define the process for build/buy decisions, designing effective tooling stack, communicating and defending these decisions to the relevant stakeholders
• Work collaboratively together with other stakeholders outside of the data team to influence decision making and overall roadmap
• Driving implementation of the data strategy, aligning teams on technical roadmap: decisions are understood, trade‑offs are accepted, and ambiguity is reduced through clear communication and narrative
• Define processes how the data team collaborates with other teams in LocalStack, reducing cross team friction

✅ Experience we expect you to bring to the role

• Proficient in Python, SQL, and AWS data services (S3, Glue, EMR, ECS, Lambda).
• Experience designing hybrid data platforms (streaming, batch, warehouse/lakehouse).
• Strong data modelling skills, including semantics, lineage, cataloguing, and metadata management.
• Familiar with orchestration patterns and full data lifecycle design.
• Experience with BI and orchestration tools supporting analytics and platform workflows.
• Experience of Leading architectural decisions across modelling and ingestion.
• Experience mentoring data engineers, levelling up the technical capabilities in the team
• Experience in working remotely/ in async settings (preferred)

🌱 Values we hold in LocalStack

• Care: we create with compassion. We prioritize empathy and understanding in every interaction. By genuinely caring for our team, customers, and community, we create an environment where people thrive and impactful work flourishes
• Ownership: we own the outcome. We take responsibility for our work and are passionate about its impact. We foster autonomy, inspire ambition, encourage ownership, and empower everyone to unlock their potential and make an impact.
• Openness: we build trust together. We build trust through open communication and honest feedback. By sharing ideas and embracing diverse perspectives, we create stronger, more connected teams that work toward shared goals.
• Courage: we dare to innovate. We embrace bold challenges and take calculated risks to move the needle. We step outside our comfort zones, experiment fearlessly, and turn setbacks into springboards for growth.
• Excellence: we chase the extraordinary. We chase excellence by pushing boundaries and delivering results that go beyond the ordinary, constantly raising the bar and striving for greatness in everything we do. Excellence is not just the outcome, itʼs how we approach every task with purpose, passion, and a commitment to delivering exceptional value

• Fully remote
• Competitive salary
• Opportunities for professional development and training.
• Dynamic and collaborative work environment.
• Flexible work arrangements.

We’d love to hear from you! Join us in shaping the future of cloud development at LocalStack.

To apply, follow the LI application process or apply on our career page. Make sure to include a short motivation outlining why you are the perfect candidate for this role.

If your profile looks like a good match we will be in touch to organize further steps within 2 weeks.

Please note, that due to a high volume of candidates, we cannot offer personalized feedback to each candidate.