Senior Data Engineer

Basis NZ Ltd; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP

Unlimited annual leave

Laptop and headset allowance

AI tools access (Claude)

Basis Smart Panel

Flexible hours

Team events

Job summary

Basis NZ Ltd is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own our data platform, turning high-rate home energy data into evidence for regulators and decisions for customers. You will architect pipelines, implement quality controls, and deliver data products for regulatory and commercial needs.

You’ll collaborate with software, embedded and hardware engineers, enforce data governance, and operate with a high degree of autonomy in a cross-disciplinary team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a data engineering role building end-to-end ETL pipelines and datasets, ideally with high-rate time-series or sensor data.
• Experience building, maintaining and improving batch and streaming data pipelines.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, and storage optimized for high-speed time series data.
• Experience implementing DevOps practices within the data platform, including CI/CD, data observability, monitoring and lineage.
• The ability to write software in at least two of: C, C++, C#, Rust, Go, Python, JavaScript.
• An understanding of the wider system and its impact on software decisions.
• A track record of working with autonomy and owning systems end to end.
• Comfort with uncertainty and a team-first attitude.

Responsibilities

• Own the data platform end to end.
• Architect and maintain data infrastructure for analytics, modelling and reporting across cloud and edge platforms.
• Build, maintain and improve batch and streaming data pipelines.
• Establish pipelines that demonstrate automated data quality and regulatory compliance for metering data.
• Own reporting and data products that underpin commercial and regulatory obligations.
• Link high-rate data with national and global climate, energy and financial streams.
• Own energy & savings models, validation and fleet reporting.
• Enforce data quality, security, governance, availability and lineage across the platform.
• Set up & maintain test frameworks, CI and data QC; support systems integration testing.

Skills

ETL pipelines

Batch & streaming

Data warehouses

SQL

NoSQL

CI/CD

Data observability

Go

Python

Rust

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

About Us

At Basis, we’re not just building a company — we’re building the future. We’re redesigning the electrical systems that power our homes to fight climate change, reduce household costs, and create a better future for generations to come. That means rethinking everything, not just what we build, but how we build it.

To do this, we need incredible people. People who are bold, creative, sharp, and thoughtful. People who care. People who move fast and think differently. That’s where you come in.

The Role

We're looking for a senior data engineer to own our data platform. Our panels produce high-rate, high-resolution data about how electrical energy moves through homes. Your work will turn that data into evidence our regulator relies on, models our customers make decisions with, and insights the energy industry will pay for.

You’ll build and run the pipelines, the automated quality controls that demonstrate regulatory compliance for our metering business, and the savings and Mission Control models behind our customer‑facing claims. You’ll work alongside software, embedded and hardware engineers, with the autonomy that comes from being the person who knows the data platform end to end.

This is a senior seat. You’ll hold the platform with little supervision, so we need someone flexible, with a high degree of autonomy and ownership, who can hit the ground running. You’ll report to our Engineering Lead – Platform.

Location: Christchurch or Auckland, with hybrid flexibility. Note; there will be some travel to Christchurch required if you are based out of Auckland.

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll own the data platform end to end. Some of the things you’ll be involved in include:

• Data infrastructure: architect and maintain data infrastructure for analytics, modelling and reporting across cloud and edge platforms.

• Pipelines: build, maintain and improve batch and streaming data pipelines.

• Automated data quality control: establish pipelines that compare required performance to measured results, evidencing regulatory compliance for our metering business.

• Metering data products: own the reporting and data products that our commercial and regulatory obligations depend on.

• Heterogeneous data: link our products’ high‑rate, high‑resolution data with national and global climate, energy and financial data streams.

• Models: own the energy & savings models, their validation and the fleet reporting behind them.

• Data best practices: enforce the quality, security, governance, availability and lineage of data across the platform.

• Testing and standards: set up and maintain test frameworks, including continuous integration and data QC; supply data for systems integration testing; and review peers’ code to lift data engineering standards across the team.

About You

We think you’ll be a fit if you have a track record of owning data systems end to end, with pipelines that have produced lasting results rather than only moving data from A to B. You’ll bring:

• 5+ years in a data engineering role building end-to-end ETL pipelines and datasets, and working with data warehouses, data lakes and the associated infrastructure, ideally with high-rate time‑series or sensor data

• Experience building, maintaining and improving batch and streaming data pipelines

• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, and storage optimised for high‑speed time series data

• Experience implementing DevOps practices within the data platform, including CI/CD, data observability, monitoring and lineage

• The ability to write software in at least two of: C, C++, C#, Rust, Go, Python, JavaScript

• An understanding of the wider system beyond software, and the ability to articulate the impact of systems decisions on software and vice versa

• A track record of working with a high degree of autonomy and owning systems end to end

• Comfort with uncertainty and a team‑first attitude: you work well in a cross‑disciplinary team and contribute to the overall product

Nice to have:

• Experience with Go

• Streaming protocols such as MQTT or ZMQ

• Log processing, especially with Fluentd

• Query engines over data lakes (e.g. Athena/Trino, BigQuery)

• Experience with custom electronics or real‑time sensor data

• A background in signal processing or data science

• Experience in regulated or metering data environments

Research shows that while men apply for jobs when they meet ~ 60% of the job criteria, women and other marginalised groups tend to apply only when they check every box. So if you think you have what it takes, but are not sure you check every box, we still want to hear from you.

Benefits

• A competitive salary and employee share scheme (ESOP)

• Unlimited annual leave so that you can take the time that you need to re‑energise

• Tools of trade, including laptop and headphone allowance

• The latest AI tools on us, including Claude, to experiment with, learn from, and make your work more enjoyable

• Your very own Basis Smart Panel (conditions apply)

• Flexible hours — we focus on outcomes, so adjust your day around whānau, hobbies, or other commitments.

• A schedule of fun team events throughout the year (Lego Battlebots, table tennis, themed Friday drinks, and more!)

• Office dogs + steady supply offresh fruit and snacks in the office

• Access to Clearhead, our well‑being programme which gives you 5x free sessions with a psychologist per year

• A commitment to diversity and inclusion: Pride Committee and partnering with Pride Pledge, DEIB Committee, EEO Policy and well‑being strategy!

• Parental leave policy that tops up wages to 100% for the primary caregiver for up to 22 weeks and up to 6 weeks for secondary caregivers (conditions apply)

• The opportunity to learn and develop from some of the best and brightest minds in the industry!