Data Automation Engineer (Python and SQL)

Pax8 Philippines Inc.; Philippines; On-site; PHP 1,451,000 - 1,674,000; Full time

Job summary

Pax8 Philippines Inc. in Makati, Philippines, is seeking a Data Automation Engineer (Python and SQL) for a permanent night shift (10pm–6am).

The role centers on building end-to-end automation around monthly billing, with Python services and data workflows handling large-scale financial data. You will design dashboards, APIs, and alerting pipelines, while mentoring teammates on observability and best practices.

Qualifications

• 3+ years as a full stack engineer or software developer.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL (required).
• Experience with data pipelines or automation tools.
• Cloud data warehouse experience (Redshift/Snowflake/BigQuery).
• Familiarity with orchestration tools (Airflow/Argo).

Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end observability and automation tooling for the monthly billing run.
• Write and maintain Python services and data workflows that analyze and act on financial and subscription data at scale.
• Design and maintain dashboards, APIs, automation scripts, alerting pipelines for stakeholders.
• Mentor team members on observability and automation practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve billing issues and build scalable solutions.
• Translate recurring pain points into scalable tools for self-service troubleshooting.
• Contribute to root cause investigations using SQL and Python.
• Provide calm support during incident response and retrospectives.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Observability

BI tools

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

dbt

PowerBI

Streamlit

Job description

Data Automation Engineer (Python and SQL)

SALARY: PHP 130,000 - 150,000 per month plus 30% night differential

Makati, Philippines | Pax8

The role will be on a Permanent Night Shift Schedule (10pm - 6am)

Why Pax8?

Pax8 is transforming the way technology is bought, sold, and managed. Our AI-powered marketplace connects managed service providers, vendors, and small businesses through intelligent automation and cloud innovation. Learn more about our journey, culture, and impact through Pax8's global success stories, marketplace innovation initiatives, and award-winning workplace culture. If you thrive in environments where curiosity, ownership, collaboration, and innovation are celebrated, you'll feel right at home here.

What You'll Be Doing

• Build end-to-end observability and automation tooling that enhances visibility, efficiency, and accuracy in the monthly billing run (spanning the 1st–7th of each month).
• Write and maintain Python services and data workflows that analyze and act on financial and subscription data at scale.
• Design and maintain full stack solutions (dashboards, APIs, automation scripts, alerting pipelines) that surface actionable insights to technical and operational stakeholders.
• Serve as the technical mentor and coach to other Marketplace Operation’s team members, guiding architectural decisions, code quality, and best practices in observability and automation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders in Engineering, Product, Support and Finance to solve systemic billing issues and build durable solutions.
• Translate recurring operational pain points into scalable tools, enabling proactive monitoring and self-service troubleshooting for billing data anomalies.
• Contribute to root cause investigations using a combination of SQL, Python, and systems-level thinking.
• Provide calm, measured support during high-stakes incident response windows and act as a steady technical leader during retrospectives and resolution planning.

Your Impact

Your work will directly influence how Pax8 manages billions of marketplace transactions, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and confidence throughout the billing lifecycle. You'll create solutions that empower teams, improve partner experiences, and reduce operational complexity at scale. Success in this role means transforming recurring challenges into intelligent systems that continuously improve how the business operates.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• 3+ years of experience as a full stack engineer or software developer, with a strong focus on backend systems and data-rich applications.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL (both required), with experience building services and working with data pipelines or automation tools.
• Knowledge or understanding basic data modelling concepts.
• Cloud data warehouse experience (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, or equivalent).
• Orchestration awareness (Airflow, Argo or similar): reading DAG status, distinguishing run success vs test health.
• Basic CI familiarity (linting, PR checks) for analytics code.
• Experience handling large-scale financial or subscription datasets.
• Knowledge using Jira, Kubernetes and Docker tooling in addition to AWS is a plus.
• Strong understanding of observability principles, including metrics, logging, alerting, and system health tracking.
• Experience building internal tools, operational dashboards, and BI tools (e.g., using frameworks like dbt, PowerBI, Streamlit, or similar).
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally with analysts, operations, and product teams to design scalable technical solutions to business problems.
• Clear and patient communicator who can bridge the gap between technical complexity and operational needs.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and making thoughtful trade-offs to deliver incremental value while moving toward long-term solutions.

Trust and Hiring

At Pax8, we care deeply about building genuine, trust based relationships — starting with how we hire. To protect our business, our teams, and our customers, we use a range of measures throughout the recruitment process to help confirm authenticity and prevent fraud. These safeguards are designed to be fair, respectful, and proportionate, and may evolve as risks change. By applying, you acknowledge that we take steps to verify identity and representation during hiring. If you're applying as your authentic self, you have nothing to worry about — we're excited to meet you. We also use thoughtfully applied AI-enabled tools to support our hiring process. These tools may assist with tasks such as reviewing or prioritising applications, but hiring decisions are made by our people. More information is available in our Recruitment Privacy Notice. If you have questions about how we hire or would prefer not to have your application supported by these tools, you can opt out at any part of our process.

Everyone Is Welcome Here

We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet 100% of the criteria. We're committed to diverse perspectives, inclusive hiring and sharing your transferrable skills. To fulfil this role, you must hold valid right to work in Philippines.

Benefits

• Salary: Competitive and dependent on experience
• 20 Annual Leaves (accruing monthly)
• Pax8 offers an additional 10 days of bonus leave every year. And yes, the 10 days are available from your first day.
• Private Health Insurance.
• Unlimited growth through our learning & development (L&D) programs in an environment that fosters internal promotions, helping you gain the necessary skills to reach the next step in your professional journey.
• Connecting with our community is important, which is why we have our donation matching program, DEI-B events, and employee resource groups to ensure everyone feels at home at Pax8.

Our Makati Office

• Energetic office located at KMC Solutions, One Ayala Mall, Makati City
• Dedicated Pax8 Lounge Area overlooking Makati Avenue
• Relaxation area with massage chairs
• Fully stocked pantry cabinet
• Weekly treats including Monday waffles and Thursday soft serve ice cream
• Regular team events including Pax8 Thursday Karaoke
• Coffee machines
• Modern workstations equipped with monitors and essential productivity tools
• Great office culture

Growth Without Limits

There's extensive room for a talented individual to grow at pace — whether that's advancing quickly in this role or exploring one of the many opportunities across our global organisation. You'll have access to our internal development hub designed to accelerate your skills and stretch your potential. Alongside specialist Learning & Development trainers, you'll also tap into AI powered tools, "born in the cloud" mentors, and cross continent collaboration that broaden your perspective and sharpen your expertise. We'll give you the space, trust, and the right projects to help you thrive — and full visibility of what it takes to reach your next level.

About Pax8

Our mission is to build the managed intelligence marketplace and empower small businesses to do more with smarter technology. We are a fast-growing, dynamic, and high-energy organisation with a start-up feel, allowing you to make a meaningful impact on the business. Culture is also important to us, and at Pax8, it's business, and it IS personal. We are passionate, creative, and unconventional. We work hard, keep it fun, and expect the best! We Elev8 each other. We Advoc8 for our partners. We Innov8 continuously. We Celebr8 life.

Background Checks

As part of our hiring process, we are required to undertake pre-employment checks on all candidates that are successful in their application with Pax8. As part of these checks Pax8 will request ID verification, reference requests and qualification checks (additional checks may be completed for certain countries, such as criminal and financial). All checks are completed by our third-party provider, First Advantage. Once checks have been completed all candidates will receive a copy for their records.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunities Pax8 are an equal opportunities employer and welcome individuals who are in possession of the appropriate requirements to work within the country you have applied for. Offered individuals will be asked to undertake identity, security compliance and reference checks. Your privacy is important to us. Your data will be held in accordance with local best practices and processed only in accordance with our recruiting processes. Privacy notice: https://www.pax8.com/en-us/terms/job-applicant-privacy-notice/

We are the global AI and cloud Marketplace for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Pax8 connects service providers and technology companies on a unified platform to discover, buy, sell, deploy and manage technology solutions for SMBs. More than 47,000 IT partners and 800,000 SMBs rely on Pax8 for expertise, automation and real-time insights to stay productive, protected and prepared for the AI economy. Learn more at pax8.com. Our purpose is to help every small business turn their dreams into reality through the power of technology. Culture is important to us, and at Pax8, its business, and it IS personal. We embody Compassionate Candour by aiming to assist others with candid, actionable feedback. We Seek to Understand by being open, curious, and committed to learning. We believe in We Before Me, actively collaborating and seeking out diverse perspectives to ensure a win for Team Pax8. The team takes pride in Do What You Say, taking ownership, honoring commitments, prioritizing, and delivering on promises. We encourage everyone to Light Up Learning by being brave and trying new ideas, embracing vulnerability, and sharing failures so everyone can learn. Finally, we are Driven by Passion, connecting personal passion to Pax8's mission, and remaining resilient in the face of adversity and uncertainty in pursuit of our goals. At Pax8, we are passionate, creative, and humorously offbeat. We work hard, keep it fun, and expect the best!