Senior Data Engineer - Streaming & Snowflake

Simple Life App; Poland; Hybrid; PLN 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Hybrid work

Premium SIMPLE subscription

21 days annual leave

Flexible hours

Job summary

Simple Life is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our Tech team. You will design, build, and maintain streaming data pipelines and ingestion systems, ensuring robust, scalable data flow from APIs and events into our Snowflake data lake.

You will own infrastructure as code with Terraform, work with AWS services, and optimize data processing for reliability, observability, and latency. Remote/hybrid options are available.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial Python experience in a backend or data engineering role.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture, including load balancing and asynchronous processing.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud services, preferably AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, containers in ECS/EKS).
• Experience building streaming pipelines (Kinesis, SQS, or equivalents).
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform or equivalents).
• Working knowledge of SQL: read/write queries, joins and window functions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain streaming pipelines.
• Develop custom ingestion pipelines from third-party APIs, webhooks, and SDKs.
• Migrate existing data ingestion pipelines from SaaS tools to our own infrastructure.
• Deliver data to the raw layer of our Snowflake warehouse with schema consistency and resilience.
• Evolve the AWS streaming stack (Kinesis, SQS, Lambda, API Gateway) for cost efficiency and observability.
• Maintain infrastructure as code (Terraform) for ingestion and processing resources.
• Monitor pipelines, troubleshoot, and resolve incidents.
• Contribute to safe data access for AI agents and tooling.
• Continuously improve ingestion architecture and engineering practices.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

AWS cloud

Streaming pipelines

SQL

Tools

Terraform

Kinesis

SQS

Lambda

API Gateway

ECS/EKS

Job description

Simple Life is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our Tech team. You will design, build, and maintain streaming data pipelines and ingestion systems, ensuring robust, scalable data flow from APIs and events into our Snowflake data lake.

You will own infrastructure as code with Terraform, work with AWS services, and optimize data processing for reliability, observability, and latency. Remote/hybrid options are available.