Software Engineer (Data)

Primer; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive share options

Flexible holiday – 25 days

Co-working space access across major 


Workations & Company Retreat

The best equipment for your role

£500 towards home office setup

Generous learning budget

Private Medical Insurance

Job summary

Primer, a remote-first payments platform, is seeking a data engineer to own batch and streaming pipelines and to design internal tools and APIs that turn data into actionable analytics for product and engineering teams. You will model and transform data in dbt and determine data movement across CockroachDB, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, and Snowflake.

You’ll ship pipelines with tests, CI/CD, containers, and observability using OpenTelemetry and Datadog, collaborating across a distributed team.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with clean, tested code.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL with production data experience.
• Hands-on experience building batch and streaming data pipelines in production.

Responsibilities

• Own batch and streaming data pipelines end-to-end.
• Design internal tools and APIs to expose analytics-ready data.
• Model and transform data in dbt for a reliable warehouse.
• Decide data storage/motion across CockroachDB, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch and Snowflake.
• Ship pipelines with tests, CI/CD, containers, and observability.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Job description

An Introduction to Primer

Primer is the unified infrastructure for global payments. We give finance and payments teams the visibility and control to reduce complexity, improve performance, and capture more revenue - all from a single platform.

Backed by Sofina, Peak XV Partners, ICONIQ, Tencent, Accel, and Balderton, we're building the payments layer the world's best companies rely on.

Watch our showcase > https://primer.io/the-primer-showcase

Read up on our $100m Series C https://www.primer.io/blog/series-c

Learn more about our culture > https://primer.io/careers

Which team will you be joining?

Primer’s payments platform produces a constant stream of transaction, merchant and product data, and the data team turns it into something the rest of the company can rely on. You’ll work day to day with product and engineering teams. The team treats data as a software discipline, so pipelines, models and tools get the same review, testing and ownership as product code.

What will you be doing?

• Own batch and streaming pipelines, including CDC feeds from operational databases into Snowflake, and make them reliable enough that other teams stop thinking about them.
• Design the internal tools and APIs that make data usable for analytics, product features and machine learning.
• Model and transform data in dbt so the warehouse is a source of truth people trust, not a pile of tables nobody can explain.
• Decide how data should be stored and moved across CockroachDB, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch and Snowflake, and build the path between them.
• Ship pipelines with the same standards as any production service: tests, CI/CD, containers, and observability through OpenTelemetry and Datadog.
• Take a multi-component data project from scoping through to rollout, bringing other engineers into the design along the way.

What we’re looking for

Must-haves:

• Strong software engineering fundamentals: tested, reviewed code with clean abstractions.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Hands-on experience building and running batch or streaming data pipelines in production.
• Comfort across cloud-native infrastructure, ideally AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform.
• Clear written and verbal communication, and a habit of sharing what you learn.

Nice to have:

• Working experience with Snowflake and dbt.
• Experience with CDC tooling or streaming systems.

You may not like it here

• We're remote-first and always will be. There's no office to fall back on, so you'll need to be self-directed and comfortable communicating in writing.
• Context and priorities shift quickly. If you need a clear plan handed to you every week, this will be hard going.
• There are no testers or QAs here. Writing and owning your own tests isn't optional, and if you don't enjoy it, you'll feel the gap.

A TYPICAL INTERVIEW PROCESS

• An initial intro call with a Talent Partner
• An interview with the Hiring Manager
• Challenge Stage - Contextualised to the role
• A final, values-alignment interview

WHAT'S THE CULTURE LIKE AT PRIMER?

We're building a culture where people can do their best work and be proud of the impact they have. You'll be working with people who are mission-driven, smart, and reflective, and who are genuinely invested in building exceptional products and delivering success for our merchants.

We work remotely, and have done since day one. We believe that building a successful, profitable company goes beyond proximity. We invest in our relationships through great remote working practices and thoughtfully designed face-to-face time, including workations, our annual company retreat, and access to co-working spaces across most major cities.

The work is challenging. Scaleups are a challenge, and building category-defining products is a challenge. But there's a meaningful difference between a challenge and a struggle. At Primer, the right challenge comes with the right support: strong onboarding, a collaborative environment, and a team that is genuinely invested in your success. It's never something you face alone.

OUR BENEFITS

We are fully remote and globally distributed; and have been since day one

• Competitive share options
• Flexible holiday, with 25 days minimum to be taken
• Co-working space access across major cities
• Workations & Company Retreat
• The best equipment for your role
• £500 towards your home office setup
• Generous learning budget
• Private Medical Insurance
• A broad set of additional perks and benefits (depending on location)

DON’T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

At Primer, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification listed, we encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Primer is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees …