Senior Data Engineer

The role

The Senior Data Engineer will design and scale a data platform for analytics, product insights, and machine learning. You will own data architecture, build reliable pipelines, and partner with product, engineering, and analytics teams.

What you will do

• Lead design discussions around data architecture, modeling strategy, and platform evolution
• Identify opportunities to simplify and scale the data platform
• Drive improvements to data reliability, observability, and data quality
• Establish and promote best practices for data modeling, testing, and code review
• Help the team prioritize work and balance speed with technical quality
• Develop and optimize ETL processes
• Integrate data sources across a broad product portfolio
• Mentor other data engineers
• Model data and metadata to support reporting for BI tools and analytical reporting
• Optimize the performance of business-critical queries

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of data engineering experience
• Experience with data warehouses and large-scale analytics systems (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, etc.)
• Strong experience designing and building data pipelines and data platforms
• Cloud infrastructure experience
• Experience building and maintaining relational as well as document, key-value, and other noSQL databases
• Advanced Python & SQL skills
• Experience working with third-party APIs for data integration
• Experience with business process automation
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field (or similar combination of education and experience)
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, etc.)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation)
• Experience with event or streaming systems (Kafka or similar)

Nice to have

• AWS preferred
• Spark and Redshift experience (PySpark preferred)

Benefits

• Performance bonus opportunities
• Employee referral rewards
• Flexible Time Off (FTO)
• 13 paid public holidays aligned with the Czech calendar
• Paid sick leave
• Maternity, paternity, and parental leave in line with Czech regulations
• Additional paid paternity leave from 8am
• Full statutory benefits including public health insurance, social security, pension, and work accident coverage
• Access to Coursera (including Gen AI Academy)
• Ongoing professional development
• Opportunities to travel for company events
• High-quality company swag

About the company

8am builds software that helps professionals run stronger businesses. Their platform powers payments, client experience, and operational workflows for legal, accounting, and other service-based businesses.