Senior Data Engineer, Event Data

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About the role

  • Senior Data Engineer responsible for designing and maintaining event streaming pipelines at Movable Ink. Working with modern technologies to enhance data availability and reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain event streaming pipelines that ingest data from client systems, internal services, and third-party sources into the data platform
  • Develop and operate analytical databases and data models optimized for high-volume event data queries and low-latency access
  • Write production Elixir and Python services for event processing, transformation, and routing
  • Integrate legacy event pipelines with modern streaming infrastructure, designing migration paths that minimize risk and disruption to downstream consumers
  • Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling for event data systems, ensuring pipeline health, data freshness, and SLA compliance
  • Define and enforce event schemas, data contracts, and quality standards in partnership with producing and consuming teams
  • Collaborate with the data platform, product engineering, and analytics teams to understand data needs and deliver reliable event data products
  • Participate in system design reviews and help establish best practices for the Events Data team

Requirements

  • 6+ years of professional experience in data engineering or backend/systems engineering, with significant focus on event-driven and streaming data systems
  • Strong proficiency in Elixir and/or Python as a primary programming language for building application connectors, data services and pipeline components
  • Advanced SQL skills for data modeling, query optimization, and analytical workloads
  • Hands-on experience with columnar/OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) databases at production scale
  • Experience with stream processing frameworks and message brokers such as Apache Flink, Kafka, Pulsar, or Kinesis; Flink experience is a strong plus
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate and migrate systems, bridging legacy and modern architectures
  • Proven track record of operationalizing data pipelines, including building monitoring, alerting, SLA dashboards, and runbooks for production systems
  • Experience designing and operating data systems on AWS; GCP experience is a plus
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills, comfortable leading design discussions, writing technical specs, and working across team boundaries
  • Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar
  • Experience with retail events data such as clickstream, purchase events, or product interaction data is a plus

Benefits

  • full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$145,000 - CA$185,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

ApacheAWSElixirGoogle Cloud PlatformKafkaPulsarPythonSQLTerraform

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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