Senior / Lead Data Engineer

CoinDesk

Senior Data Engineer owning and evolving Data Platform at CoinDesk. Collaborating with AI/ML team and stakeholders to drive data solutions and architecture decisions.

Posted 4/25/2026full-timeHong Kong • 🇭🇰 Hong KongSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowApacheBigQueryCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Collaborate with stakeholders to decompose ambiguous problems into tested data solutions.
Own our medallion architecture (bronze → silver → gold), ensuring quality at every layer.
Develop dbt models, tests, and docs serving cross-functional stakeholders.
Drive modelling decisions — dimensional models, snapshots, SCDs — across Exchange and Market Data.
Design and maintain production data pipelines using Apache Airflow.
Improve pipeline observability, alerting, and SLA monitoring; champion reliability practices.
Mentor engineers via design reviews, pairing, and documentation.
Evaluate new tools or patterns (streaming, real-time views) where they add value.
Collaborate with the team’s AI specialists to deliver AI-driven Data Platform capabilities.

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ years in Data Engineering, with 2+ years in a senior or lead capacity.
Pragmatic problem-solver — you set direction, unblock others, and make trade-offs.
Strong communicator — can whiteboard architecture and narrate data stories alike.
Deep expertise in SQL, Python, and modern tooling (dbt, Airflow, BigQuery or equiv.).
Strong data modelling fundamentals — you think in schemas, grain, and lineage first.
Production GCP experience (BigQuery, GCS, GKE, IAM) or comparable cloud platforms.
Solid grasp of Kubernetes concepts (pods, Helm charts, resource management).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Professional development opportunities
Flexible work arrangements

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Hard Skills & Tools

SQLPythondbtApache AirflowBigQuerydata modellingdimensional modelssnapshotsSCDsproduction data pipelines

Soft Skills

problem-solvingcommunicationmentoringcollaborationdirection settingunblocking otherstrade-off makingdesign reviewsdocumentationnarrating data stories