
Data Engineer
Staycation India
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Paris • France
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About the role
- Lead the evolution of our data stack to ensure scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Anticipate growth in data volume, complexity, and use cases, and design systems that scale accordingly.
- Define and implement long-term technical standards for the data platform.
- Build and maintain reliable data pipelines to ingest data from internal systems, APIs, and external tools.
- Centralize and factorize pipelines within an orchestration tool, ensuring clear dependencies and monitoring.
- Ensure pipelines are resilient, observable, and easy to maintain.
- Support Data Analysts by improving dbt project structure, factorizing models, and strengthening transformation quality.
- Implement data testing, monitoring, alerting, and freshness checks.
- Own the reliability of data used by stakeholders, ensuring trust in dashboards and analyses.
- Deploy machine learning and AI solutions into production environments.
- Work closely with Data Analysts and stakeholders to ensure the data stack empowers teams effectively.
- Document pipelines, models, and workflows to support onboarding and long-term autonomy.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of experience in data engineering or a similar role, with real ownership over data infrastructure.
- Highly proficient in SQL and Python.
- Hands-on experience with modern data stacks (e.g., Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran).
- Strong understanding of data warehousing, data modeling, and performance optimization.
- Experience deploying machine learning models to production.
- Care deeply about data quality, reliability, and maintainability.
- Autonomous, structured, and comfortable making technical trade-offs.
- Clear communicator with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Enjoy collaborating and building solid foundations for others to build upon.
Benefits
- Take ownership of a foundational data role with long-term impact.
- Work on a modern data stack in a fast-growing, international tech company.
- Be at the heart of Staycation’s growth, new market launches, and AI ambitions.
- Join a collaborative team that values autonomy, pragmatism, and impact.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
SQLPythondata engineeringdata warehousingdata modelingperformance optimizationmachine learningdata testingdata pipelinesdata transformation
Soft Skills
autonomousstructuredclear communicationcollaborationownershipattention to detailproblem-solvingadaptabilitytechnical trade-offsstakeholder engagement