Xsolla

Senior Data Engineer – Data Governance Lead

Xsolla

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Canada

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Salary

💰 CA$120,000 - CA$170,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • This role will assign the data engineering efforts for the **Uer Platform (CDP)** and **Recommendation Engine**, ensuring data accuracy, performance, data alignment and security across pipelines connecting **Snowflake, Postgres, Kafka, and API Gateway** services.
  • You’ll collaborate with ML engineers, backend teams, and business stakeholders to build reliable, high-performance data systems that support insights, automation, and machine learning use cases
  • This role will lead the data governance best practices and communication cross the organization.

Requirements

  • 3-8 years of experience in Data Engineering, with **data governance responsibilities **.
  • SQL and Python skills, with proven experience building **ETL/ELT** at scale.
  • Understanding of **Snowflake performance tuning**, **query optimization**, and **warehouse orchestration**.
  • Understanding of **data modeling** (Kimball, Data Vault, or hybrid).
  • Familiarity with **API-based data integration** and **microservice architectures**.
  • Excellent cross-functional communication — can translate between engineering and business.
  • Hands-on problem solver who balances velocity with reliability.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
SQLPythonETLELTSnowflake performance tuningquery optimizationwarehouse orchestrationdata modelingAPI-based data integrationmicroservice architectures
Soft Skills
cross-functional communicationproblem solving