Senior Software Engineer (Data Platform)

Maropost

21h

About The Position

Maropost is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Data Platform) to join their product-driven team. This role involves building a scalable analytics platform that powers reporting, cross-cloud insights, machine learning, and AI-driven experiences. The ideal candidate enjoys solving complex data and platform challenges, collaborating across teams, and delivering outcomes end-to-end with minimal dependencies. Maropost is a fast-growing company featured on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 list and G2's leaderboard, offering a unified commerce experience for over 5,000 global brands.

Requirements

5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building and operating highly scalable distributed systems, data platforms, or backend services in production.
Strong experience with modern analytical data warehouses such as ClickHouse, BigQuery, Snowflake, or Amazon Redshift.
Experience designing and operating large-scale data ingestion pipelines using Kafka, Pulsar, CDC-based architectures, and related streaming technologies.
Strong SQL skills with hands-on experience in data modelling, query optimization, and analytical workloads.
Experience working on data platforms, data engineering, or analytics engineering initiatives involving large-scale data processing and transformation workloads.
Experience building and maintaining backend services in Go (preferred) or another modern strongly typed programming language, along with proficiency in Python.
Experience with cloud platforms, preferably GCP, including managed data, messaging, and observability services.
Experience owning and delivering production systems end-to-end, from technical design and stakeholder discussions through deployment, operational support, and iterative improvements across multiple release cycles.
Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms, data governance practices, data security controls, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
Experience with analytical and time-series databases such as PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, or similar technologies.
Comfortable participating in on-call rotations and focused on building simple, efficient solutions without over-engineering.
Proactive and self-driven, with strong problem-solving and communication skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Deep expertise in ClickHouse, including internals, materialized views, and OLAP workload optimization, is a plus.
Familiarity with tools such as Debezium, Flink, Dataflow, or similar streaming and data processing frameworks is preferred.
Exposure to AI-powered applications, LLM integrations, or agentic workflows is an added advantage.

Responsibilities

Design and build scalable data platform services that power analytics, reporting, machine learning, and AI workloads across Maropost products.
Build and maintain reliable data ingestion pipelines using CDC and event-driven architectures.
Develop and evolve our centralized analytics warehouse, ensuring high performance, scalability, and maintainability.
Design and implement data models, materialized views, and aggregation strategies to support product analytics and business reporting.
Build supporting APIs and services that expose analytics and reporting capabilities to internal and external consumers.
Define and implement multi-tenant security controls, data governance standards, and access management policies.
Monitor platform health, data freshness, ingestion lag, and overall system reliability.
Contribute to technical specifications and actively participate in architecture and design discussions.
Improve developer productivity through automation, tooling, observability, and operational excellence.
Strengthen test coverage and engineering practices to ensure reliable and maintainable systems.