Senior Data Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in France.

📋 Description

• Ensure the reliability and maintenance of the platform utilizing Composer/Airflow, self-hosted Airbyte on GKE, BigQuery, dbt, and Terraform.

• Oversee daily operations, including incident management and support for Data Analysts.

• Design and refine technical and functional testing, monitoring, and alerting processes.

• Industrialize data ingestion via Airbyte; manage schema evolution and external tables in BigQuery.

• Provide business tools through reverse ETL and synchronization with HubSpot, Gainsight, Intercom, and PostgreSQL.

• Create the webhooks → Pub/Sub → Cloud Run streaming architecture.

• Expand the MCP Analytics layer to BigQuery and establish the semantic layer to enhance AI responses.

• Manage costs and security aspects, including BigQuery slots, dbt routing, FinOps reviews, least privilege principles, and securing AI data access.

• Engage in architectural decisions, code reviews, documentation, and continuous improvement efforts.

• Collaborate effectively with Data Engineers, Data Analysts, and the Head of Data.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of Data Engineering experience with a significant cloud provider, including the maintenance of production systems.

• Proficient in SQL with experience in complex dbt models (incremental materializations, snapshots, macros), along with the ability to debug and optimize.

• Extensive experience in data ingestion and pipeline orchestration, including debugging, schema drift management, recovery, backfills, and impact analysis.

• High-quality, well-tested Python development skills.

• Daily utilization of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices.

• Experience working with a Coding Agent, capable of reviewing and validating its output.

• Proactive, meticulous, humble, and enthusiastic about sharing knowledge and fostering colleague development.

• Comfortable functioning within a partially remote team environment.

• At least B2 level proficiency in English.

• Experience with semantic layers, GCP Knowledge Catalog, or data governance is a significant advantage.

• Familiarity with event-driven architectures is a considerable plus.

• GCP experience, including BigQuery, Composer, Cloud Run, GKE / Helm, is advantageous.

• Experience in building tools for AI agents is an asset.

• Familiarity with integrations for HubSpot, Gainsight, and Intercom is a benefit.

• Experience building data pipelines using Change Data Capture is a plus.

• Contributions to the Airbyte ecosystem are a notable advantage.

🏝️ Benefits

• SYNTEC vacation bonus.

• 39-hour workweek, inclusive of 4 paid overtime hours.

• 25 days of paid vacation along with 10 flexible days off (available from the start date).

• Alan health insurance (family coverage options available).

• Swile meal vouchers (€11/day, with €6.50 covered by the company).

• Works Council benefits: annual gift card, Gymlib / EGYM Wellpass, and more.

• Fully remote work arrangement with occasional travel to Lyon for team events.