Senior Data Engineer, Aiven
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AI-ready open source data platform
Open for applications
AI-ready open source data platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Participate in Aiven’s equity plan.
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help customers create outcomes and accelerate building applications.
Role
Who you are
- Have a proven track record of delivering complex, large-scale data projects from design to production
- Excel at breaking down complex business requirements into clear, actionable technical plans
- Have built tools or systems that are essential to how your team or stakeholders work
- Write clean, effective Python and SQL and are familiar with tools like dbt and Airflow
- Focus on building things that last, with simple and resilient design
- Enjoy collaborating and sharing your thinking with your peers
- Don’t worry if your experience doesn’t line up perfectly – we still encourage you to apply! We believe in investing in our crabs’ professional growth
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a Senior Data Engineer to build and own critical components of our data platform. This is a key IC role for someone who wants to stay close to the craft while delivering reliable systems that power business decisions
- You’ll take on complex data challenges and deliver the robust, scalable solutions our teams rely on every day. The focus is on strong execution: building reusable tools, implementing clear patterns, and ensuring our data infrastructure empowers others to work faster and better
- If you enjoy working on foundational systems, solving complex technical problems, and making a tangible impact on how a business uses data, you’ll feel at home here
- We have no shortage of data. What we’re building now is the platform that turns that data into trusted, fast, and actionable insights
- We’re working on internal tooling, semantic modeling, and automated insight delivery. Whether it's building a better way to define metrics, streamlining root cause analysis, or making analytics more accessible, the problems are well-defined and have a high impact
- You’ll have a clear path to owning critical systems. This role gives you visibility into product, operations, and go-to-market initiatives that are strategic to Aiven’s growth
- Own and deliver key data projects, collaborating closely with stakeholders from Product, Sales, Marketing, and Finance
- Take ownership of the technical design, implementation, and maintenance of data pipelines and modeling solutions
- Build systems that are reliable, reusable, and designed for long-term clarity
- Contribute to architectural decisions and advocate for best practices in Python, dbt, BigQuery, and modern data tooling
- Mentor peers through clean code, thoughtful reviews, and system design
- Visible impact. More than 40 percent of the company uses our internal data platform weekly
- Real ownership. You’ll own significant projects from technical design to implementation
- Strategic scope. The work connects directly to key company priorities, not just internal reporting
- Senior culture. You’ll work with experienced peers in a low-meeting, high-autonomy environment
- Hands-on depth. This is a long-term IC role for engineers who want to go deep and stay technical
Application process
- Once applying you should hear from our Talent Experience team within 5 days regarding the status of your application. If you are selected to move forward you can generally expect 4 stages with us
- 30-45 minute call with one of our Talent Partners
- 45 minute Depth of Expertise Interview with the hiring manager
- Skills interview and or presentation for 1 hour with the wider team
- Company values interview for 1 hour
Our take
The cloud infrastructure is booming as more businesses rely on open-source technologies to run their operations at scale. In this fast-growing space, Finnish company Aiven has carved out a strong reputation since founding in 2016. The company provides fully managed cloud services, helping organizations use open-source tools without the hassle of managing the technical details themselves.
The company works with a wide range of clients around the world, offering services that cover everything from databases to messaging systems and analytics tools. So, Aiven is helping businesses streamline their cloud operations and focus on growth instead of infrastructure headaches. Making complex technology accessible, reliable, and scalable for teams of all sizes.
Recently, Aiven his a major milestone of surpassing $100M in annual recurring revenue, a signal of its growing impact in the cloud space. To support this next phase of growth, it's opening a new hub in Cork, Ireland, creating a bunch of new jobs over three years.This expansions puts AIven in a prime position to scale internationally and bring its managed open-source solutions to more companies.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2022
$210m
SERIES D
Oct 2021
$60m
SERIES C
Total funding: $420m
Company benefits
- Stocks: Stock options for permanent employees
- Learning & growth: Get ahead with an individual learning budget, access to a web learning platform, coaching, and the ever-growing Aiven library.
- Work/life balance: Flexible, regular working hours, and hybrid work friendly.
- Health care: Private health and dental care.
- Work equipment: The tools you need to do your job.
- Cool, collaborative work spaces: with free drinks, treats and fruit.
Company HQ
Kamppi, Helsinki
Leadership
Oskari Saarenmaa
(Co-Founder CEO)Senior Software Engineer and Software Architect for F-Secure Corporation from 2002 to 2011.CEO and Software Architect of Ohmu Ltd. from 2010 to 2016.
Heikki Nousiainen
(Co-Founder & Field-CTO)Experience as Information Security Specialist for TietoEnator. Lead Software Architect for F-Secure Corporation from 2008 to 2015.
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