Moonpay

Staff Data Engineer

Job Description

About the Opportunity ✍️ 

This is a hands-on Staff Engineer role focused on evolving and scaling our data platform as the company grows.

You’ll work on the systems that power analytics, product insights, integrations, and data science — helping ensure they are reliable, secure, and built to last in a regulated environment.

We’re looking for someone who enjoys solving complex systems problems end-to-end: from shaping architecture and making pragmatic design trade-offs, to contributing directly to code. Your impact will come from improving how our platform works today while helping teams make better long-term technical decisions.

This role is about influence and execution — leading through strong engineering judgment, collaboration, and hands-on contribution.



What You’ll Own
  • Technical Direction:
  • Contribute to the evolution of our data platform across streaming, batch, warehousing, governance, and data science enablement
  • Help define and champion architectural principles that allow teams to build safely, consistently, and independently
  • Work closely with compliance and security and a range of teams to design systems that meet reliability and regulatory requirements
  • Identify long-term technical risks and guide pragmatic, incremental improvements

  • Reliability, Scale & Performance:
  • Improve the reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of our data platform as usage grows
  • Evolve our streaming and warehouse infrastructure to support increasing real-time and batch workloads
  • Strengthen observability, deployment automation, and cost governance across the data stack
  • Reduce systemic complexity and eliminate fragile or redundant patterns

  • Technical Leadership & Collaboration:
  • Provide technical direction within the data platform domain through design reviews, mentoring, and hands-on contribution
  • Influence adoption of shared services and common patterns through strong engineering practices and collaboration
  • Partner with engineering managers and product managers to inform quarterly planning and longer-term technical priorities
  • Support teams in making sound trade-offs between speed, quality, and long-term maintainability

  • Engineering Quality & Craft:
  • Mentor senior engineers and help grow technical depth across the organization
  • Improve standards around data modeling, pipeline design, observability, and infrastructure as code
  • Encourage thoughtful design documentation and clear decision-making
  • Introduce pragmatic improvements to engineering workflows where they meaningfully increase productivity or quality


    • About You
  • Experience contributing to the architecture of a broad data platform
  • Strong understanding of distributed and event-driven systems, along with modern data warehousing approaches
  • A track record of aligning engineers and stakeholders around shared technical standards and great developer experience
  • Experience designing for reliability, cost management, governance, and compliance at scale
  • The ability to move between high-level architectural decisions and hands-on implementation
  • Familiarity with working in regulated environments

    • You’re a systems thinker who has helped build and scale data platforms used by multiple teams. You’re comfortable operating across architecture, hands-on delivery, and cross-team influence.

    Experience with tools such as Kafka or Pub/Sub, Airflow, Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, and SQL is helpful — but strong architectural judgment and systems thinking matter more than any specific technology.

    What you will be working with/on…
  • Cloud-native infrastructure (we use GCP)
  • Event streaming systems
  • Real-time and batch processing
  • Shared data tooling and reusable frameworks
  • Observability and operational maturity
  • Governance and data quality systems supporting compliance and auditability
  • Infrastructure powering analytics, system integrations, data science, and ML workloads

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