Senior Data Engineer

workfromhome, gauteng, South-Africa • Posted June 03, 2026

Job Type: Full-time
Location: workfromhome, gauteng
Posted: June 03, 2026
Category: Database, Analytics & BI
Application Deadline: July 13, 2026

Role Description

Overview

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You’ll take ownership of our analytics data layer and work closely with our Platform and ML squads. Your job is to build a fast, clean, and reliable system that integrates backend data from an event-sourced architecture, external services, and JSON-based event logs—then serves performant, well-modelled views to analysts, ML pipelines, dashboards, and the product frontend.

Responsibilities

  • Designing a real-time ingestion pipeline for event-sourced data streams and JSON logs on S3 for low-latency performance.
  • Defining a clear semantic model and restructuring existing views into a maintainable, well-layered architecture.
  • Ensuring a reasonable compute budget and building structured views that can be safely used across analytics, reporting, and application layers.
  • Cleaning up pipeline logic to reduce latency, improve readability, and lower ...

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