Senior Data Engineer

Carousell Group


Job Location:

Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 9 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Responsibilities

  • Initiate plan and take full ownership of data engineering projects and pipeline deliverables from design through production with minimal supervision.

  • Design build and optimize high-volume ETL/ELT pipelines across marketplace listings user behavior and transaction data. Leverage AI coding tools (such as Claude Code) as an extended productivity assistant for boilerplate logic and DAG scaffolding while taking full engineering ownership of pipeline accuracy cost and reliability

  • Evaluate and pilot AI-assisted patterns and natural language interfaces to build internal tools platform automations and operational workflowssharing practical findings to elevate technical leverage and execution speed across the team.

  • Own the design of data warehouse and datamart structures including performing basic DBA operations on our cloud data warehouse.

  • Build and maintain streaming/real-time data pipelines to support event-based and low-latency use cases.

  • Lead the architecture and delivery of components of our data warehouse migration including data model restructuring security and governance.

  • Partner with Data Scientists and Analysts to enable personalization pricing intelligence fraud detection and other ML-driven initiatives.

  • Diagnose and resolve complex pipeline failures and performance issues and proactively identify opportunities to improve reliability across our data platform

  • Define and document data processes schemas and workflow automation standards for the team.

  • Champion data security and governance best practices across the pipelines and systems you own.

  • Mentor and support the technical growth of junior and mid-level data engineers including code review and knowledge sharing.

  • Communicate technical designs trade-offs and project status clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.


Qualifications :

Qualifications:

  • 5 years of hands-on experience in Data Engineering or a related field.

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science Data Science Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience).

  • Mastery of SQL Linux shell scripting and proficiency in at least one object-oriented or functional language (Python Java Scala or Golang)

  • Strong command of ETL/ELT concepts and orchestration tools (Apache Airflow) including comfort pairing with AI coding assistants for development test generation and code review able to evaluate AI-generated pipeline code rather than accept it uncritically.

  • Deep experience across relevant data management technologies and cloud services.

  • Proven experience designing and optimizing data warehouses and datamarts including DBA operations entity relationships and normalisations.

  • Hands-on experience with streaming/event-based data pipelines and real-time data processing.

  • Experience working with high-volume high-velocity data from varied and sometimes low-quality sources.

  • Solid data modeling skills across SQL and NoSQL systems.

  • Demonstrated ability to independently initiate scope and deliver projects with minimal guidance.

  • Strong analytical skills attention to detail and excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

 

Good to Haves:

        Applied knowledge of software design principles (e.g. Single Responsibility Principle separation of concerns testability and maintainable pipeline architecture).

        Experience working with marketplace classified or commerce data.

        Experience leading or contributing significantly to data warehouse planning designs or migrations.

        Understanding of A/B testing data segmentations and recommendation systems.

        Working knowledge of machine learning pipelines and MLOps practices.

        Understanding of AI/ML concepts and data pipelines


Additional Information :

Why Join Us

        Take ownership of large-scale data challenges in a fast-growing e-commerce marketplace.

        Directly shape our data warehouse migration and ML enablement roadmap.

        Opportunity to impact millions of users by improving search recommendations and fraud detection.

        Hybrid work flexibility.

        Competitive salary and benefits (health insurance performance bonuses learning budgets).

        Clear path for growth into Staff Engineer / Team Lead tracks with mentorship opportunities within the Data Engineering & Analytics team.

 

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Remote Work :

No


Employment Type :

Full-time

ResponsibilitiesInitiate plan and take full ownership of data engineering projects and pipeline deliverables from design through production with minimal supervision.Design build and optimize high-volume ETL/ELT pipelines across marketplace listings user behavior and transaction data. Leverage AI cod...

About Company

Carousell Group is the leading multi-category platform for secondhand in Greater Southeast Asia on a mission to make secondhand the first choice. Founded in August 2012 in Singapore, the Group has a leading presence in seven markets under the brands Carousell, Carousell Media Group, C ... View more

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