About the opportunity
As a Staff Data Engineer, you will be responsible for building and optimizing our data infrastructure, ensuring reliable data pipelines, and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams (Product, Data Science, and Engineering). Your expertise will help drive data-driven decision-making across the company, while scaling our systems to meet the growing demands of the business.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL processes to support real-time and batch data processing.
- Collaborate with Data Scientists, Product Managers, and other Engineers to ensure data needs are met for analytics, machine learning, and reporting.
- Design and optimize data storage solutions (data lakes, warehouses, etc.) for performance and scalability.
- Implement best practices in data governance, security, and privacy compliance.
- Lead and mentor a team of data engineers to ensure high-quality data engineering practices.
- Troubleshoot data-related issues and perform root cause analysis to ensure data reliability and accuracy.
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve data architecture and processes for better efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
What you need to be successful
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering, with a focus on building and scaling data infrastructure in large-scale environments.
- Expertise in SQL and NoSQL databases, data modeling, and query optimization.
- Strong proficiency in programming languages like Python, Java, or Scala for data processing.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-based data technologies (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and big data tools (Spark, Hadoop, Kafka).
- Familiarity with data warehousing solutions (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery) and experience designing ETL pipelines.
- Experience with orchestration tools like Airflow, Prefect, or Dagster.
- Strong understanding of data governance, compliance (GDPR, CCPA), and security best practices.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
- Previous e-commerce or product experience is a plus.
Who we are
Hungerstation is the first Saudi Food delivery App in the region! Established in 2012. Today Hungerstation enables you to browse the largest selection of restaurants and supermarkets in KSA that reach 35,000+ options.
In Hungerstation, we stand for our customers' satisfaction, partners’ loyalty and riders’ wellbeing, in addition to our expansion vision - always aiming higher and moving forward to the utmost levels of service platform.
Hungerstation is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s leading local delivery platform operating in 70+ countries worldwide
What's in it for you
- We offer visa & relocation support globally to our permanent employees.
- Exchange ideas and meet 2000+ colleagues from different teams within Delivery Hero in our active guilds and through our global tech & product community
- Develop your skills with your personal educational budget for conferences and external training
- Access our Linkedin learning platform and participate in our various inhouse training
- And much more…
You’ll have the space to learn, grow, and take ownership of your work. We invest in your development, from training or workshops to free language lessons, and we encourage you to take on projects which both interest and challenge you.
