Samba

Senior Software Engineer - Identity

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6 months ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate large-scale data pipelines for identity-linked data ingestion, transformation, and distribution.
  • Architect ETL/ELT workflows using distributed computing frameworks on cloud infrastructure.
  • Build API-first, platform-grade services that expose Identity capabilities as reusable self-service building blocks.
  • Define observability, data quality validation, monitoring, SLAs, SLOs, and operational metrics for pipelines and services.
  • Drive performance optimization, cloud cost efficiency, reliability, scalability, and reusable platform patterns.
  • Own the technical evolution of probabilistic and deterministic matching, device graph construction, and audience segmentation systems.
  • Architect secure data collaboration, clean room workflows, and privacy-preserving computation while applying privacy-by-design principles.
  • Set technical direction, produce architecture and design documentation, and drive alignment across engineering, product, commercial, data science, and partner stakeholders.
  • Lead code and design reviews, improve testing and deployment practices, and establish shared engineering standards.
  • Mentor engineers and partner with the Engineering Manager on roadmap shaping, technical planning, and systemic risk resolution.
  • Own end-to-end reliability, incident response, post-mortem follow-through, and continuous system health improvements.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep expertise in data engineering, backend systems, or distributed data infrastructure.
  • Proven ability to own technical architecture end-to-end in a complex production data environment.
  • Strong command of Python and SQL, with comfort using JavaScript in full-stack or API contexts.
  • Extensive production experience with distributed processing frameworks such as Spark or Databricks on large-scale datasets.
  • Experience with AWS and/or GCP and their core data services.
  • Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow, dbt, or Prefect.
  • Strong familiarity with data warehousing and lakehouse architectures, including Snowflake.
  • Experience building platform-grade, API-first systems for internal or external downstream consumers.
  • Deep understanding of GDPR and CCPA and practical experience building privacy-compliant systems handling PII at scale.
  • Familiarity with secure data collaboration, data clean rooms, or privacy-preserving computation.
  • Exceptional communication, technical writing, cross-functional collaboration, mentoring, and alignment skills.
  • Preferred: experience in ad tech, identity resolution, data licensing, digital media, device graphs, audience segmentation, or programmatic data flows.
  • Preferred: experience with Kafka, Flink, or Spark Streaming.
  • Preferred: experience incorporating AI and machine learning capabilities into production data workflows.
  • Preferred: track record of cross-team technical leadership through architecture documentation, engineering standards, or mentorship programs.

Benefits

  • Health insurance, wellness offerings, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, paid time off, and other employee benefits.
  • Additional rewards may include bonuses, short-term incentives, and long-term incentives.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkAWSDatabricksdbtGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptPythonSnowflakeSQL

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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About Samba

201-500 employees
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