MoonPay

Staff Data Engineer

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22 days ago
London, United Kingdom or New York, NY, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$260k - $274k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Set and evolve the technical direction of the data platform across streaming, batch processing, warehousing, orchestration, governance, and machine learning enablement.
  • Lead complex cross-team initiatives from architectural decisions through implementation.
  • Design and build real-time pipelines, shared tooling, reusable frameworks, and scalable data infrastructure.
  • Establish engineering patterns and golden paths that improve security, consistency, and delivery efficiency.
  • Improve platform reliability, scalability, performance, observability, and cost efficiency.
  • Partner with Security, Compliance, Product, and Engineering teams on operational and regulatory requirements.
  • Strengthen standards for data modeling, pipeline design, testing, deployment automation, and infrastructure as code.
  • Influence technical planning and priorities with engineering managers, product managers, and senior technical leaders.
  • Mentor senior engineers through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, and hands-on collaboration.

Requirements

  • Significant experience designing and evolving large-scale data platforms and distributed or stream-processing systems.
  • Deep knowledge of real-time and event-driven architectures using technologies such as Kafka or Pub/Sub.
  • Track record of leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams or domains.
  • Experience building platform capabilities, shared services, and reusable engineering patterns.
  • Strong judgment across reliability, scalability, performance, governance, security, and cost management.
  • Ability to move between high-level architecture and hands-on implementation.
  • Experience influencing engineers and stakeholders on shared standards and long-term priorities.
  • Experience mentoring experienced engineers and raising technical capability.
  • Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience working in a regulated environment or designing systems with strong compliance and auditability requirements.
  • Experience with the listed technology stack is helpful, but architectural judgment, systems thinking, and technical leadership are prioritized over expertise in any single tool.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary package and equity ownership.
  • Pay-for-performance equity bonus and Moonshot award opportunities.
  • Employer pension contributions from day one.
  • Flexible time off, birthday leave, and enhanced parental leave.
  • Fully remote or hybrid working from a nearby Moonbase.
  • Commuter benefits, private healthcare, Wellhub wellness membership, and lunch credit on office days.
  • Home office setup allowance and remote working allowance.
  • Unlimited enterprise access to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and other AI tools.
  • Monthly product budget and zero-fee crypto transactions.
  • $1,000 annual training budget, structured development opportunities, mentorship, and stretch assignments.
  • Regular remote company offsites, hackathons, and location-specific cycle-to-work or EV salary-sacrifice programs.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache BeamApache KafkaGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPythonRedisSQLTerraform

Categories

Data Engineering
MoonPay

About MoonPay

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