Senior Data Engineer

Sinch is pioneering the way the world communicates. More than 150,000 businesses — including Google, Uber, Paypal, Visa, Tinder, and many others — rely on Sinch’s Customer Communications Cloud to power engaging customer experiences through mobile messaging, voice, and email.

Whether you need to verify users or craft omnichannel campaigns, Sinch makes it easy. Our AI-infused Super Network, APIs, and applications ensure you can connect with your customers reliably and securely, at every step of their journey.

At Sinch we “Dream Big”, “Win Together”, “Keep it simple”, and “Make it Happen”. These values are our foundation!

DESCRIPTION

Join the Orion Platform team, the engineering group responsible for building and scaling Sinch's new Tier-1, business-critical data platform. The Orion platform is at the heart of our company's data strategy, processing billions of real-time messaging events daily. We are replacing legacy systems to become the single source of truth that not only powers our client-facing dashboards and analytics, but also unlocks the potential for sophisticated automation and future AI implementation.

• Core Pipeline Development: Design and implement the mediation system Orion, using Go (Golang) to process billions of raw usage data events from Kafka into standardized formats for billing and analytics.
• Real-Time Event Processing: Build and maintain our high-performance, near real-time data pipelines, ensuring minimal latency between data ingestion and its availability in our ClickHouse database.
• Data Transformation & Enrichment: Implement complex data transformation rules to normalize, enrich, and aggregate data from multiple sources, preparing it for accurate billing and reporting.
• Automation and Efficiency: Automate mediation processes and workflows within our Kubernetes environment, minimizing manual intervention and improving the efficiency of data flows.
• Data Integrity and Quality: Ensure data quality by implementing checks, building robust monitoring and alerting systems with Prometheus and Grafana, and creating error-handling mechanisms to prevent inconsistencies, duplicates, or data loss within our streaming architecture.
• Collaboration with Stakeholders: Work closely with billing, product, and engineering teams to understand data requirements and ensure that our data pipelines align perfectly with business needs.

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in building and maintaining data processing pipelines in a transaction-heavy environment.
• Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) for developing high-performance data pipelines. (Strong experience in languages like Java or Scala with a desire to learn Go will be considered).
• Hands-on experience with event-driven processing technologies, particularly Apache Kafka.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with high-performance analytical databases; direct experience with ClickHouse is a significant plus.
• Experience working with containerization and orchestration tools, especially Docker and Kubernetes.

Preferred

• Familiarity with billing systems and mediation engines used in industries like telecommunications, messaging, or SaaS.
• Experience with high-throughput data processing and handling massive volumes of transactional data.
• Knowledge of data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR) and their impact on data processing.

Soft Skills

• Effective communication skills for collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a laser focus on data accuracy and integrity.
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and able to prioritize tasks in a fast-paced, agile environment.

Our corporate language is English, please submit your application in English.

At Sinch, we value learning, embrace change, and offer opportunities for personal and professional growth. Unfortunately, we are not supporting relocation at this time.

Applicants must:

• Hold Swedish or EU/EEA citizenship.
• Have a valid Swedish work permit.

OUR HIRING PROCESS

We are committed to ensuring a recruitment process that is fair, objective, consistent, and inclusive. Our approach includes structured, competency-based interviews designed to evaluate your skills, experience, and qualifications relevant to the role. At times, we may include a data-driven assessment to enhance our hiring success and identify candidates likely to excel.

We believe in a two-way process and encourage you to ask questions throughout the journey. If this role isn't what you're looking for, please explore the other opportunities listed on our career page: https://www.sinch.com/careers/. No matter who you are, we hope you find an exciting path forward - hopefully with us!