Integrate legacy event pipelines with modern streaming infrastructure, designing migration paths that minimize risk and disruption to downstream consumers
Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling for event data systems, ensuring pipeline health, data freshness, and SLA compliance
Define and enforce event schemas, data contracts, and quality standards in partnership with producing and consuming teams
Collaborate with the data platform, product engineering, and analytics teams to understand data needs and deliver reliable event data products
Participate in system design reviews and help establish best practices for the Events Data team
Qualifications
6+ years of professional experience in data engineering or backend/systems engineering, with significant focus on event-driven and streaming data systems
Strong proficiency in Elixir and/or Python as a primary programming language for building application connectors, data services and pipeline components
Advanced SQL skills for data modeling, query optimization, and analytical workloads
Hands-on experience with columnar/OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) databases at production scale
Experience with stream processing frameworks and message brokers such as Apache Flink, Kafka, Pulsar, or Kinesis; Flink experience is a strong plus
Demonstrated ability to integrate and migrate systems, bridging legacy and modern architectures
Proven track record of operationalizing data pipelines, including building monitoring, alerting, SLA dashboards, and runbooks for production systems
Experience designing and operating data systems on AWS; GCP experience is a plus
Strong collaboration and communication skills, comfortable leading design discussions, writing technical specs, and working across team boundaries
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar
Experience with retail events data such as clickstream, purchase events, or product interaction data is a plus
Experience with Databricks, Flink and message brokers such as Kafka, Pulsar, or Kinesis is a plus
The base pay range for this position is $145k CAD - $185k CAD, which can include additional bonus depending on the position ultimately offered, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. The base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Studies have shown that women, communities of color, and historically underrepresented people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture where all Inkers can thrive. If you’re excited about the role but don’t meet all of the abovementioned qualifications, we encourage you to apply. Our differences bring a breadth of knowledge and perspectives that makes us collectively stronger.
We welcome and employ people regardless of race, color, gender identity or expression, religion, genetic information, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ethnicity, family or marital status, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, disability, Veteran status, or other protected characteristics. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
