Senior Data Platform Engineer (SingleStore/PostgreSQL)

Location: London, England, United Kingdom; other location: New York, New York, United States

Company

hirify.global is a global multi-manager hedge fund using proprietary technology, infrastructure, risk analytics, and internal and external portfolio manager teams across Quant, Tactical, Fundamental Equity, and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income strategies.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and optimize SingleStore and PostgreSQL schemas, SQL queries, physical data models, indexes, and workloads.
• Build and maintain batch, streaming, and CDC ingestion pipelines from relational databases, object storage, and other enterprise sources into SingleStore, including validation, transformation, enrichment, and data curation.
• Lead technical assessments and migrations of applications and data workloads to SingleStore while onboarding teams, applications, and services.
• Build reusable self-service onboarding capabilities with APIs, configuration templates, automated provisioning, access requests, pipeline deployment, and operational guardrails.
• Optimize cloud database spend through right-sizing, consolidation, scheduling, performance tuning, and transparent cluster-, application-, and team-level cost allocation and showback.
• Own production readiness and database reliability, including monitoring, incident triage, root-cause analysis, recoverability, deployment controls, data governance integration, CI/CD, testing, documentation, and cross-region handoffs.

Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in data platform engineering, database engineering, or closely related production data roles.
• Advanced SQL and PostgreSQL expertise, including query plans, schema design, performance tuning, and operational troubleshooting.
• Strong Python skills and practical experience developing production-grade ingestion and transformation pipelines with testing and observability.
• Experience with distributed or cloud-managed databases and modern data integration patterns, including batch and CDC.
• Familiarity with cloud object storage as an ingestion and staging layer.
• Ability to own end-to-end technical delivery, collaborate with application teams, and solve complex production issues independently.

Nice to have

• Hands-on SingleStore, formerly MemSQL, or SingleStore Helios experience, including pipelines, performance tuning, and workload design.
• Kafka or similar streaming platforms, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and API-driven platform automation.
• Experience building self-service data platforms, data quality frameworks, metadata or catalog integrations, and chargeback or showback reporting.
• Experience with cloud FinOps, database migrations, or financial-services enterprise data.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, teamwork-oriented environment where ideas are encouraged at all levels.
• Learning and educational offerings with opportunities to innovate and make an impact.
• Internal networks, external partnerships, and service initiatives supporting inclusion and community.