Senior Data Engineer, Event Data

Location: Toronto, Canada (Remote)

Salary: CAD 145,000–185,000 base pay annually, with a possible additional bonus and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops content personalization solutions for marketers using data-activated content generation and AI decisioning.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain event streaming pipelines ingesting data from client systems, internal services, and third-party sources.
• Develop analytical databases and data models optimized for high-volume queries and low-latency access.
• Build production Elixir and Python services for event processing, transformation, and routing.
• Integrate legacy event pipelines with modern streaming infrastructure and design low-risk migration paths.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, observability, SLA tracking, and data quality standards.
• Collaborate with data platform, product engineering, analytics, and data-producing teams on reliable event data products.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in data engineering or backend/systems engineering, focused on event-driven and streaming systems.
• Strong Elixir and/or Python skills for application connectors, data services, and pipeline components.
• Advanced SQL skills and production experience with columnar or OLAP databases.
• Experience with stream processing frameworks or message brokers such as Apache Flink, Kafka, Pulsar, or Kinesis.
• Experience operating data systems on AWS, production data pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code tools, and system migrations.
• Ability to lead design discussions, write technical specifications, and collaborate across teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with Flink, Databricks, GCP, or retail event data such as clickstream, purchase, and product interaction events.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, financial, and other benefits are provided.
• Work on a newly formed team shaping a critical event data domain.
• Collaborate with teams across a global organization serving clients in multiple regions.
• Inclusive workplace committed to equal opportunity and diverse perspectives.