Software Engineer - Data Integration

Amsterdam Engineering – Product Engineering /International Full Time Employee /Hybrid

Samba is a media intelligence company. We know what the world is watching, reading, and thinking about — in real time, at scale, across every screen. Our data exists with the consent of over a billion people, organized into the most complete picture of consumer attention ever built. The biggest brands in the world use that picture to make smarter decisions.

We think it’s the most interesting data asset on the planet, because it’s the most culturally relevant.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Data Integration team in Amsterdam. The Data Integration team builds and operates the platform that moves data into, through, and out of the company: ingestion from clients and partners, processing and enrichment against our identity and signal layers, and distribution to downstream destinations. This is a foundational platform investment, built to scale with the next generation of data partnerships and to power agentic, self-service data workflows.

In this role, you will design, build, and operate meaningful components of the data integration platform, working independently with review at critical points. You bring 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, are comfortable owning features end-to-end, and contribute to technical direction within your scope. You work well in collaborative settings and actively participate in design and code review.

• Design and build reliable data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and distribution of large-scale datasets, making sound architectural decisions within your scope.
• Develop ETL/ELT workflows using distributed computing frameworks on cloud infrastructure, applying engineering judgment to design and implementation decisions within your scope, partnering with senior engineers on broader architecture.
• Build API-first services that expose ingestion, processing, and distribution capabilities to internal teams and external consumers, with attention to reliability, clear contracts, and ease of integration.
• Implement data quality validation, monitoring, and observability for the components you own, ensuring reliability and correctness in production.
• Build reusable platform components with a clear understanding of how they serve downstream consumers.

• Take ownership of components within the data integration platform, ingestion, processing, or distribution, and drive their reliability and iteration.
• Build partner and destination integrations end-to-end, including throughput tuning and operational handoff.
• Apply GDPR, CCPA, and Samba data governance requirements to the systems you build.
• Collaborate with immediate team members and engage with adjacent teams to understand downstream use cases.

• Drive technical design for components within your scope, producing design documents and participating actively in architecture discussions.
• Conduct code reviews and uphold strong standards for code quality, testability, and maintainability across the team.
• Build working relationships with adjacent teams and reason about cross-functional requirements.

• Own the reliability of your components, monitor their health, respond to incidents, and follow through on post-mortem improvements.
• Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to improving operational practices across the team.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and testing coverage for team systems.

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (or 3+ years with a Master's, a PhD with no prior experience, or equivalent), with a meaningful focus on data engineering, backend systems, or distributed data infrastructure.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL; ability to write clean, well-tested, production-ready code.
• Hands-on experience with distributed processing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Databricks, or equivalent) in production.
• Hands-on production…