Data Engineer

We are a fast-growing Series A startup building cutting‑edge technology to revolutionize cloud development processes and support highly efficient dev‑test feedback loops. We’ve closed our last $25mil round in Q4 2024, led by Notable Capital, CRV and Heavybit.

At its core, Local Stack provides a high‑fidelity emulator and local cloud development platform. Imagine developing cloud applications and data pipelines entirely on your local machine within a lightweight cloud sandbox, running in Docker!

Our mission is to empower developers to rapidly build and test their cloud applications, allowing for a more enjoyable dev experience, and saving valuable time and resources.

Local Stack has a large and active open‑source community (57k+ stars on Git Hub) with over 100k active users worldwide and 290M+ downloads to date. Our customer base ranges from SMBs to Global Fortune 500 companies.

We are sustainably growing our globally distributed team across sectors.

Local Stack is headquartered in Zurich / Switzerland 🇨🇭, with a main engineering office in Vienna / Austria 🇦🇹and remote team members from 🇺🇸the US, 🇫🇷FR, 🇬🇧UK, 🇨🇦CA, 🇪🇸ES, and many more countries.

👉Check our Notion Candidate Handbook and our Git Hub!

This is the right opportunity for a person who wants to help create a coherent, scalable and reliable data platform, driving implementation of the strategic roadmap and representing the data team to the whole organization at the technical level.

Requirements

• Create and drive adoption of a coherent, scalable data platform architecture that supports high‑volume events, relational analytics, and user‑persona‑aligned design.
• Introduce and champion modelling, lineage, quality, and operational practices that make data reliable, observable, and easy for different personas to use, resulting in fewer incidents and clearer cost transparency.
• Establish and evolve operational reliability patterns: SLOs, debugging flows, efficiency improvements, that measurably increase resilience and reduce operational load.
• Increase self‑serve adoption and reduce onboarding time and dependence on the platform team by shaping platform interfaces, semantics, and user experiences.
• Define the process for build / buy decisions, designing effective tooling stack, communicating and defending these decisions to the relevant stakeholders.
• Work collaboratively together with other stakeholders outside of the data team to influence decision making and overall roadmap.
• Driving implementation of the data strategy, aligning teams on technical roadmap: decisions are understood, trade‑offs are accepted, and ambiguity is reduced through clear communication and narrative.
• Define processes how the data team collaborates with other teams in Local Stack, reducing cross‑team friction.

• Proficient in Python, SQL, and AWS data services (S3, Glue, EMR, ECS, Lambda).
• Experience designing hybrid data platforms (streaming, batch, warehouse / lakehouse).
• Strong data modelling skills, including semantics, lineage, cataloguing, and metadata management.
• Familiar with orchestration patterns and full data lifecycle design.
• Experience with BI and orchestration tools supporting analytics and platform workflows.
• Experience of leading architectural decisions across modelling and ingestion.
• Experience mentoring data engineers, levelling up the technical capabilities in the team.
• Experience in working remotely / in async settings (preferred).

• Care: we create with compassion. We prioritize empathy and understanding in every interaction. By genuinely caring for our team, customers, and community, we create an environment where people thrive and impactful work flourishes.
• Ownership: we own the outcome. We take responsibility for our work and are passionate about its impact. We foster autonomy, inspire ambition, encourage ownership, and empower everyone to unlock their potential and make an impact.
• Openness: we build trust together. We build trust through open communication and honest feedback. By sharing ideas and embracing diverse perspectives, we create stronger, more…