Senior Data Engineer

LinkUp
United States, France
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 3+ yearsSkills: ["Problem-solving","Collaboration","Communication","Ownership","Attention to detail"]

Senior Data Engineer role within a fast-paced startup building AI-powered web search infrastructure. You’ll design, build, and operate large-scale data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and data storage layers across SQL/NoSQL/object stores, collaborating with ML and backend teams to deliver real-time data for ranking and retrieval. You’ll contribute to data architecture discussions and emphasize data quality, observability, and scalable engineering practices.

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LinkUp
LinkUp
10 months ago

Senior Data Engineer

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Job Summary

Senior Data Engineer role within a fast-paced startup building AI-powered web search infrastructure. You’ll design, build, and operate large-scale data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and data storage layers across SQL/NoSQL/object stores, collaborating with ML and backend teams to deliver real-time data for ranking and retrieval. You’ll contribute to data architecture discussions and emphasize data quality, observability, and scalable engineering practices.
Location: United States, France
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and operate large-scale, high-throughput data pipelines powering AI-ready web search
  • •Design and maintain distributed ETL / ELT workflows for web indexing, embeddings, and analytics
  • •Develop and optimize data ingestion and transformation systems across structured and unstructured sources
  • •Manage and scale data storage layers (SQL, NoSQL, and object stores) for performance and reliability
  • •Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to system design for data infrastructure

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Remote Work

Key Requirements

  • •3+ years of experience in data engineering or backend development
  • •Strong understanding of distributed systems, data modeling, and streaming architectures
  • •Experience with data quality, observability, and reliability of data pipelines
  • •Ability to debug complex data pipelines and optimize for latency or throughput
  • •Curiosity about AI infrastructure, indexing systems, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
Experience:3+ yearsAIWeb searchData engineering
Skills:Problem-solvingCollaborationCommunicationOwnershipAttention to detail
Tech Stack:Node.jsNestJSPythonJavaPostgreSQLOpenSearchVespaApache StormKubernetesGitHub ActionsTerraform

Company Brief

LinkUp
Provides an AI-optimized web search API that lets LLMs and AI agents access, search, and interact with web and premium content efficiently and ethically, offering developer APIs and integrations for retrieval-augmented generation and agentic workflows.
Industry: API Platforms
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Early Stage Startup
Funding: Pre Seed
Headquarters: Paris, France
Founded: 2024
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