Senior Data Engineer

Carousell Group
Kuala Lumpur
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Ownership","Analytical skills","Attention to detail","Communication","Stakeholder management"]

Own end-to-end data engineering projects—from pipeline design to production—covering high-volume ETL/ELT for marketplace, user behavior, and transactions. Build and optimize data warehouse/datamart structures, streaming real-time pipelines, and components of a data warehouse migration with security and governance. Partner with Data Scientists and Analysts to enable personalization, pricing, and fraud detection. Troubleshoot reliability and mentor engineers while advancing AI-assisted development workflows.

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Carousell Group
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Senior Data Engineer

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end data engineering projects—from pipeline design to production—covering high-volume ETL/ELT for marketplace, user behavior, and transactions. Build and optimize data warehouse/datamart structures, streaming real-time pipelines, and components of a data warehouse migration with security and governance. Partner with Data Scientists and Analysts to enable personalization, pricing, and fraud detection. Troubleshoot reliability and mentor engineers while advancing AI-assisted development workflows.
Location: Kuala Lumpur
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Initiate, plan, and independently deliver data engineering projects and pipeline deliverables from design through production.
  • •Design, build, and optimize high-volume ETL/ELT pipelines for marketplace listings, user behavior, and transaction data.
  • •Build and maintain streaming/real-time pipelines for event-based, low-latency use cases.
  • •Own data warehouse and datamart design, including DBA operations and architecture for data warehouse migration with security and governance.
  • •Diagnose and resolve pipeline failures and performance issues, and mentor junior/mid-level data engineers.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceAnnual BonusLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of hands-on data engineering experience or related field.
  • •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • •Mastery of SQL and Linux shell scripting, plus proficiency in at least one language: Python, Java, Scala, or Golang.
  • •Strong ETL/ELT concepts and orchestration tools (Apache Airflow), including evaluating AI-generated pipeline code critically.
  • •Proven experience designing and optimizing data warehouses and datamarts, including DBA operations and solid data modeling across SQL and NoSQL.
Experience:5+ yearsData engineeringE-commerceMarketplace
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field
Skills:OwnershipAnalytical skillsAttention to detailCommunicationStakeholder management
Languages:English
Tech Stack:SQLLinux shell scriptingPythonJavaScalaGolangETLELTApache AirflowClaude CodeData warehouseDatamartStreaming pipelinesReal-time data processingNoSQLA/B testingMachine learningMLOps

Company Brief

Carousell Group
Carousell Group operates a classifieds and C2C marketplace across Southeast Asia, enabling users to buy and sell pre-loved items and providing associated services like listings, payments and buyer protection.
Industry: Online Marketplaces
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Headquarters: Singapore, Singapore
Founded: 2012
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