Data Engineer

Description

Data Engineering owns Veriff's analytical data platforms: a Data Warehouse (AWS Redshift, dbt, Airflow, Cube) and a Data Lake (S3, Glue, Athena) running across EU and US regions. We serve analysts, data scientists, ML, and product teams. We are a small, senior team based mostly in Tallinn. Because Veriff handles identity data, our job is to make data easy to use while keeping it secure, compliant, and cost-efficient.

The opportunity

We are moving towards a governed lakehouse that teams can use self-service. You will join our Data Engineering team and work closely with senior engineers. Your initial focus will be governance across both platforms: access control, handling of personal data, data lifecycle and deletion, and platform cost. You will own projects end-to-end, with support and mentoring from the team.

What you'll achieve in your first 3 months

Learn how Veriff works and how data flows from our product into the Data Lake and Data Warehouse

Get comfortable with our architecture and tooling, and ship your first changes to production

Start your first project in data governance or cost optimization

What you'll achieve by 6 months

Deliver your first project end-to-end

Help keep Data Warehouse costs flat or lower through query and compute tuning

Become a go-to person for data governance across the Data Lake and Warehouse

What you'll bring — essential

Experience building and running production data pipelines

Strong SQL and Python

Hands-on experience with a cloud data platform, ideally AWS (S3, Glue/Spark, Athena/Trino, Redshift)

Experience working with sensitive or personal data, and a security-first mindset

Ownership: You take a project from idea to production and communicate clearly along the way

Requirements

• Redshift, Lake Formation, or lakehouse / open table formats (Iceberg, Delta, Hudi)
• dbt and Apache Airflow
• GDPR data deletion, data lifecycle, or metadata/catalog tools
• Why Veriff?
• We are the preferred identity verification platform partner for the world’s most innovative growth-driven organizations helping conveniently verify and safeguard users anywhere in the world. We support the broadest number of identity documents from nearly every country and territory in the world - and this is continually increasing! With a diverse team in the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, and Estonia, as well as robust backing and funding from investors including Accel, Alkeon, IVP, Tiger Capital, and Y Combinator, we’re dedicated to helping businesses and individuals build a safer and more secure world. We strive to be the benchmark for trust online, and we take pride in being a positive force.When you join Team Veriff, we offer you the opportunity to have a real impact and advance your career whilst looking after you along the way with a range of benefits designed with you in mind. Some of our favourites include...
• Flexibility to work from home
• Stock options that ensure your share in our success
• Extra recharge days on top of your annual vacation
• Extensive medical, dental, and vision insurance to ensure you’re feeling great physically and mentally
• Learning and Development & Health and Sports budget that you are free to tailor to your own needs
• Four weeks of fully paid sabbatical leave after reaching your 5th work anniversary
• We are an Equal Opportunities employer committed to a diverse and representative team. Different opinions, perspectives, and personalities push us forward. We want to hear from people who are passionate about their work and align with our values. Regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability. We also know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates - so rest assured, whoever you are, we want to hear from you!