Data Engineer - Data Platform Team at Proximity Works · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 5 - 10 years · Bootstrapped · Posted 1 Oct 2026

Description
We are looking for Senior Data Engineers to join our Data Platform team and build scalable, high-performance data platforms that power data processing, analytics, and downstream applications.
The ideal candidate will have strong experience in distributed data processing, ETL pipelines, and Big Data technologies, with hands-on expertise in Apache Spark and Python Scala.
You will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing large-scale data pipelines while collaborating closely with cross-functional engineering teams to build reliable, production-grade data solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL and data processing pipelines for large-scale datasets.
- Build and optimize distributed data applications using Apache Spark and Python Scala.
- Develop reliable, high-performance data pipelines for batch and streaming workloads.
- Design and manage data workflows using Apache Airflow.
- Build and operate data workloads on AWS, with strong usage of Amazon S3 for large-scale data storage.
- Work with large datasets to ensure data quality, consistency, reliability, and performance.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, analytics, and other platform teams to deliver robust data solutions.
- Optimize data workflows for scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Troubleshoot production issues, identify bottlenecks, and continuously improve platform performance.
Requirements
Candidates who demonstrate:
- 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Big Data Engineering, or a similar role.
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Spark and Scala.
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale ETL pipelines.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS, particularly Amazon S3.
- Hands-on experience with Apache Airflow for workflow orchestration and scheduling.
- Strong SQL skills and a solid understanding of distributed data processing concepts.
- Experience working with batch and/or streaming data pipelines.
- Excellent debugging, problem-solving, and performance optimization skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Good to Have
- Experience with Databricks and the broader Databricks data platform.
- Familiarity with streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka.
- Experience working on large-scale data platforms handling high-volume data workloads.
- Exposure to additional AWS data services and cloud-native data architectures.

About Proximity Works
About
We are Proximity - a global team of coders, designers, product managers, geeks and experts. We solve hard, long-term engineering problems and build cutting edge tech products.
About us
Born in 2019, Proximity Works is a global, fully distributed tech firm headquartered in San Francisco - with hubs across Mumbai, Dubai, Toronto, Stockholm, and Bengaluru. We’re in the business of solving high-stakes engineering challenges with AI-powered solutions tailored for industries like sports, media & entertainment, fintech, and enterprise platforms. From real-time game analytics and ticketing workflows to creative content generation, we help build software that serves millions every day.
About the Founders
At the helm is Hardik Jagda, CEO - a technologist with a startup DNA who brings clarity to complexity and a passion for building delightful experiences.
Milestones & Impact
- Trusted by some of the world’s biggest players - from major media & entertainment giants to one of the world’s largest cricket websites and the second-largest stock exchange in the world.
- Delivered game-changing tech: slashing content creation by 90%, doubling performance metrics for NASDAQ clients, and accelerating speed/performance wins for platforms like Dream11.
Culture & Why It Matters
- Fully distributed and flexible: work 100% remotely, design your own schedule, build habits that work for you and not the other way around.
- People-first culture: Community events, “Proxonaut battles,” monthly off-sites, and a liberal referral policy keep us connected even when we’re apart.
- High-trust environment: autonomy is encouraged. You’re empowered to act, learn fast, and iterate boldly. We know great work comes when talented people have space to think and create.
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We are looking for Senior Data Engineers to join our AdTech team and build scalable, high-performance data platforms that power advertising insights and analytics. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in distributed data processing, ETL pipelines, and Big Data technologies, with hands-on expertise in Spark and Scala.
You will work on designing, developing, and optimizing large-scale data pipelines while collaborating closely with cross-functional engineering teams to build reliable, production-grade data solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL pipelines for large-scale data processing.
- Build and optimize distributed data applications using Spark and Scala.
- Develop reliable, high-performance data pipelines for batch and streaming workloads.
- Work with large datasets to ensure data quality, consistency, and performance.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and analytics teams to deliver robust data solutions.
- Optimize data workflows for scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Deploy and manage data workloads in cloud and containerized environments.
- Troubleshoot production issues and continuously improve platform performance.
Requirements
Candidates who demonstrate:
- 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering or Big Data Engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Spark and Scala.
- Experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines.
- Familiarity with Google Cloud Storage (GCS).
- Experience with Kubernetes (K8s).
- Strong SQL skills and understanding of distributed data processing.
- Excellent debugging, problem-solving, and performance optimization skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Good to Have
- Experience with AWS and cloud-native data services.
- Familiarity with streaming technologies such as Kafka.
- Experience working on large-scale data platforms or AdTech systems.
- Exposure to orchestration tools such as Airflow.
Benefits
- Best-in-class salary: We hire strong talent and compensate accordingly.
- Proximity Talks: Meet and learn from designers, engineers, product leaders, and AI practitioners.
- Continuous learning: Work with a world-class team and stay close to the latest in AI, engineering, and product development.
- High-impact work: Build AI-first systems and products used at scale by global clients.
About Us
Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world. We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore.
Since 2019, Proximity has built high-impact, scalable products used by millions of users every day. Today, we are a global team of engineers, designers, product managers, and experts solving complex problems and building cutting-edge technology at scale.
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Job Description:
Position: Lead / Senior Data Engineer
Location: Chennai
Shift: US Eastern Time ( 5:00 PM – 2:00 AM )
Experience : 8+ years
Notice Period: Immediate Joiner only
Roles and Responsibilities:
Role Overview
The Lead Data Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high-quality software and data solutions while leading a team of engineers. The role involves hands-on technical work, architectural decision-making, mentoring junior developers, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery of scalable data platforms and analytical solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead the end-to-end design, development, and delivery of software systems, data pipelines, and components.
Define technical strategy, architecture, and best practices for development and data engineering.
Design and build optimized data pipelines using cutting-edge technologies in a cloud environment.
Construct infrastructure for efficient ETL processes from various sources and storage systems.
Architect, design, and maintain database pipeline architectures, ensuring readiness for AI/ML transformations.
Lead the implementation of algorithms and prototypes to transform raw data into useful information.
Review code for quality, scalability, and performance.
Collaborate with Product Managers, Business Managers, Designers, and QA teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
Develop analytical tools, programs, and reporting mechanisms.
Create data validation methods and data analysis tools.
Interpret data trends and patterns to establish operational alerts.
Conduct complex data analysis and present results effectively.
Prepare data for prescriptive and predictive modeling.
Ensure compliance with data governance and security policies.
Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve complex technical issues.
Drive continuous improvement in software and data development processes, tools, and methodologies.
Mentor and guide engineers through code reviews, technical discussions, and training.
Ensure timely delivery of projects while maintaining high engineering standards.
Continuously explore opportunities to enhance data quality and reliability.
Apply strong programming and problem-solving skills to develop scalable solutions.
Demonstrate passion for testing strategy, problem-solving, and continuous learning.
Willingness to acquire new skills and knowledge.
Possess a product/engineering mindset to drive impactful data solutions.
Experience working in distributed environments with global teams.
Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends to propose innovative solutions.
Technical Skills and Experience Requirements
Minimum 8+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, deploying, testing, maintaining, monitoring, and owning scalable, resilient, and distributed data pipelines.
High proficiency in Python, Scala, and Spark for applied large-scale data processing.
Expertise with big data technologies, including Spark, Data Lake, Delta Lake, and Hive.
Solid understanding of batch and streaming data processing techniques.
Proficient knowledge of the Data Lifecycle Management process, including data collection, access, use, storage, transfer, and deletion.
Expert-level ability to write complex, optimized SQL queries across extensive data volumes.
Experience with RDBMS and OLAP databases such as MySQL and Snowflake.
Familiarity with Agile methodologies.
Obsession for service observability, instrumentation, monitoring, and alerting.
Knowledge or experience in architectural best practices for building data lakes.
Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
Responsibilities and JD
Job Description: We are looking for a Senior Developer with strong expertise in PySpark, Databricks, and Snowflake to build scalable data engineering solutions and enterprise data platforms.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines using PySpark, Databricks, and Snowflake.
- Develop batch and real-time data processing solutions for structured and semi-structured data.
- Build and optimize Databricks notebooks, workflows, and Delta Lake solutions.
- Design and implement Snowflake databases, schemas, views, stored procedures, tasks, and streams.
- Develop scalable data models, data marts, and data warehouse solutions.
- Optimize PySpark jobs, Databricks workloads, and Snowflake queries for performance and cost efficiency.
- Implement data quality, validation, governance, and security controls.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, and cross-functional teams to deliver data solutions.
- Manage source control and CI/CD deployments using Git and Azure DevOps.
- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and ensure pipeline reliability.
- Mentor junior team members and participate in code reviews and technical design discussions.
Required Skills: PySpark, Databricks, Snowflake, Python, SQL.
Experience: 5+ years of Data Engineering experience with strong hands-on expertise in PySpark, Databricks, and Snowflake.
Key Responsibilities
Build and maintain data transformation pipelines using java Spark
Develop and optimize large-scale/CPU intensive data processing using Apache Spark
Orchestrate workflows using Airflow
Implement data quality checks, testing, and monitoring for pipeline. Good to have exposer into managing metadata, cataloguing, and lineage
Support schema evolution, backfills, and incremental processing
Ensure pipelines meet SLAs for freshness, reliability, and performance
Expertise/working knowledge in Spark and HBase(semantic layer, virtual datasets, Reflections)
Required Skills & Qualifications
Strong hands-on experience with Apache Spark
Experience with HBase/SQL or similar lakehouse query engines
Airflow
Understanding of data catalogs and lineage (e.g., OpenLineage, DataHub, Apache Polaris , openlineage)
Proficiency in Java
Experience with Git-based development and CI/CD
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Databricks, Python, PySpark, and SQL to build scalable, high-performance data engineering solutions. You’ll architect and develop large scale, high-performance data pipelines capable of handling massive real-time and batch data volumes across multiple business systems. Databricks is the core enterprise data and processing platform for this role. You will also use Apache Airflow for workflow orchestration and dbt for ELT transformations, and will contribute to designing reliable, secure, and governed data platforms that enable analytics, reporting, and AI-driven use cases.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement large-scale data pipelines using Python/PySpark, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric.
- Develop and optimize data processing workloads in Databricks using PySpark and Spark SQL, with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
- Develop and maintain dbt models including layered architecture, incremental models, snapshots, macros, testing, and documentation.
- Design, develop, and maintain Apache Airflow DAGs for orchestrating reliable, scalable, and observable data pipelines.
- Design and implement data quality, observability, and governance frameworks, including automated testing, monitoring, lineage, access control, and data privacy standards.
- Partner with analytics, product, and business stakeholders to turn requirements into trustworthy datasets, and raise the engineering bar through design discussions, code reviews, and mentoring junior engineers.
Required Skills
- Strong expertise in Python for developing scalable, modular, and production-ready data engineering applications.
- Strong expertise in PySpark, including DataFrame API, Spark SQL, Structured Streaming, partitioning strategies, joins, caching, handling data skew, and Spark performance optimization.
- Strong hands-on experience with Databricks for data ingestion, transformation, processing, and optimization, including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Databricks Workflows, notebooks, jobs, and Databricks-native data engineering capabilities.
- Strong experience in Databricks/Spark performance tuning, including query and job optimization, partitioning, file sizing, caching, join optimization, handling data skew, and efficient use of compute resources.
- Hands-on experience with Delta Lake, including transactional data processing, schema management, incremental data processing, and reliable batch and streaming data pipelines.
- Hands-on experience in developing dbt projects using layered architecture, incremental models, snapshots, macros/Jinja, testing, documentation, and deployment best practices.
- Expertise in advanced SQL and data modelling — dimensional modeling, slowly changing dimensions, schema evolution, and query optimization.
- Hands-on experience in developing and managing Apache Airflow DAGs, scheduling workflows, dependency management, retries, backfills, and operational monitoring.
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP).
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently with business and analytics stakeholders.
Nice to Have
- Hands-on exposure to Microsoft Fabric for data integration and analytics.
- Experience using AI coding assistants (e.g. Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) as part of a development workflow.
- Familiarity with modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
- Domain expertise in financial services.
Data Engineer Short Hiring Post
🚨 Hiring: Data Engineer
🔹 Experience: 5–9 Years
🔹 Location: Bangalore / Hyderabad
🔹 Skills: PySpark, Python, SQL, ETL, CI/CD, Data Modeling
🔹 Process: L1 Virtual → L2 F2F Karat Test
🔹 F2F: Bangalore / Hyderabad Location
🔹 Positions: Immediate requirement
⚠️ Note: Candidates must be available for F2F Karat immediately after L1.
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1st virtual , 2nd round F2F
Python pyspark, SQL, data engineer
5+yrs
Bang/hyderabad
immediate to 15days.
🚨 WE ARE HIRING – SENIOR DATA ENGINEER | BANGALORE 🚨
Looking for experienced Senior Data Engineers with strong expertise in PySpark, Oracle SQL/PLSQL, and Data Modeling!
🔹 Role: Senior Data Engineer
🔹 Experience: 7+ Years
🔹 Location: Bangalore
🔹 CTC: Up to 26 LPA
🔹 Notice Period: Immediate to 10 Days Preferred
💻 Mandatory Skills
✅ PySpark
✅ Oracle SQL / PL/SQL
✅ Data Modeling & Design / Modernization
✅ Python
✅ ETL
✅ Data Pipelines
⚙️ Good to Have / Ecosystem Skills
✅ Kafka
✅ Hadoop
✅ AWS / Azure / GCP
✅ Git
✅ JIRA
📌 Key Responsibilities
• Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines using PySpark
• Work extensively with Oracle SQL/PLSQL for data processing and transformation
• Design and implement data models and data architecture
• Work on data design and modernization initiatives
• Develop and optimize ETL processes and data pipelines
• Handle large volumes of data using PySpark and Python
• Work with technologies such as Kafka, Hadoop, and Cloud platforms
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable data solutions
• Use Git and JIRA for version control and project tracking
📩 Interested candidates can share their updated CV along with:
Total Experience:
Relevant PySpark Experience:
Relevant Oracle SQL/PLSQL Experience:
Data Modeling Experience:
Current Location:
Notice Period:
Current CTC:
Expected CTC:
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Company Name – Wissen Technology
Group of companies in India – Wissen Technology & Wissen Infotech
Work Location – Whitefield, Bangalore
Website and Company profile:
www.wissen.com
LinkedIn Page:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/wissen-technology/
While you may already know about Wissen and the company history, here is a quick rundown for you.
About Wissen Technology:
· The Wissen Group was founded in the year 2000. Wissen Technology, a part of Wissen Group, was established in the year 2015.
· Wissen Technology is a specialized technology company that delivers high-end consulting for organizations in the Banking & Finance, Telecom, and Healthcare domains. We help clients build world class products.
· Our workforce has highly skilled professionals, with leadership and senior management executives who have graduated from Ivy League Universities like Wharton, MIT, IITs, IIMs, and NITs and with rich work experience in some of the biggest companies in the world.
· Wissen Technology has grown its revenues by 400% in these five years without any external funding or investments.
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About Role :
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain data transformation pipelines using java Spark
- Develop and optimize large-scale/CPU intensive data processing using Apache Spark
- Orchestrate workflows using Airflow
- Implement data quality checks, testing, and monitoring for pipeline. Good to have exposer into managing metadata, cataloguing, and lineage
- Support schema evolution, backfills, and incremental processing
- Ensure pipelines meet SLAs for freshness, reliability, and performance
- Expertise/working knowledge in Spark and HBase(semantic layer, virtual datasets, Reflections)
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Strong hands-on experience with
- HBase
- Apache Spark
- Experience with HBase or similar lakehouse query engines
- Airflow
- Understanding of data catalogs and lineage (e.g., OpenLineage, DataHub, Apache Polaris , openlineage)
- Proficiency in Java
- Experience with Git-based development and CI/CD
Nice-to-Have Skills
- OpenTable format/Iceberg ,Apache Arrow
- CDC-based analytics pipelines
- Cloud platforms (AWS)
- Kubernetes-based data platforms
Data Engineer Hiring Post
🚨 Hiring: Data Engineer | PySpark + Python + SQL
We are looking for experienced Data Engineers to join our team!
🔹 Experience: 5 to 9 Years
🔹 Locations: Bangalore / Hyderabad
🔹 Interview Process:
• 1st Round – Virtual
• 2nd Round – Face-to-Face (Karat Test)
🔑 Key Skills:
✅ PySpark
✅ SQL
✅ Python
✅ ETL
📩 Interested candidates can share their updated resume.
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