Data Engineer – Governance & Cost Optimization

About the role

Veriff's Data Engineering team owns its analytical data platforms: a Data Warehouse (AWS Redshift, dbt, Airflow, Cube) and a Data Lake (S3, Glue, Athena) across EU and US regions, serving analysts, data scientists, ML and product teams. The team is small and senior, mostly based in Tallinn, and focuses on making identity data easy to use while keeping it secure, compliant and cost-efficient. You will join the team and work closely with senior engineers, with an initial focus on governance across both platforms: access control, handling of personal data, data lifecycle and deletion, and platform cost.

Key responsibilities

• Own projects end-to-end, with support and mentoring from the team.
• In the first 3 months: learn how Veriff works and how data flows from product into the Data Lake and Data Warehouse; become comfortable with the architecture and tooling and ship your first production change; start a project in data governance or cost optimization.
• 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.

Required profile

• Experience building and running production data pipelines.
• Experience working with sensitive or personal data and a security-first mindset.
• Ownership: taking a project from idea to production and communicating clearly along the way.

Required skills

• Strong SQL and Python.
• Hands-on experience with a cloud data platform, ideally AWS (S3, Glue, Athena, Redshift).
• Nice to have: Redshift, Lake Formation or lakehouse/open table formats (Iceberg, Delta, Hudi); dbt and Apache Airflow; GDPR data deletion, data lifecycle or metadata/catalog tools.

What we offer

• Flexibility to work from home.
• Stock options.
• Extra recharge days on top of annual vacation.
• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• Learning and development and health and sports budget.
• Four weeks of fully paid sabbatical leave after the 5th work anniversary.