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About the Opportunity\nThis is a hands-on technical leadership role with the opportunity to shape the long-term direction of our data platform.\nYou will lead the design and evolution of the systems that power analytics, product insights, integrations, and machine learning across MoonPay. Working across teams, you’ll solve complex challenges spanning architecture, reliability, scalability, governance, and cost efficiency within a regulated environment.\nWe’re looking for an engineer who can move confidently between setting technical direction and contributing directly to implementation. Your impact will come from evolving and adding new capabilities to our platform, establishing shared engineering patterns, and helping teams make pragmatic decisions that support both immediate delivery and long-term growth.\n\n2. What you will do\nAs a Staff Data Engineer on our Data Platform team, you’ll provide technical leadership across the platform while remaining closely involved in design and delivery.\nDay-to-day, you will:\nSet and evolve the technical direction of our data platform across streaming, batch processing, warehousing, orchestration, governance, and machine learning enablement.\n\nLead the design and delivery of complex, cross-team initiatives from early architectural decisions through to implementation\n\nDesign and build core platform capabilities, from reliable real-time pipelines, shared tooling, reusable frameworks, and scalable data infrastructure for other teams\n\nEstablish and champion golden paths that enable teams to build securely, consistently, and efficiently.\n\nImprove platform reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency as data volumes and use cases grow.\n\nPartner with Security, Compliance, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure our systems meet operational and regulatory requirements.\n\nIdentify systemic risks, reduce unnecessary complexity, and guide pragmatic, incremental improvements to the platform.\n\nStrengthen engineering standards across data modelling, pipeline design, observability, testing, deployment automation, and infrastructure as code.\n\nInfluence technical priorities and planning by working closely with engineering managers, product managers, and senior technical leaders.\n\nMentor senior engineers and raise technical capability through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, and hands-on collaboration.\n\nWhat you will be working with/on\nGCP\n\nPub/Sub and Kafka\n\nApache Beam\n\nBigtable\n\nRedis\n\nKubernetes\n\nAirflow\n\nBigQuery\n\nTerraform\n\nPython and SQL\n\nReal-time and batch processing\n\nData governance, quality, and observability\n\n3. 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