Senior Data Engineer

MaintainX is the world's leading Asset and Work Intelligence platform for industrial and frontline environments. We are a modern IoT-enabled cloud-based tool for reliability, safety, and operations on physical equipment and facilities. MaintainX powers operational excellence for 13,000 businesses including Duracell, Univar Solutions Inc., Titan America, McDonald's, Brenntag, Cintas, Xylem, and Shell.

We recently completed a $150 million Series D funding round, bringing our total funding to $254 million and valuing the company at $2.5 billion.

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our growing team. You will help build and maintain the data platform that directly powers the MaintainX product and enables internal analytics and BI, while developing platform capabilities and tooling used by engineering teams daily. You will contribute across the data platform, including pipelines (batch, micro-batch, and streaming), deployment, governance, and developer tooling.

What you’ll do:

• Build and evolve the Databricks-based data platform used for product features, machine learning, and internal reporting

• Design and develop reliable and scalable data ingestion and transformation pipelines

• Model raw data into clean, reliable datasets that power both product features and internal analytics

• Build platform abstractions and tooling that improve developer experience for data producers and consumers

• Improve observability, testing, and monitoring to ensure reliability and performance

• Manage and contribute to data governance, security, compliance, and access controls

• Contribute to platform standards and architecture as the data platform scales

• Collaborate with engineering, machine learning, product, and analytics teams to support their data use cases

About you:

• 6+ years of experience as a data engineer in a modern, production-grade cloud data platform (Databricks or similar equivalent)

• Experience operating under ambiguity and making technical tradeoffs that balance velocity and value delivery with maintainability and technical debt

• Strong Python and SQL skills

• Experience with CDC pipelines

• Experience managing cloud infrastructure with Terraform (or similar infrastructure-management equivalent)

• Experience building CI/CD workflows using DABs and GitHub Actions (or similar)

• Experience with event-streaming with Kafka and Flink (or similar data-streaming architectures)

• Experience in query optimization, resource allocation and management, cost management, and data lake performance

• Experience working in a fast-paced, agile environment

Extra consideration for candidates with the following:

• Knowledge of compliance and regulatory frameworks (ex: GDPR, CCPA, SOC2, FedRAMP)

• Backend software development experience, including with application data storage (relational, unstructured, BLOB, etc.) and event-driven architecture

• Experience with building and operating vector databases and RAG

What’s in it for you:

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity opportunities.

• Healthcare, dental, and vision coverage.

• 401(k) / RRSP enrollment program.

• Take what you need PTO.

• A Work Culture where:

• You’ll work alongside folks across the globe that reflect the MaintainX values, Smart Humble Optimist

• We believe in meritocracy, where ideas and effort are publicly celebrated

About us:

Our mission is to make the life of blue-collar workers easier worldwide by creating software that meets their needs and realities. Our product is truly life-changing for 80% of the workforce that doesn’t work behind a desk and needs enterprise-grade software at their fingertips.

MaintainX is committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.