Senior Data Engineer

USRemoteFull-time2026-11-04 → 2026-11-10

Remote

Core

Build, operate, and improve data synchronization pipelines to capture, process, and deliver market-level data to Snowflake for analytics and business intelligence.

Role type

Senior hands-on IC data engineer

Builds

Data synchronization pipelines, data infrastructure on AWS

Domain

Fintech, emerging markets, data engineering

Required skills

AWS (DMS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Iceberg), Snowflake, data pipeline development, SLO monitoring, root cause analysis, performance optimization, scalability design, reliability engineering, deployment practices, testing

Technologies

AWS DMS, Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming, Apache Iceberg, Amazon S3, Snowflake

Responsibilities

Own data synchronization pipelines, ensure data accuracy and availability, improve pipeline performance and cost efficiency, establish and monitor SLOs, strengthen testing and deployment practices, lead root cause analysis

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

About Tala

Tala is AI-native credit infrastructure for the global majority, combining proprietary risk intelligence with an expanding network of capital and distribution partners to power credit access at scale. Backed by more than $500 million in funding, Tala has distributed more than $7 billion in capital to more than 13 million customers across Africa, Latin America, and Asia—building one of the most robust datasets on thin-file borrowers anywhere in the world. Our mission is simple yet bold: to unleash the economic power of the global majority. We are looking for daring, data-driven leaders passiona