Senior Data Engineer

Ghent OfficeFull-time2026-10-26 → 2026-11-10

Hybrid

Core

Design, develop, scale, and maintain large-scale data ingestion and transformation pipelines handling 100 TB/day of hotel data to power real-time intelligence and BI products.

Role type

Senior IC data engineer (data platform)

Builds

Scalable data pipelines, data products, and modern data architectures

Domain

Hospitality industry + cloud data engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, dbt, Airflow, GCP (BigQuery, Spanner, Pub/Sub), Kubernetes, AI-assisted coding, data pipeline architecture, observability, automated testing

Preferred skills

Hospitality data domain knowledge

Technologies

Python, dbt, Airflow, GCP, BigQuery, Spanner, Pub/Sub, Kubernetes, Claude

Responsibilities

Design and deploy scalable data pipelines from APIs, webhooks, and cloud storage; implement complex domain modeling and transformation logic; transition legacy processes to modern architectures; troubleshoot live integrations and resolve complex technical issues; improve pipeline reliability through observability and automation; collaborate with product, engineering, support, and business teams.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

About Lighthouse

Lighthouse is not only a data-driven company, we are a data company. The heart of all our products is data. It enables hotels to make the right decisions and fuel our analytical solutions. Being a growth company enables us to regularly attract new and interesting datasets, which can unlock new product directions. Today we process billions of data points and +100TB of data on a daily basis, containing hotels' pricing information, search data, hotel bookings, etc. All of that using modern technologies.