Senior Data Engineer (India)

We're Karat, the talent elevation partner for the Human + AI Era.

Karat helps technical leaders transform their workforce for the Human+AI era. Trusted by some of the world's largest payment companies, tier 1 banks, and global tech enterprises, Karat evaluates and benchmarks engineering talent rigorously, consistently, and at scale. Our system turns those evaluations into insights that help leaders build a more capable and competitive workforce. Karat interviews combine best-in-class methodologies with live, AI-native scenarios, delivered by experienced Interview Engineers. With intelligence from more than 600,000 technical evaluations, Karat gives leaders a clear view of workforce capability, a competitive benchmark, and confidence that their standards are being met.

Come join our Engineering team

Our Engineering team builds the infrastructure, reporting, and data products that turn Karat’s unique interview and performance data into meaningful insights. We partner across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and the business to create a reliable data foundation and to improve how Karat understands, uses, and delivers data.

What you will do

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will design and build the systems that make high-quality data available across the company. You will be a hands-on technical leader who can turn ambiguous business and product questions into durable data models, reliable pipelines, and actionable information.

This position requires a schedule that overlaps with U.S. business hours.

• Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain scalable cloud-based data pipelines that ingest and transform data from product, operational, and third-party systems.

• Own data-pipeline architecture, including orchestration, monitoring, reliability, performance, and data quality.

• Develop workflows, transformations, and data models that transform raw data into useful, trusted, and actionable information.

• Improve data quality through validation, observability, monitoring, and clear ownership of critical datasets.

• Help manage and improve our existing data stack, including PostgreSQL and Redshift databases, Airflow for orchestration, and Terraform for infrastructure management.

• Help strengthen data literacy across technical and non-technical teams through clear communication and thoughtful partnership.

The experience you will bring

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, machine learning, or related technical roles

• Strong experience building, operating, and improving production data pipelines

• Expertise with relational and columnar databases, including advanced SQL and dimensional data modeling principles such as fact and dimension tables

• Proficiency with Python, Docker, and workflow-orchestration frameworks such as Apache Airflow

• Hands-on experience with AWS or comparable cloud platforms

• Strong grounding in software-engineering practices, including version control, code review, testing, observability, and documentation

• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, including the ability to collaborate effectively with globally distributed teams

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This position is only available to candidates residing in Bengaluru (formerly known as Bangalore). While our team operates 100% remotely, we are currently limiting hiring to this specific location. We will not consider applications from other cities in India at this time.

Applicants, please note: we will not consider submissions that are not 100% in English.

Additional Information

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Statement of Inclusivity

In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Karat.

We value a diverse workforce: people of color, womxn, and LGBTQIA+ individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know at accommodation@karat.com .