Data Engineer

About the role

About the team

Data Engineering owns Veriff's analytical data platforms: a Data Warehouse (AWS Redshift, dbt, Airflow, Cube) and a Data Lake (S3, Glue, Athena) running across EU and US regions. We serve analysts, data scientists, ML, and product teams. We are a small, senior team based mostly in Tallinn. Because Veriff handles identity data, our job is to make data easy to use while keeping it secure, compliant, and cost-efficient.

The opportunity

We are moving towards a governed lakehouse that teams can use self-service. You will join our Data Engineering team and work closely with senior engineers. Your initial focus will be governance across both platforms: access control, handling of personal data, data lifecycle and deletion, and platform cost. You will own projects end-to-end, with support and mentoring from the team.

What you'll achieve in your first 3 months

- Learn how Veriff works and how data flows from our product into the Data Lake and Data Warehouse

- Get comfortable with our architecture and tooling, and ship your first changes to production

- Start your first project in data governance or cost optimization

What you'll achieve by 6 months

- Deliver your first project end-to-end

- Help keep Data Warehouse costs flat or lower through query and compute tuning

- Become a go-to person for data governance across the Data Lake and Warehouse

What you'll bring — essential

- Experience building and running production data pipelines

- Strong SQL and Python

- Hands-on experience with a cloud data platform, ideally AWS (S3, Glue/Spark, Athena/Trino, Redshift)

- Experience working with sensitive or personal data, and a security-first mindset

- Ownership: You take a project from idea to production and communicate clearly along the way

Nice to have

- Redshift, Lake Formation, or lakehouse / open table formats (Iceberg, Delta, Hudi)

- dbt and Apache Airflow

- GDPR data deletion, data lifecycle, or metadata/catalog tools

Why Veriff?

We are the preferred identity verification platform partner for the world’s most innovative growth-driven organizations helping conveniently verify and safeguard users anywhere in the world. We support the broadest number of identity documents from nearly every country and territory in the world - and this is continually increasing! With a diverse team in the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, and Estonia, as well as robust backing and funding from investors including Accel, Alkeon, IVP, Tiger Capital, and Y Combinator, we’re dedicated to helping businesses and individuals build a safer and more secure world. We strive to be the benchmark for trust online, and we take pride in being a positive force.When you join Team Veriff, we offer you the opportunity to have a real impact and advance your career whilst looking after you along the way with a range of benefits designed with you in mind. Some of our favourites include...