Senior Data Engineer

Join us in stopping bad bots, for good! Kasada protects millions of online users everyday. Founded to stop automated bot attacks, we believe the internet should be a safe place for everyone. Bad bots are highly destructive. They take over accounts, steal content, overload systems and infrastructure and cause billions of dollars in damages every year. Seeking to restore trust in the internet, Kasada stops bots at the very first request including those that have never been seen before.

We’ve grown from a few friends working out of a shipping container under the Sydney Harbour Bridge to now operating globally, we’re spread across the world protecting some of the most well-known brands on the face of the earth.

We’re an innately curious team that’s not afraid to bring bold ideas to create better ways of solving problems. We’re looking for people who are passionate about solving some of the most difficult and pressing cybersecurity issues, while having fun doing it!

In this role, you will be the architect and engine behind the evolution of our data platform, transitioning it from a traditional ETL-based warehouse into a versatile, high-performance data platform. Your mission is to eliminate the latency bottlenecks of our current system, moving us toward a platform capable of fast query performance for real-time portal metrics, developing models for data science and internal troubleshooting.

You will act as a key partner to our Data Analytics, Customer Facing Portal and Data Science teams, building the data solutions that empower them to extract deeper insights and drive critical business decisions. This is a highly collaborative role; you will work across the organization to understand diverse stakeholder needs and architect the infrastructure and technologies to be used, any ingestion processes, and data applications required to address them. Whether it’s powering a customer-facing dashboard or an internal diagnostic tool, you will ensure our data is accessible, fast, and reliable while championing engineering excellence and shaping our future technical roadmap.

You will operate in a cutting-edge, AWS-native ecosystem designed for performance and massive throughput. We are moving beyond legacy constraints by building a multi-modal platform that treats data as a high-speed product:

You are a seasoned engineer with 5+ years  of professional experience as a Senior Data Engineer building production-grade data systems, with a proven track record of transforming legacy architectures into high-performance, multi-use platforms. You possess:

We don’t expect you to meet every requirement, but we do look for candidates eager to develop in areas where they have less experience.