Senior Data Engineer I

Company DescriptionAre you ready to trade your job for a journey? Become a FlyMatePassion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. At Flywire, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage
- the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease
- no matter where they are in the world.
What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is youWho we are:Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, founded a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments in education, using modern technology.
Today, we’ve digitized payments for more than 3,300+ global clients across education, healthcare, travel & B2B, covering more than 240 countries and territories and supporting over 140 currencies. And, we’re just getting startedWith over 1000+ global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 14 offices world-wide, we’re looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.

Job Description
The Opportunity: Data Infrastructure, SRE & AI FoundationsFlywire is seeking a Senior Data Engineer I specialized in SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) and AI Infrastructure. In this high-impact role, you will not just build data pipelines; you will architect and guarantee the reliability, observability, and scalability of the platforms that power our high-stakes payment intelligence and Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning strategy. You will treat "Data as a Product" and Infrastructure as Code, serving as the engineering backbone for our Data Science and Analytics teams, reporting into the team led by our Hiring Manager, Roberto.

Key Responsibilities
Data SRE & Platform Reliability: Define, monitor, and enforce SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for critical data platforms. Architect automated self-healing systems and advanced alerting frameworks to minimize MTTR and pipeline downtime.
AI & Data Platform Agent Integration: Design and maintain the infrastructure, feature stores, and scalable API/data pipelines required to enable advanced AI Agents to securely access, query, and interact with the data platform and its various features.
Cloud Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Lead the design and deployment of global data infrastructure using Terraform (GCP/AWS) to ensure highly reproducible, secure, and version-controlled environments.
Advanced CI/CD Automation: Architect robust GitLab CI automation for data workflows, dbt transformations, and infrastructure deployments, ensuring a zero-manual-intervention environment.
Data Observability & Cost Optimization: Implement advanced monitoring for complex queries and resource allocation to balance peak performance with cloud cost efficiency.
Streaming & Real-Time AI Feeds: Build and optimize real-time data streaming infrastructure using Apache Beam, Flink, and Pub/Sub to feed instant data into predictive AI models.
Data Governance via Code: Automate security, access control policies (RBAC/ABAC), and data lineage tracing natively within the infrastructure.
QualificationsWhat You'll Bring:7+ years of experience in Data Engineering, with at least 2 years in a Senior or Lead capacity, focusing on Data Infrastructure, Production Engineering, or Platform Operations.
SRE & Observability Expertise: Proven experience applying SRE principles to data (uptime tracking, alerting design, incident response, and performance tuning).
AI/ML Infrastructure Awareness: Experience collaborating with Data Science teams or implementing connectivity infrastructure for AI applications and agents.
Strong Cloud Infrastructure (IaC): Deep expertise with Terraform managing scalable environments in GCP or AWS.
DevOps Mindset: Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and creating complex CI/CD pipelines from scratch.
Modern Data Stack: High proficiency in Python, SQL, dbt, and workflow orchestrators like Airflow (GCP Composer).
Streaming Data: Solid understanding of streaming architectures (Kinesis, Pub/Sub, Beam, or Flink) for real-time applications.

Location:
Based within a short commutable distance of Valencia, as this role requires regular weekly hybrid presence in our office.
Additional InformationWhat

We Offer
Competitive compensationEmployee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)Flying Start
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