Senior Data Engineer

Want to deliver tech with purpose, with people who care?

Join us and develop cutting-edge software solutions that help keep children safe online.

Who are we?

Headquartered in Perth, Australia, Qoria is an ASX listed global leader in child digital safety technology and services. We are a purpose driven business, operating under the ‘Linewize’ brand in North America and Asia Pacific, under the ‘Smoothwall’ brand in the UK, and under the ‘Qoria’ brand in EMEA. Our solutions are utilized by schools, school districts and their parental communities to protect children from seeing harmful content online, to identify children at risk based on their digital behaviors and to ensure teachers maintain focus and safe learning in the digital classroom. 27k schools and 6 million parents depend on our solutions to keep 22 million children safe in 180 countries around the world.

What’s the opportunity?

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will help design and deliver highly scalable and performant software solutions, to be used and loved by millions of students and parents around the globe; collaborating with colleagues while demonstrating technical and delivery leadership.

This role is within our Data Engineering team. The Data Engineering team owns data and data-related products, services and infrastructure from the point of capture through to consumption. From authentication and authorisation to end-user device management, the micro-services that Platform is responsible for are critical to all our Products. You will help provide platform services to dozens of software teams globally who depend on us to move fast. Some of our services serve over 2 billion requests per day.

Here's how you'll do it:

• Work with a team of dedicated engineers to roll out game changing cloud-based technology features and products that help protect a child's digital journey.

• Relish in the challenge of working with high performance code to ingest / process our data.

• Get a kick out of how much data we ingest and serve up for reporting.

• Feel empowered to have a voice in our technical direction.

• Collaboration on a daily basis with your team and managers to understand priorities, develop solutions and help to troubleshoot any problems.

• Developing across multiple programming and frameworks to deliver the best fit for purpose solution.

• Operate primarily with cloud based software using the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

What you will bring:

• Expert-level knowledge of at least 1 statically typed language, preferably Golang or Java.

• Strong experience with building software using cloud platforms and services. We use GCP predominantly, but highly value experience in AWS or Azure.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (we use Terraform).

• Experience operating DevOps principles and practices in production. We believe strongly in the DevOps principle “You Build It, You Run It”.

• Experience in solving problems by designing systems in a distributed environment.

• Good understanding of how to improve quality in software systems.

• Experience with databases and caches (we use BigQuery, PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached, BigTable, CockroachDB).

• Comfortable using CI/CD systems (we use ArgoCD, Github actions, Codefresh).

• Learning mindset, open to learning new technologies.

• Experience in mentoring team members.

• A passion for technology and development, problem solving and building products/solutions.

• A strong sense of ownership and accountability.

• Experience dealing with stakeholders and managing expectations.

• Excellent communication skills with ability to explain complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders. A natural collaborator.

• Degree in Computing, Information Technology, Science or similar.

In this role, you can expect:

• Employee Share Scheme

• Additional leave days

• Tech Allowance 

• Flexibility.... and much more

More importantly, you’ll:

• Deliver tech with purpose...

As a Senior Data Engineer here, your work truly matters. Your skills, knowledge and ideas will all help children stay safe online. It feels good to do good.

• With people who care...

Our Engineers are amazing! They’re also amazingly supportive. We all take ownership of our work, end to end. And at the same time, we really care about growing and winning together.

• Through work that you love...

You’ll get to work on technology and data scaling challenges for a global customer base. And you'll be exposed to modern technologies and processes, in a fast-paced and supportive learning environment.

• And a career that you own...

This role offers so many opportunities to expand your skills and grow your career. You’ll get to attend local software conferences, paid for by us. And as you step up and take ownership to make things happen, you’ll carve out an incredible career.

What’s our technology stack?

The tech stack you’ll be using will depend on the team you’re working with. But the range of technologies we use means there are always opportunities for further growth and development.

Our platform is predominantly cloud-based (GCP), and we have a rich tapestry of architectural components and processes including:

• RESTful backend services (Go, Python, Java).

• Client-side static apps (React).

• Fit-for-purpose filtering clients deployed across laptops, mobiles, and tablets (Go, Java, C/C++).

• Deployment and orchestration via Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Run.

• Distributed version control via Github and CI/CD via Github actions, Argo and CodeFresh. We follow trunk-based development and GitOps.

• BigTable, BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached, CockroachDB.

We’d love you to apply, even if you don’t have experience with our entire tech stack. We’re pro-learning, good engineering and coding paradigms, rather than specific tools.

Shortlisting will commence immediately.