Senior Data Engineer

At Lighthouse, we’re on a mission to disrupt commercial strategy for the hospitality industry. Our innovative commercial platform takes the complexity out of data, empowering businesses with actionable insights, advanced pricing tools, and cutting-edge business intelligence to unlock their full revenue potential.


Backed by $370 million in series C funding and driven by an unwavering passion for growth, we’ve welcomed five companies into our journey and have surpassed $100 million in ARR in 2024. Our 850+ teammates span 35 countries and represent 34 nationalities.


At Lighthouse, we’re more than just a workplace – we’re a community. Collaborative, fun, and deeply committed, we work hard together to revolutionize the hospitality sector. Are you ready to join us and shine brighter in the industry’s most exciting rocket-ship? 🚀


**What You Will Do**
As a
**Senior Data Engineer**
, you will be a key player in ensuring the stability and reliability of our data integrations. Offering support is a large and core focus of this role as you will be responsible for maintaining our existing integrations, acting as the technical expert for any issues that arise. This involves deep technical problem-solving, analyzing and addressing complaints from hotels, and debugging our data pipelines to find and fix root causes. A significant part of your role will be managing communication with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders. You will not only resolve immediate issues but also take ownership of improving our overall support processes to make our team more effective and proactive.


**Where you will have impact**

- Maintain and enhance existing data integrations, ensuring the high reliability and quality of data from our external partners.
- Lead the investigation and resolution of complex technical issues, performing deep-dive analysis into our code and systems to identify the root cause of problems.
- Manage communication effectively with a wide range of stakeholders—including hotels, customer care, account managers, and company leadership—providing clear, transparent, and timely updates on ongoing incidents.
- Collaborate with external partners to gather necessary information and troubleshoot integration issues.
- Proactively identify and drive improvements to our support processes, tooling, and documentation, helping to build a more scalable and efficient support function.

**About Our Team**
The Data Engineering team is the gatekeeper of Lighthouse's vast datasets. Our mission is to reliably transform, integrate, and store the numerous data sources that power our BI products, from web-scraped data to direct API integrations. We handle a staggering amount of information—our main dataset holds over 3 trillion hotel rates, and we process over 100TB of data daily. You'll join a highly talented and collaborative group of 8 data engineers.


**What's in it for you?**

- Flexible time off: Autonomy to manage your work-life balance.
- Career development: Workshops, frameworks, and trainings to maximize your professional potential.
- Impactful work: Shape products relied on by 85,000+ users worldwide.
- Mobility options: Mobility budget or company car (based on your job category).
- Net allowance: Support for home office related expenses.
- Vouchers: Lunch vouchers & Eco vouchers.
- Comprehensive health insurance: Extensive coverage for you and your dependents.
- Pension funding: Group insurance to secure your future.
- Referral bonuses: Earn rewards for bringing in new talent.

**Who You Are**

- You thrive in a support-focused role, enjoying the challenge of debugging complex systems and ensuring their stability and reliability.
- Strong proficiency in Python with a demonstrated affinity for working with large-scale data.
- A thorough approach to development, with an ability to identify edge cases and potential issues in code.
- Experience building and maintaining data processing pipelines.
- The ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a collaborative, open team.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, with the ability to explain technical concepts to diverse audiences.

**We welcome**

- Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.

**Technologies you will work with**
Google Cloud Pub/Sub, BigTable, BigQuery, Dataflow, Kubernetes, Python


Thank you for considering a career with Lighthouse. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace that values equal opportunity for all. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, and disability. We actively encourage applications from individuals with disabilities and are dedicated to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process and during employment to ensure all qualified candidates can participate fully. Our commitment to equality is not just a policy; it's part of our culture.


If you share our passion for innovation and teamwork, we invite you to join us in shaping the future of the hospitality industry. At Lighthouse, our guiding light is to be an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage individuals from all walks of life to apply. Not ticking every box? No problem We value diverse backgrounds and unique skill sets. If your experience looks a little different from what we've described, but you're passionate about what we do and are a quick learner, we'd love to hear from you.


We value the unique perspective and talents that you bring, and we're excited to see how your light can shine within our team. We can't wait to meet you and explore how we can grow and succeed together, illuminating the path towards a brighter future for the industry.