Senior Data Engineer

📋 Description Build and operate large-scale, high-throughput data pipelines powering AI-ready web search Design and maintain distributed ETL / ELT workflows for web indexing, embeddings, and analytics Develop and optimize data ingestion and transformation systems across structured and unstructured sources Manage and scale data storage layers (SQL, NoSQL, and object stores) for performance and reliability Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to system design for data infrastructure Collaborate with ML and backend teams to deliver high-quality, real-time data for ranking and retrieval 🎯 Requirements Are excited to help build Google for AI agents — and believe in Linkup's mission Have strong experience in data engineering or backend development (3y minimum) Understand distributed systems, data modeling, and streaming architectures Care about data quality, observability, and system reliability Enjoy debugging tough pipeline issues and optimizing for latency or throughput Are curious about AI infrastructure, indexing systems, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) Thrive in a fast-paced, high-ownership startup environment 🎁 Benefits Flexible remote-work policy