Runtime
Staff Data Engineer
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Role: Staff Data Engineer
Location: UK (Remote)
Sector: Security
About
Runtime have partnered with a fast-growing, Series C-backed startup building critical infrastructure that powers software delivery for organisations worldwide. Their platform handles massive scale - hundreds of millions of requests a day - and sits at the heart of how modern engineering teams ship, secure and manage software.
They're on a trajectory toward IPO and beyond, and now looking for a Staff Data Engineer to help them re-architect their data platform from the ground up.
The Role
This is a genuinely hands-on Staff role. You'll join a small, high-impact data engineering team (currently two engineers) at a pivotal moment: they're re-architecting their core data platform to process artifact data faster, cut duplication, and move from batch toward true real-time processing.
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You'll act as the technical glue between our data and backend engineering tribes — shaping what gets built next, working greenfield on our streaming architecture, and setting the technical bar for the wider team.
What We're Looking For
- 6+ years of professional data/software engineering experience, including large-scale data platforms on AWS
- Hands-on experience with Kafka, CDC pipelines, and Clickhouse (or equivalent OLAP store) at meaningful scale
- Strong Python and SQL skills, with experience across modern data pipeline tooling (e.g. Postgres, S3, Lambda, Kinesis, dbt)
- A track record of leading architectural decisions - not just executing on them
- Comfort operating without a clear playbook, solving novel, system-level problems
- Genuine curiosity about the data itself - where it comes from and how it's used
- Confidence to hold a technical position while staying genuinely collaborative - this is a small, close-knit team, and trust matters as much as technical depth
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Benefits
- Equity in a fast-growing, high-trajectory company
- 8% pension contribution
- 35 days annual leave
- Your birthday off
- Medical, dental & vision cover
- Flexible working
- Professional development budget for training, conferences & certifications
- Real opportunity to shape the architecture of a scaling, high-growth platform
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