Senior Data Engineer- Platform

Hello, Truecaller is calling you from Bangalore, India! Ready to pick up?

Our goal is to make communication smarter, safer, and more efficient, all while building trust everywhere. We're all about bringing you smart services with a big social impact, keeping you safe from fraud, harassment, scam calls or messages, so you can focus on the conversations that matter.

• Top 20 most downloaded apps globally, and world’s #1 caller ID and spam-blocking service for Android and iOS, with extensive AI capabilities, with more than 450 million active users per month. 
• Founded in 2009, listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm and is categorized as a Large Cap. Our focus on innovation, operational excellence, sustainable growth, and collaboration has resulted in consistently high profitability and strong EBITDA margins.
• A team of 400 people from ~35 different nationalities spread across our headquarters in Stockholm and offices in Bangalore, Mumbai, Gurgaon and Tel Aviv with high ambitions.

We in the Data Infrastructure Team  work on a vision to empower our product-oriented teams with a complete self-service analytics platform to make data-driven decisions possible in Truecaller, guaranteeing the stability, velocity, and delivery of the mainstream events pipeline.  

As a Senior Data Engineer - Platform, you will play an important role in the development of data pipelines, frameworks and models to support the understanding of our users and making better product decisions. You will contribute to empowering the product teams with a complete self-serve analytics platform by working on scalable and robust solutions while collaborating with data engineers, data scientists and data analysts across the company.

What you bring in: 

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering and large-scale distributed systems
• Proven expertise in building and maintaining complex ETL/ELT pipelines
• Deep knowledge of orchestration frameworks (e.g., Airflow), and workflow optimization
• Strong cloud infrastructure experience (GCP preferred; AWS or Azure also relevant)
• Expert-level programming in Python or Scala; solid understanding of Spark internals
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and infrastructure as code
• Familiarity with managing self-hosted tools like Spark or Airflow on Kubernetes
• Experience managing data warehouse in BigQuery or Redshift
• Strong communication skills and a proactive, problem-solving mindset
  

The impact you will create:  

• Design , build and optimize the data ingestion pipeline to reliably deliver billions of events daily in defined SLA
• Lead initiatives to improve scalability , performance and reliability
• Provide support for all product teams in building and optimizing their complex pipelines
• Identify and address pain points in the existing data platform; propose and implement high-leverage improvements
• Develop new tools and frameworks to streamline the data platform workflows
• Drive adoption of best practices in data and software engineering (testing, CI/CD, version control, monitoring)
• Work in close collaboration with data scientists and data analysts to help support their work in production
• Support production ML workflows and real-time streaming use cases
• Mentor other engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence and knowledge sharing

It would be great if you also have:

• Working with messaging systems like Kafka , Redpanda
• Experience with real-time data streaming platforms (e.g., Flink, Spark Structured Streaming)
• Familiarity with ML platforms or MLOps workflows

Life at Truecaller - Behind the code:  https://www.instagram.com/lifeattruecaller/

Sounds like your dream job?

We will fill the position as soon as we find the right candidate, so please send your application as soon as possible. As part of the recruitment process, we will conduct a background check.

 This position is based in Bangalore, India. 

We only accept applications in English. 

What we offer: 

• A smart, talented and agile team: An international team where  ~35 nationalities are working together in several locations and time zones with a learning, sharing and fun environment. 
• A great compensation package: Competitive salary, 30 days of paid vacation, flexible working hours, private health insurance, parental leave, telephone bill reimbursement, Udemy membership to keep learning and improving and Wellness allowance.
• Great tech tools: Pick the computer and phone that you fancy the most within our budget ranges. 
• Office life:  We strongly believe in the in-person collaboration and follow an office-first approach while offering some flexibility. Enjoy your days with great colleagues with loads of good stuff to learn from, daily lunch and breakfast and a wide range of healthy snacks and beverages. In addition, every now and then check out the playroom for a fun break or join our exciting parties and or team activities such as Lab days, sports meetups etc. There something for everyone!

Come as you are:  Truecaller is diverse, equal and inclusive. We need a wide variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs and experiences in order to keep building our great products. No matter where you are based, which language you speak, your accent, race, religion, color, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, etc. All those things make you who you are, and that’s why we would love to meet you.