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