Senior Data Engineer
About the Role
At Orfium, we are building the future of music rights and royalties through technology and data. As a Senior Data Engineer on the CORE team (Centralized Orfium Revenue Engine) within the Platform value stream, you’ll own the data foundations of our mission-critical billing and reporting systems - designing for accuracy, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency that directly support on-time invoicing, revenue recognition, and company cash flow for a global client base.
You will design, build, and optimize modern data workflows using Airflow, dbt, Snowflake, and AWS, raising the bar on data quality, observability, performance, and cost. Working in an Agile Scrum environment, you will partner with engineering, product, BI, and service delivery to strengthen our platform and productize new capabilities that help creators get paid every time their music is played. As a senior engineer, you will set best practices by example, own complex components, and mentor teammates - shaping architecture and operational standards, contributing to design reviews, and driving continuous improvement across pipelines and platform reliability.
If you’re looking for a role where your voice is heard, your ideas matter, and your work supports major industry players behind the scenes - while solving real-world data challenges in a collaborative environment - this could be the perfect next step to help shape the future of the entertainment industry through tech.
Requirements
- Design, build, and optimize scalable ELT pipelines with Airflow, dbt and Python to power mission-critical billing & reporting - ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and reliability that support on-time invoicing, revenue recognition, and company cash flow.
- Model and operate data in Snowflake/AWS (performance tuning, cost efficiency, governance), with clear data contracts and well-documented transformations.
- Implement data quality, observability, and lineage (tests, alerts, SLAs) across the lifecycle; participate in incident response and root-cause analysis for billing data flows.
- Contribute to requirements shaping: partner early with Product and Engineering to clarify scope, define acceptance criteria, assess feasibility and trade-offs, and translate business goals into data contracts, SLAs, and implementation plans.
- Collaborate cross-functionally (Engineering, Product, BI, Service Delivery) to translate requirements into production-ready data solutions and productize new capabilities for the monthly billing cycle.
- Apply CI/CD and testing best practices for data workflows (version control, code reviews, automated deploys).
- Influence architecture and standards within the team, balancing feature delivery with technical debt reduction and platform reliability.
- Mentor teammates and contribute to documentation, knowledge sharing, Data Chapter initiatives, and Agile Scrum ceremonies (planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives).
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
- 4+ years of professional experience in Data Engineering.
- Advanced SQL and strong Python for data manipulation and pipeline development.
- Hands-on experience and expertise in designing and maintaining complex ETL/ELT workflows using Airflow (or similar orchestrators) and DBT.
- Deep experience with Snowflake (or modern warehouses such as Databricks/BigQuery), including performance tuning and cost optimization.
- Experience with AWS (or another major cloud) for data infrastructure.
- Proven track record with Git-based workflows and CI/CD for data systems.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills; ability to own complex components.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Pulumi, Terraform, AWS Cloudformation/CDK) to automate data services deployment.
- Experience with Docker and container orchestration (e.g., ECS, Kubernetes) for managing data services.
- Exposure to data visualization and BI tools like Tableau, Metabase, or similar.
Experience with financial/billing datasets, reconciliations, and auditability requirements. - Prior experience working in an Agile environment and contributing to iterative delivery.
Benefits
💰 Competitive salary package and participation in our Stock Options plan
🏠 Hybrid work model with flexibility to support your lifestyle
🏥 Comprehensive private health and life insurance coverage
🌴 Extra paid time off to recharge and take care of yourself
💻 The latest tech equipment to support your productivity and creativity
🌍 A collaborative, inclusive, and international work environment
About Us
We are a global technology leader transforming the music and entertainment industry through advanced rights management and data solutions. With 700+ team members across offices in Los Angeles, London, Dublin, Athens, Sofia, Tokyo, and more, we partner with top-tier clients such as Sony Music Publishing, Warner Music Group, BBC, and Universal Music Publishing. Our mission is to help creators, rights holders, and media companies track, manage, and monetize content across platforms like YouTube and TikTok. At Orfium, you’ll join a passionate, international team of developers, designers, scientists, and music lovers, all working together in a flexible, hybrid environment where innovation, openness, and ownership are at the heart of everything we do. We are looking forward to meeting with you!
EEO / Accommodation
At Orfium, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates—regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. If you require any accommodations during the application or interview process, please let us know. We’re here to ensure you have a comfortable and fair experience every step of the way.