Senior Data Platform Engineer

MoonPay is hiring a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design and scale shared data-platform capabilities across real-time and batch processing, governance, reliability, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Real-time and batch processing
• Data governance, quality, and observability

Requirements

• You’re a systems thinker who has helped design and scale data platforms used by multiple teams. You’re comfortable operating across architecture, hands-on delivery, and organisation-wide technical influence.
• You value pragmatic solutions, strong engineering foundations, and quality outcomes over complexity for its own sake.
• We’re looking for someone who brings:
• Significant experience designing and evolving large-scale data platforms, distributed and stream processing systems
• Deep knowledge of real-time and event-driven architectures using technologies such as Kafka or Pub/Sub.
• A track record of leading complex technical initiatives that span multiple teams or domains.
• Experience building platform capabilities, shared services, and engineering patterns that other teams can adopt
• Strong judgement across reliability, scalability, performance, governance, security, and cost management.
• The ability to move between high-level architectural decisions and hands-on implementation.
• Experience influencing engineers and stakeholders around shared technical standards and long-term priorities
• A team-first approach, with a passion for mentoring experienced engineers and raising the technical bar
• Strong communication skills and the ability to make complex technical decisions clear to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working in a regulated environment, or designing systems with strong compliance and auditability requirements
• Experience with our specific technology stack is helpful, but architectural judgement, systems thinking, and technical leadership matter more than expertise in any one tool.

Benefits

• 💰 Competitive salary package
• 🤝 Equity package: financial freedom starts with our employees, so all employees have ownership at MoonPay
• 📈 Pay-for-performance equity bonus: those who drive outsized outcomes receive outsized rewards
• 🚀 Moonshot award: we honor exceptional impact. 10 employees twice a year, each earning a $250,000 equity grant
• 📊Pension: employer contributions from day one
• 🎁Employee referral program: refer great people, earn 10K in USDC
• 🏝 Flexible Time Off: choose when to work and when to switch off
• 🎂 Birthday leave: take the day off to celebrate you
• 🍼 Enhanced parental leave: more time with family, no second thought
• 🌍 Hybrid working schedule: work fully remotely or from your nearest Moonbase
• 🚆 Commuter benefits: public transport to and from the office
• 🩺 Private healthcare benefits: to protect you and your loved ones
• 🧘 Wellhub wellness membership: access to gyms, studios, classes, and wellness apps in one membership
• 🤖 Unlimited enterprise access to the latest AI tools: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and whatever's next
• 🍱 Lunch credit: meals covered on the days you're in the office
• 🪑 Home office setup allowance: build the home office of your dreams
• 👛 Remote working allowance: those working fully remotely get a little extra for utilities
• 🌕 Monthly product budget and zero-fee crypto transactions
• 📚 $1,000 Annual training budget: we support your learning journey
• 🎯 High Potential Program: structured development, mentorship, and stretch opportunities
• ✈️ Regular remote company offsites: high-impact in-person sessions and hackathons
• 🚲 (Ireland) Cycle to Work scheme: tax-efficient bike, gear, and safety kit
• 🔌 (UK) EV Salary Sacrifice: lease an electric vehicle through pre-tax salary

Compensation

Base compensation: $260K – $274K

How to Apply

Apply through the official job page.