Senior Data Engineer

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Hiring Remotely in Office, Machaze, Manica, MOZ
Remote or Hybrid
Senior level
Fintech • Insurance • Software • Analytics
Delivering data-driven cyber risk analytics for the insurance industry
The Role
Own the architecture of CyberCube’s AI-ready data platform. Design data contracts, schemas, APIs, governance, lineage, access controls, and audit trails for transactional and analytical use. Lead dataset migrations and improve scalability, reliability, and cost across Spark, Iceberg, Airflow, and AWS. Build secure AI-facing interfaces, MCP servers, semantic layers, and evaluation tooling while guiding technical direction through design documentation and cross-team collaboration.
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About CyberCube:

CyberCube delivers the world's leading analytics to quantify digital risk, helping the largest global carriers, reinsurers and brokers understand, price and manage cyber risk in financial terms.

  • AI at our foundation, cyber risk at our core. We don't just use AI, we shape it.

  • Built on AI from day one. Artificial intelligence has been part of our strategy since the beginning, blended with deep cybersecurity and insurance expertise and backed by rigorous testing.

  • Trusted by more than 100 clients, including 75% of the top 40 European and US cyber insurance carriers and 70% of the top ten reinsurance brokers.

  • Backed for global growth. In 2025 Spectrum Equity joined some of CyberCube’s financial partners as a new cornerstone investor, accelerating our global growth and fueling innovation across our end-to-end cyber risk analytics for the insurance industry.

  • A truly global team across San Francisco, New York, London, and Tallinn.

  • A culture of collaboration, openness, intellectual rigor, and ownership for excellence.

  • People at the forefront. We encourage CyberCubers to challenge themselves, push boundaries, and do the best work of their careers.

Most data platforms were built to feed dashboards. Ours has to feed dashboards, applications, and the AI agents we're building to let customers and our own teams dig into sensitive portfolio data far deeper than a dashboard allows — fast, governed, and auditable to the row.
We're hiring a Senior Data Platform Engineer to own the architecture of that layer. Everyone's talking about "AI-ready data infrastructure." This is the job where you actually build it.

What you'll own

  • Data as a product: You'll set up contracts, versioning, docs, SLAs and self-service onboarding, so product teams can use the data access layer without asking us every time.

  • Modelling & migration: You'll design schemas for both transactional and analytical access, and lead the move of existing datasets onto them.

  • AI-facing interfaces: You'll build tool definitions, scoped permissions, metadata exposure and audit trails, so agents can query data safely.

  • Agent vs. pipeline judgment: You'll decide where agentic automation helps and where a deterministic pipeline is the better choice, then build the tooling to match.

  • Platform health: You'll improve scalability, reliability and cost across Spark, Iceberg, Airflow and AWS.

  • Governance: You'll own lineage, quality checks and isolation for client-sensitive data, whether a person or an agent is reading it.

  • People & direction: You'll write and review design docs and turn requirements into epics

Our stack

Python · GraphQL/Hasura · MySQL · Redis · Elasticsearch · Spark · Iceberg · Airflow · Redshift · AWS (S3, Glue, Lambda, RDS, Containers)

Why to join this team

  • Real ownership. You set the technical direction across several teams, not just one backlog.

  • AI work that ships. You'll build MCP servers, semantic layers and eval harnesses for production, not demos.

  • Work that matters. Our analytics help the insurance industry understand and price cyber risk.

  • Engineers who use the tools. Claude Code, Cursor and agentic workflows are part of how we work every day.

You'll thrive if you have

  • Experience in data or backend engineering, with strong Python and production API experience

  • Hands-on GraphQL design (Hasura is a bonus)

  • Deep relational database skills on RDS MySQL/PostgreSQL or similar: schema design, indexing, tuning

  • Experience with Airflow plus lakehouse tools (Spark, Iceberg, Redshift, Athena)

  • A track record of authoring and reviewing system design documents

  • Real experience applying AI to engineering or data work, and daily use of AI coding tools

Bonus points

  • MCP servers or RAG pipelines

  • Agent eval harnesses

  • AI observability (tokens, latency, failure modes)

  • LangGraph / Claude Agent SDK / OpenAI Agents SDK or your own orchestration

  • Guardrails and prompt-injection defence

  • Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Why You'll Love it Here

  • Play an instrumental role in reshaping one of the oldest industries in the world

  • Learning and development assistance

  • Vision and dental coverage

  • Extra vacation days during winter holidays

  • Flexible working hours and work-from-home option

  • Company-supported mentorship and secondment programs

  • Work abroad for up to 3 months with approval

AI Fluency at CyberCube

AI is reshaping how work gets done across every function. We value people who are curious about AI, eager to learn, and thoughtful about applying AI tools to work more effectively. AI fluency is part of how we assess every role in our hiring process.

Don't tick every box? Apply anyway.

Research shows the best candidates rarely match a job description point for point. If you're excited about this role and believe you could make an impact, we'd love to hear from you, even if your experience doesn't line up perfectly with everything listed above.

CyberCube Analytics, Inc. and CyberCube Analytics Europe Limited is an equal opportunity employer. We don’t tolerate discrimination against age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, race, color, nationality, ethnicity, religion, disability, veteran status, protected genetic information or political affiliation.

Skills Required

  • Experience in data or backend engineering
  • Strong Python skills
  • Production API development experience
  • Hands-on GraphQL design experience
  • Deep relational database experience with RDS MySQL, PostgreSQL, or similar, including schema design, indexing, and tuning
  • Experience with Airflow and lakehouse tools such as Spark, Iceberg, Redshift, or Athena
  • Experience authoring and reviewing system design documents
  • Experience applying AI to engineering or data work
  • Daily use of AI coding tools
  • Hasura experience
  • Experience with MCP servers or RAG pipelines
  • Experience building agent evaluation harnesses
  • Experience with AI observability, including tokens, latency, and failure modes
  • Experience with LangGraph, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, or other orchestration frameworks
  • Experience with guardrails and prompt-injection defense
  • Elasticsearch or OpenSearch experience
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
138 Employees
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

CyberCube is a SaaS technology company, developing world-leading cyber risk analytics and modeling to help society understand the financial impact of cyber risk. We enable society to make better decisions about which digital risks to avoid, mitigate or insure as internet-connected technologies change the nature of risk in the 21st Century. CyberCube delivers world-class insight-driven analytics, built specifically for the insurance ecosystem. We’re helping our customers all over the world use our data and analytics applications to enable insurance placement, underwriting decisions, and portfolio management optimization. We help power insight-driven decisions to grow cyber insurance in a sustainable, profitable way. We help the cyber insurance market to grow profitably through the use of our world-leading cyber risk analytics. We give insurers the ability to take insight-driven risk decisions, see trends before they become claims and tackle complex and important challenges. The combined power of our unique data, multi-disciplinary analytics and cloud based technology helps with insurance placement, underwriting selection and portfolio management optimization. Our deep bench of experts from data science, security, threat intelligence, actuarial science, software engineering and insurance helps the global insurance industry by selecting the best sources of data and curating it into data sets to identify trustworthy early indicators of risks and build a forward-looking view of them.

Why Work With Us

Our supportive and respectful environment increases the participation and contribution of all employees, with personal development and inclusion being priorities. We deeply care about the wellbeing of our employees and strive for a fun and healthy environment where you'll be able to roll your sleeves up and learn with like-minded talented people.

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