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# Senior Data Engineer (India) at Karat

- **Company:** Karat
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/karat/jobs/8880766002

## Job description

We're [Karat](https://karat.com/), the world's largest interviewing company.

Karat is transforming organizations around the world. We provide a powerful system for technical leaders at companies like PayPal, Atlassian, and Citi who want to take control of how they hire top engineers, elevate their teams and contractors, and stay ahead. At the core of Karat’s system are live, expert-led interviews, analytics designed to give leaders maximum visibility, and the most robust interview performance dataset in the world.

Come join our Engineering team

Our Engineering team builds the infrastructure, reporting, and data products that turn Karat’s unique interview and performance data into meaningful insights. We partner across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and the business to create a reliable data foundation and to improve how Karat understands, uses, and delivers data.

## What you will do

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will design and build the systems that make high-quality data available across the company. You will be a hands-on technical leader who can turn ambiguous business and product questions into durable data models, reliable pipelines, and actionable information.

This position requires a schedule that overlaps with U.S. business hours.

- Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain scalable cloud-based data pipelines that ingest and transform data from product, operational, and third-party systems.
- Own data-pipeline architecture, including orchestration, monitoring, reliability, performance, and data quality.
- Develop workflows, transformations, and data models that transform raw data into useful, trusted, and actionable information.
- Improve data quality through validation, observability, monitoring, and clear ownership of critical datasets.
- Help manage and improve our existing data stack, including PostgreSQL and Redshift databases, Airflow for orchestration, and Terraform for infrastructure management.
- Help strengthen data literacy across technical and non-technical teams through clear communication and thoughtful partnership.

The experience you will bring

- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, machine learning, or related technical roles
- Strong experience building, operating, and improving production data pipelines
- Expertise with relational and columnar databases, including advanced SQL and dimensional data modeling principles such as fact and dimension tables
- Proficiency with Python, Docker, and workflow-orchestration frameworks such as Apache Airflow
- Hands-on experience with AWS or comparable cloud platforms
- Strong grounding in software-engineering practices, including version control, code review, testing, observability, and documentation
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, including the ability to collaborate effectively with globally distributed teams

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This position is only available to candidates residing in Bengaluru (formerly known as Bangalore). While our team operates 100% remotely, we are currently limiting hiring to this specific location. We will not consider applications from other cities in India at this time.

Applicants, please note: we will not consider submissions that are not 100% in English.

Additional Information

By applying for a position, you consent to the processing of your personal data in accordance with Karat’s Employee and Contractor Privacy Notice found [here](https://karat.com/privacynotice/).

Statement of Inclusivity

In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Karat.

We value a diverse workforce: people of color, womxn, and LGBTQIA+ individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know at accommodation@karat.com.

## About Karat

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Karat provides expert-led technical interview services and workforce intelligence to help companies evaluate and elevate engineering talent in the Human + AI era.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding details not disclosed in available sources)
- **Headquarters**: Not publicly available in provided sources
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Mo Bhende and Jeffrey Spector

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Technical hiring and talent assessment, workforce intelligence
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily enterprise (e.g., 7 of the 25 largest public companies, 4 of the 7 largest UK banks, 4 of the 4 largest payment companies)
- **Mission or purpose**: "Unlocking opportunity" by making hiring fair, predictive, and enjoyable; powering the AI economy through objective talent evaluation.

## Products & Services
- **Technical Interview Services**: Expert-led, live technical interviews conducted by Karat’s trained Interview Engineers, ensuring a consistent and rigorous evaluation bar across all candidates.
- **AI Evaluation Expertise**: Live AI-native scenarios and methodologies to assess the AI-enabled engineer without draining internal teams.
- **Workforce Transformation Intelligence**: A consistent evaluation system to optimize hiring, vendor selection, and team mix, providing data-backed decisions and global comparability.
- **Partner Talent**: Uplevel contractors and IT service providers by applying the same rigorous standards.
- **Brilliant Black Minds**: A flagship purpose program offering free mock technical interviews to software engineers from historically underrepresented backgrounds.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed in available sources
- **Key Metric**: Over 600,000 technical interviews conducted; 1 million hours reclaimed back to engineers
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly listed in provided sources, but customers include major public companies, UK banks, and payment firms
- **Growth Signals**: Expansion into AI-native evaluation and workforce intelligence; global remote workforce (roles in US, India, Brazil, Greece, Singapore, Japan, Pakistan); continued hiring across engineering, product, and legal functions

## Competitive Advantages
- **Consistency & Objectivity**: Every candidate is assessed the same way by trained interviewers, making hiring data truly comparable.
- **Scale & Data**: 600,000+ interviews provide deep visibility into talent benchmarks across organizations.
- **AI-Ready Methodology**: Live AI-native scenarios that evaluate the AI-enabled engineer, a differentiator as companies transform for the Human + AI era.
- **Expert Interviewers**: A dedicated team of Interview Engineers frees internal engineers from hours of interviewing.

## Strategic Focus
- **Human + AI Era**: Helping CIOs and CTOs reimagine workforce capability in the age of AI, with a focus on AI readiness and workforce transformation intelligence.
- **Global Expansion**: Building a distributed team across time zones to support clients worldwide.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Continuing the Brilliant Black Minds program and embedding equitable practices into hiring.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include "Win as One Team, One Karat", "Embrace Real Talk", "Champion Brilliance", and "Support the Whole Person". Emphasis on collaboration, creativity, and inclusion.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Many roles are remote (United States select states, India Bangalore, and contractor positions globally).
- **Impact**: Every position directly impacts the mission of unlocking opportunity; employees work at the intersection of people and technology.
- **Growth**: Opportunities to level up through a mission-driven environment with a focus on continuous learning and feedback.

## Sources
1. [Karat Homepage](https://karat.com/)
2. [Karat Careers Page](https://karat.com/careers/)
3. [Karat About Page](https://karat.com/about/)
4. [Karat Jobs on Greenhouse](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/karat)
5. [Karat LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/karat)

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