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title: 'Senior Data Engineer at Tamara'
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# Senior Data Engineer at Tamara

- **Company:** Tamara
- **Location:** India
- **Posted:** 2026-10-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-12
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/tamara/jobs/4920092101

## Job description

## About Us

Tamara is a leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the GCC region with a mission to help people own their dreams built on being simple, trusted, and everywhere our customers need us. Today, more than 25 million customers and over 130,000 partner merchants depend on Tamara every day for reliable financial solutions across retail, travel, education, healthcare, and beyond. Tamara is backed by Sanabil Investments, a wholly owned company of the Public Investment Fund (PIF), and SNB Capital, among others.

## Your Role

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join the team building Tamara's next-generation data core - a multi-cloud data platform spanning Event Streaming, Data Warehousing, and Experimentation. You will be hands-on; designing and operating petabyte-scale streaming and batch systems that run across clouds. This role is ideal for engineers who love solving complex data challenges at scale, think with a platform mindset, and are excited to raise the technical bar of the team around them.

## Your Responsibilities

- Lead the design and build of platform components that run across multiple clouds — addressing portability, cross-cloud replication, HA/DR, and data residency requirements of a regulated fintech environment, and designing against single-cloud lock-in.
- Build and operate large-scale event streaming infrastructure on Kafka, including configuration tuning and cross-cluster replication between cloud environments.
- Build and maintain real-time and batch data pipelines using tools like Kafka, Spark, and Airflow.
- Drive the development of a scalable LakeHouse architecture using modern open table formats such as Iceberg or Delta Lake.
- Own reliable, cost-aware operation of multi-cloud data infrastructure — SLO-based observability, data quality, and lineage.
- Enable Analytics and Product teams through self-serve data products, well-modeled warehouse foundations and marts, and reusable ingestion (inbound) and consumption (outbound) patterns.
- Provide technical leadership to a group of 5-6 engineers and data engineers — leading design reviews, setting engineering standards, and driving knowledge sharing and documentation.

## Your Expertise

Our stack today: GCP · BigQuery · Kafka/Redpanda · Debezium · dbt · Spark · Airflow · Terraform · Kubernetes

- Preferably 6+ years of experience in data engineering or distributed backend systems, including 3**+ years operating large-scale streaming or data platform infrastructure in production**, and experience mentoring or technically leading engineers.
- Hands-on experience with streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka) and distributed processing tools (e.g., Spark or Flink) — our event streaming platform is built on Kafka.
- Hands-on experience building and operating data pipelines on GCP with BigQuery (and familiarity with multi-cloud patterns).
- Working knowledge of LakeHouse formats (Iceberg/Delta/Hudi) and columnar storage like Parquet.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and cloud-agnostic tooling (e.g., Terraform, Kubernetes) for deploying and operating data platforms across clouds.
- Strong in data modeling and optimizing cloud data warehouses — we run on BigQuery and looking to expand to other Cloud DWHs.

## Who You Are

- A mentor and multiplier: passionate about driving engineering best practices and guiding a group of engineers to grow and deliver.
- An owner: you build it, you run it — comfortable carrying operational responsibility for mission-critical streaming and data systems.
- Comfortable with evolving scope and ambiguity as the platform grows from one cloud to many.
- Compliance-aware: you treat security, data residency, and auditability as first-class design constraints in fintech.
- Motivated by aligning data architecture with business outcomes, and by building platforms other teams love to use.

## Nice to Have

- Familiarity with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki to monitor and troubleshoot data systems.
- Exposure to real-time OLAP engines like ClickHouse, Apache Druid, or Apache Pinot for low-latency analytics.
- Prior experience in fintech or a highly regulated industry, with awareness of data residency, security, and compliance requirements.
- Experience in Airflow or similar orchestration platforms.

## About Tamara

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tamara is the leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the GCC region, offering Sharia-compliant buy now, pay later (BNPL) and payment solutions through a customer-centric financial super-app.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series? – Unicorn stage, backed by top investors)
- **Headquarters**: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (King Abdullah Branch Road, King Salman District)
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (company was founded in 2020 by a team; individual founder names not disclosed in provided sources)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Fintech (BNPL, payments, consumer finance)
- **Target customers**: B2C (consumers) and B2B (merchants, from SMBs to global brands)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To help people make their dreams come true by building the most customer-centric financial super-app on earth” (from Greenhouse careers page) / “Empower people in their daily lives and revolutionize how they shop, pay, and bank” (from docs.tamara.co)

## Products & Services
For each major offering:
- **Tamara Bundle**: Includes Pay in Full and Split in 2/3/4 payment products – flexible, transparent, no hidden fees or interest.
- **Split in Installments**: Allows customers to split purchase amounts into multiple installments (varies by retail category and ticket size).
- **Pay in Full**: Customers pay the total order value upfront via Tamara, with no added fees or interest.
- **Online & In-store Solutions**: Tamara’s payment methods work both for e-commerce and physical retail.
- **Merchant Services**: Boost conversion and AOV, reduce fraud/credit risk, receive upfront payment while customers pay over time, and manage transactions/returns via a dashboard.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $2.107 billion (as of latest funding round – CB Insights lists valuation at $2.107B, making Tamara Saudi Arabia’s first fintech unicorn)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised = $2.107 billion (includes equity and lines of credit; latest round was a Line of Credit - II of $1.4B about 9 months ago)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sanabil Investments (wholly owned by PIF), SNB Capital, Checkout.com, Goldman Sachs, Citi Alternative Investments, Apollo Global Management, W2 Investments, Shorooq Partners (22+ investors total). Key merchant partners: SHEIN, Jarir, noon, IKEA, Amazon.
- **Growth Signals**: Serves millions of users across Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Bahrain; expanding globally with offices in Riyadh, Dubai, Cairo, Vietnam, India, Germany, and remote; strong headcount growth visible in open roles across engineering, data, risk, product, and care.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover & unicorn status** in Saudi Arabia’s fintech space.
- **100% Sharia-compliant** certification by Shariyah Review Bureau – a key differentiator in the region.
- **Strong backing** from PIF-linked investors and global financial institutions.
- **Deep merchant integrations** with top regional and global brands (SHEIN, IKEA, Amazon, etc.).
- **Customer-centric super-app vision** combining payments, shopping, and banking in one platform.

## Strategic Focus
- Build the most comprehensive financial super-app in the GCC, expanding product offerings beyond BNPL (e.g., banking, credit).
- Scale across the region (already in Saudi, UAE, Bahrain) and enter new markets.
- Invest in data, AI, and engineering talent to enhance risk management, personalization, and customer experience.
- Maintain Sharia compliance while innovating payment flexibility.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: “Customer Obsessed”, “Ownership”, “Resilience”, “Curiosity”, “One Team, One Mission” – strong emphasis on trust, simplicity, and being “everywhere people need us.”
- **Work policy**: Hybrid/remote options available – offices in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Vietnam, India, Germany, plus fully remote roles (per Greenhouse careers page).
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**: “We hire for human qualities, not just skills”; focus on continuous learning, data-informed decision-making, and building scalable systems; global team with diverse backgrounds; roles in engineering (backend, Flutter, QA), data science, risk, product design, and more.
- **Growth opportunity**: As a fast-growing unicorn, employees can have high impact and career acceleration.

## Sources
1. [Greenhouse – Jobs at Tamara](https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/tamara)
2. [Tamara – Life at Tamara](https://tamara.co/en-kw/life-at-tamara)
3. [CB Insights – Tamara Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/tamara)
4. [Tamara Docs – Introduction to Tamara](https://docs.tamara.co/docs/introduction-to-tamara)
5. [Tamara Careers Page](https://tamara.co/en-sa/careers)

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