Senior Data Engineer

Position Summary: 

With team members and customers in 39 countries around the globe, HostPapa is currently one of the fastest-growing web hosting companies with a wide range of products available. At its core, we provide individuals and small and medium-sized businesses with access to valuable tools and services critical to their online success, including a Website Builder service for making website creation an ultra-easy task for anyone. Tailored to meet every user's unique needs, our award-winning customer support, email, and cloud-based solutions keep HostPapa at the cutting edge of the web hosting industry and innovation by putting our customers first.

This role focuses on CloudBlue, a HostPapa business that powers cloud commerce for many of the world’s largest service providers, including major Telcos, distributors, and MSPs. CloudBlue enables partners to monetize and manage cloud services and subscriptions at scale, combining the agility of a high-growth business with the backing of a global organization.

As the Senior Data Engineer, you will help design, build, and evolve CloudBlue’s data and analytics platform, with a strong focus on AI-driven capabilities. You will build scalable data infrastructure and help embed AI into backend services, APIs, and business workflows across our cloud-native SaaS platform. 

What you'll do

• Build and maintain a high-volume, high-performance data fabric, including real-time ingestion, data pipelines, storage, and analytics
• Own features end to end, from technical design and implementation through testing and production
• Drive the adoption of AI across the platform and develop AI-powered workflows and capabilities
• Design and integrate APIs that connect data, services, and business workflows across the CloudBlue ecosystem
• Work closely with engineers in small, cross-functional feature teams
• Collaborate with Product Managers and other CloudBlue teams to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions
• Help ensure data quality, reliability, observability, and performance across production pipelines
• Partner with your Engineering Manager on professional growth and career development
• Support other tasks or projects as assigned to meet team and business needs

About you

• Strong professional software engineering experience, with a solid background in building data-intensive systems
• Extensive experience building data pipelines and data models, including production-scale data workloads
• Hands-on experience with Python
• Strong expertise with event-streaming technologies such as Kafka, NATS, Flink, or similar. This is a real-time platform, so streaming experience is essential
• Experience working with cloud-native infrastructure such as Azure, AWS, or GCP, as well as containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of data contracts, data quality, pipeline observability, and production SLOs
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools, along with a genuine interest in applying AI to solve engineering problems and streamline development workflows
• Strong experience designing and integrating APIs
• Solid knowledge of PostgreSQL and relational databases
• Experience with unit and end-to-end testing and building reliable, production-ready systems
• Professional working proficiency in English, with the ability to collaborate effectively in a distributed, international environment
• Familiarity with billing, finance, or usage-based/metered monetization is a plus
• Exposure to integrating LLMs or AI services, such as RAG, MCP, agent runtimes, Anthropic/OpenAI APIs, or similar technologies, is an advantage
• Experience with modern lakehouse or data federation patterns, such as Iceberg, Trino, or similar technologies, would be beneficial

What we offer:

• Work from anywhere - this is a remote opportunity
• A competitive salary that values you and your unique skill sets
• Career advancement & professional development opportunities to help you reach your full potential
• Flexible work arrangements to support work/life balance

About us:

At HostPapa, we’ve been committed to providing a complete array of enterprise-grade cloud services solutions to every business owner since 2006. These services, traditionally out of reach to smaller businesses, are offered in a one-stop shop, making it quick and easy for customers to select the services they need to grow. We back these offerings with 24/7 award‑winning customer support in four languages.

Our HostPapa team values diversity and inclusion. We have a friendly company culture built on trust and respect. With the acquisition of several companies into our product portfolio, we’re growing at an incredible rate and have ample opportunities for career growth. 

Come join our talented team of enthusiastic, hard-working, passionate, driven people engaged in meaningful, innovative work. We can’t wait to meet you!

HostPapa is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. As a multicultural organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of our diverse team. 

HostPapa is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities. If you require accommodation, please let us know, and we will work with you to meet your needs. Accommodation may be provided in all parts of the hiring process.

It is anticipated that this position will be performed outside of Ontario.