Samba is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Identity team in Amsterdam. The role involves architecting and delivering large-scale, cloud-native data engineering systems for identity-linked data ingestion, transformation, and distribution. Candidates must have 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with expertise in data engineering, backend systems, or distributed data infrastructure. Key skills include Python, SQL, JavaScript, distributed processing frameworks (Spark, Databricks), cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt, Prefect), and data warehousing (Snowflake). Responsibilities include designing data pipelines, building API-first services, ensuring data privacy compliance (GDPR, CCPA), driving technical direction, mentoring engineers, and maintaining system reliability. Benefits include competitive total compensation, health insurance, wellness offerings, life and disability insurance, retirement plan, paid holidays, and PTO.
What you'll do
Design, build, and operate large-scale data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and distribution of identity-linked data
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Mentor and invest in growth of engineers through feedback, pairing, and design reviews
Partner with Engineering Manager and cross-functional leads on roadmap shaping, technical planning, and risk resolution
Own end-to-end reliability of Identity systems, lead incident response, and drive post-mortem actions
Define, monitor, and improve SLAs, SLOs, and operational metrics
Drive maturity in CI/CD, deployment practices, and testing coverage
Requirements
12+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep expertise in data engineering, backend systems, or distributed data infrastructure
Proven ability to own technical architecture end-to-end in a complex, production data environment, from design through delivery and operations
Strong command of Python and SQL; comfortable with JavaScript in full-stack or API contexts
Extensive hands-on experience with distributed processing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Databricks) operating on large-scale datasets in production
Solid experience with cloud platforms (AWS and/or GCP) and their core data services
Experience with workflow orchestration tools (Apache Airflow, dbt, Prefect, or equivalent)
Strong familiarity with data warehousing and lakehouse architectures, including Snowflake
Experience building platform-grade, API-first systems that enable self-service by downstream consumers, internal teams or external clients
Deep understanding of data privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA) with practical experience building privacy-compliant systems that handle PII at scale
Familiarity with secure data collaboration concepts, data clean rooms, privacy-preserving computation, or equivalent patterns
Exceptional communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, able to write sharp technical designs, convey advanced information to diverse stakeholders, and drive alignment in ambiguous situations
Genuine mentor and coach who invests in the growth of others, gives direct feedback, and raises the bar for the team
Base salary plus bonuses, short-term incentives, and long-term incentivesHealth insuranceWellness offeringsLife and disability insuranceRetirement savings planPaid holidaysPaid time off (PTO)Other employee benefits
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