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Samba TV

Senior Software Engineer - Identity

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Key details

Salary

Not specified

Employment type

Full-time

Seniority

Staff

Years experience

10+

Location

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Full job description

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
  • Architect ETL/ELT workflows using distributed computing frameworks on cloud infrastructure
  • Design and build API-first, platform-grade services exposing Identity capabilities as self-service building blocks
  • Define and implement observability, data quality validation, and monitoring frameworks
  • Drive performance optimization, cloud cost efficiency, and platform-thinking across Identity’s systems
  • Own the technical evolution of Identity’s core systems including probabilistic and deterministic matching, device graph construction, and audience segmentation
  • Architect and implement secure data collaboration capabilities including clean room workflows and privacy-preserving computation
  • Set technical direction for Identity systems serving downstream use cases and ensure cross-functional alignment
  • Own technical design and architecture producing clear design documents and driving alignment across teams
  • Lead code and design reviews, champion code quality, testability, and maintainability
  • 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

Tech stack

PythonSQLJavaScriptSparkDatabricksAWSGCPApache AirflowdbtPrefectSnowflakeKafkaFlinkSpark StreamingAIMachine Learning

Benefits

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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