Imagine working at a company where you get the best of all worlds: the fast-paced execution of a startup and the guidance of leaders who’ve built things that actually work at scale. Founded by industry veterans and backed by cutting edge technologies, we’re not just rethinking how procurement analytics is done — we’re redefining them.
At sensecloud, we envision a future where Procurement data management and analytics is as intuitive as your favorite app. No more complex spreadsheets, no more waiting in line to get IT and analytics teams’ attention, no more clunky dashboards —just real-time insights, smooth automation, and a frictionless experience that helps companies make fast decisions. If you’re ready to help us build the future of procurement analytics, come join the ride.
We believe procurement challenges aren’t just business issues—they’re human problems. When procurement decisions lack precision, it stifles innovation, strains supplier relationships, and drives up costs that ultimately hurt the business and are passed on to customers. Poor procurement practices can hinder company’s growth, reduce competitiveness, and create barriers to delivering value. Sensecloud is here to change that, and we need you to help us do it. By joining us, you’ll be part of an expert team that is fundamentally reshaping procurement data management and analytics, fostering innovation, strengthening supplier partnerships, and ensuring cost-effective strategies that benefit everyone involved.
You'll work alongside the brightest minds in the industry, learn cutting-edge technologies, and be empowered to take on challenges that will stretch your skills and your thinking. If you’re ready to help us build the future of procurement, analytics come join the ride.
About the Role
The Data Team at sensecloud is on a mission to revolutionize how Procurement information is accessed, indexed, and advanced. Procurement data is vast and messy, but it’s also the fuel that powers efficiency, sustainability, and innovation. Our team is developing analytical approaches that turn this raw, complex data into actionable intelligence, enabling smarter decisions and better outcomes for everyone.
Variety, quality, timeliness, and completeness—this is the lifeblood of our work. If you’re a passionate engineer and developer who thrives on solving hard problems, exploring new platforms, and building something the world has never seen before, we want you on our team.
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will leverage new and existing data sources in support of Sensecloud’s core data lake and analytical products. We are seeking stellar candidates who love data of all kinds, are masters of building efficient, scalable, operable data pipelines, and are ready to take hands-on coding ownership in the following areas:
- Data ingestion pipelines for existing and new data sources (both batch and real-time streaming)
- Experience with all forms of multi-modal data types
- Monitoring frameworks to protect data quality and consistency
- Data modeling design and data architecture skills to support reporting and analytics requirements
- Experience in the latest generation of data lake architectures, stream and batch processing, and managed cloud services to support scale growth of 100x or more!
Requirements
As an early-stage startup, we are looking for team members who are ready and willing to take on a variety of challenges and bring an abiding curiosity about the “what’s” and “why’s” of the data and technology. Specific qualifications we are looking for:
- Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or other data-intensive discipline with substantive engineering experience.
- 6+ years demonstrated development experience using SQL, Java, Scala, Spark, Flink, Beam, and/or Python
- 4+ years demonstrated experience in data management (structured and unstructured) and modern database technologies
- Demonstrated experience developing data pipelines to support machine learning, LLMs or other analytical solutions (with tools such as dbt, Dagster, cube.dev,.…)
- Experience working with multi-cloud providers such as AWS and Azure
- Ability and willingness to work in a lightweight Agile/Scrum development process
- Ability to work remotely or in-person
- Ability to work collaboratively through ambiguity, with urgency, patience, and good humor
Bonus Points & Other Considerations
- Demonstrated experience with Spark or other distributed data-processing frameworks
- Experience working with Procurement, economic, forecasting, and weather data
- Good “data savvy”, rooted in strong foundational knowledge of statistical methods and probability
- Resilient, driven, and confident, with the determination to tackle one of the most complex and consequential challenges in the world.
Benefits
- Highly competitive total compensation packages
- Work with teammates who tackle complex and consequential challenges with resilience, determination, and good humor.
If you’re ready to join a company that’s on a mission to make the world’s procurement teams work smarter, faster, and more sustainably—without the clunky tech—then we want to hear from you! Apply today and let’s build this together.
sensecloud considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.