Data Engineer
SOUM is hiring a Data Engineer for a remote role open to applicants in Pakistan. Level rates it ; you can apply on SOUM.
Level's read on this job
- Level rates this data engineer role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- This is listed as a remote role.
- The posting mentions Python, SQL and AWS among its tools and skills.
- SOUM has 18 other open roles on Level.
- Posted in the last few days.
AI in this role
Build and maintain scalable data pipelines to support analytics, machine learning models, and business reporting.
Location: Remote
Work Week: Sunday – Thursday
Work Timings: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Saudi Arabian Time Zone) About Us
Soum is on a mission to revolutionize e-commerce in the MENA region and beyond by building the most convenient and trustworthy re-commerce marketplace in the region. We're reshaping how C2C marketplaces operate, making buying and selling second-hand products seamless and reliable. Since our launch in July 2021, Soum has become one of the fastest-growing startups in the region, achieving rapid expansion in both our team and product offerings. In recognition of our impact and growth, we were proudly named one of the Top 10 LinkedIn Startups in Saudi Arabia for 2024.
Overview
We’re seeking a Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain the data infrastructure that underpins our analytics, ML models, and decision-making processes. You’ll be responsible for building scalable data pipelines, integrating diverse data sources, and ensuring data quality, reliability, and accessibility across the organization. Working closely with data scientists, analysts, and product teams, you’ll enable data-driven insights while optimizing for performance and scalability. This is a great opportunity to have a direct impact on how data is leveraged across a fast-growing company.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable data pipelines to support analytics, ML models, and business reporting.
- Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to ensure data is available, clean, and optimized for downstream use.
- Implement data quality checks, monitoring, and validation processes.
- Design efficient ETL/ELT workflows and integrate multiple data sources (databases, APIs, third-party tools) into centralized storage (data lakes/warehouses).
- Support cloud-based infrastructure for data storage and retrieval.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize existing pipelines for large-scale, real-time data flows.
- Apply best practices for query optimization and cost-efficient storage.
- Partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to gather requirements.
- Document workflows, schemas, and processes while supporting a culture of reliability, governance, and security.
Requirements:
- Proficiency in Python and SQL for data engineering tasks.
- Strong understanding of ETL/ELT processes, data warehousing, and data modeling.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and data storage solutions (BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, etc.).
- Familiarity with data orchestration tools Airflow, Airbyte is a must.
- Experience with containerization & deployment tools (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.
- Knowledge of data governance, security, and best practices for handling sensitive data.Familiarity to work with Git and GitHub.
- Dataform is a must
- Strong skills in eliciting requirements from cross-functional stakeholders and translating them into actionable data engineering tasks.
Experience:
- Preferably total 4 years of experience
- 2+ years in data engineering, building and maintaining data pipelines.
- 2+ years of SQL and Python development in production environments.
- Experience working in Fast-growing startup environments is a plus.
- Exposure to real-time data processing frameworks (Kafka, Spark, Flink) is a plus.
- Be part of a fast-scaling Saudi marketplace where Finance has real influence over how the business is run.
- Work directly with senior Finance leadership and gain broad exposure across accounting, audit, and financial operations.
- A culture that values ownership, speed, and constant improvement over hierarchy and red tape.
How we rate this
Data Engineer at SOUM rates 60 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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- Tell me about a project where data warehousing was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used Python in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: ETL, Data Engineering, Data Pipelines, Data Warehousing, and Python. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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