We’re looking for a

Data Engineer

to join our Data team in Sydney.

Data powers some of the most significant decisions at Stake. From understanding customer behaviour and measuring product impact to improving operational efficiency and uncovering new opportunities, our data platform helps teams move with confidence.

As a Data Engineer, you’ll build the foundations that help Stake scale. You’ll create trusted, accessible and high-quality data systems that empower teams across the business to make better decisions, faster.

Working closely with engineers, product managers, analysts and stakeholders, you’ll solve complex problems, improve critical systems and create leverage for others. You’ll play a key role in shaping the future of our data platform while contributing to products and experiences used by hundreds of thousands of customers.

We work in a hybrid model, spending three days a week in our beautiful, dog-friendly Sydney office.

What success looks like Within your first year, you’ll have:

Built and evolved reliable, scalable data pipelines that become foundational to how Stake operates and makes decisions

Increased trust in data across the business by improving quality, observability, governance and documentation

Enabled product, operations and commercial teams to move faster through self-service data capabilities and thoughtfully designed datasets

Partnered closely with engineers and analysts to define and implement scalable data models that support critical business outcomes

Improved the performance, efficiency and maintainability of our data platform as customer and data volumes continue to grow

Helped establish best practices for data engineering, modelling, testing and platform reliability





Influenced how Stake measures success by creating robust datasets and metrics that inform strategic decision-making

Become a trusted technical partner across the business, known for solving complex problems with clarity, pragmatism and impact

You’ll thrive here if…

You have robust experience building and maintaining modern data platforms, pipelines and data products in production environments

You care deeply about data quality, reliability and creating systems other teams can depend on

You’re comfortable working across the data stack, from ingestion and transformation through to modelling and consumption

You combine strong technical judgement with a practical mindset, balancing long-term platform health with business needs

You communicate clearly, simplify complexity and enjoy partnering with people across technical and non-technical teams

You take ownership, move with urgency and enjoy solving problems that have meaningful customer and business impact

Technical skills

Experience with modern data technologies on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including BigQuery, Cloud Storage and Dataflow

Strong proficiency in SQL and data manipulation

Experience working with event-driven data ingestion or real-time data pipelines

Working knowledge of Python or another programming language

Experience with data warehousing and data modelling concepts

Understanding of data governance principles and best practices

Experience with reporting and visualisation tools,



preferably Metabase

Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes and Kafka/Pubsub is ideal, but not essential

Worked in fintech, financial services or another highly regulated industry

Built data platforms supporting product analytics, experimentation or customer-facing products

Worked with modern cloud data platforms such as BigQuery

Contributed to data governance, lineage or observability initiatives at scale

Helped establish engineering standards, tooling or platform capabilities for growing teams

Benefits of working at Stake At Stake, you’ll have the autonomy to make an impact while learning from some of the best people in the industry. You’ll play a meaningful role in building a company with strong momentum, ambitious goals and plenty of opportunities to grow.

Along the way, you’ll also enjoy a range of benefits through our

Grow with Stake

program, including:

Professional development allowance

Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave

Childcare allowance

Annual leave swap days

Discretionary performance bonus

Stake products, including a 30% discount on an annual self-managed super fund (SMSF) membership, a $295 annual trading credit and a Stake Black account

So what happens next? Once we’ve received your application, we’ll give it the attention it deserves. If we think you could be a great addition to the team, we’ll reach out to arrange an initial conversation and guide you through the recruitment process from there.

To all recruitment agencies: Stake does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or directly to Stake employees. Stake is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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📌 Data Engineer - GCP (Sydney)
🏢 Stake
📍 Sydney