Kogan.com is a pioneer of Australian eCommerce, and the software we build is used by millions of customers every day. You'll join a fast-moving engineering team with real ownership, shipping to production daily and using AI as part of how we work.

As a Data Engineer you'll design and run the data and ML pipelines that let teams across Marketing, Purchasing, Logistics and Finance make confident, data-driven decisions.

What you'll do:

- Scalable Pipeline Development: Design and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines capable of handling 10M daily events and large-scale data transfers across our platforms.
- Data Modeling: Develop and optimize data models in environments like BigQuery or Snowflake to ensure high performance for both analytics and ML training sets with optimal cost
- Support ML Workflows: Build the underlying features and data inputs required for Machine Learning models
- Develop and refine ML models for practical business use cases, such as customer sentiment, churn prediction or demand forecasting
- MLOps Integration: Establish and maintain MLOps pipelines to help automate the deployment and monitoring of models in production.
- System Integration: Work with internal APIs and third-party tools to ingest data efficiently while maintaining strict data integrity.
- Governance & Quality: Implement best practices for data quality, security, and documentation to ensure our data remains a "source of truth."
- Development according to software engineering best practices (Git, CI/CD, trunk based development, tests)
- AI Collaboration: Contribute to experiments with AI and LLMs to assess how they can be practically applied to solve business problems.

What you'll need:

- Strong SQL Foundations:



Solid experience writing and optimizing SQL for commercial-scale products (e.g., handling millions of rows and complex joins efficiently).
- Pipeline Orchestration: Proven experience using tools like Airflow, dbt, or AWS Glue to manage and monitor production-grade data workflows.
- Python Proficiency: Strong Python skills for data transformation, scripting and interacting with various data sources.
- ML Engineering Exposure: Practical experience building the data infrastructure that supports machine learning, including data preprocessing and model deployment pipelines. Experience with machine learning models development
- Cloud Experience: Hands-on experience with cloud data platforms, with a strong preference for GCP.
- Software Best Practices: Familiarity with Git, CI/CD, and basic containerization (Docker) to ensure code quality and deployment reliability.
- Problem-Solving Mindset: A practical approach to engineering that balances the need for speed with long-term system stability.

Why Kogan.com?

- Work on machine learning , data and AI products that are used by millions of customers and have a measurable impact on the business.
- Own problems end to end, from experimentation and modelling through to deployment and optimisation in production.
- Join a highly capable engineering team that values autonomy, fast execution and practical innovation.
- Help shape the future of AI, machine learning and eCommerce at one of Australia's leading technology businesses.
- Receive a $1,000 annual learning budget to invest in your growth and development.
- Enjoy a range of advantages including a complimentary Kogan First membership, team discounts, health and wellbeing initiatives, Lunch & Learns, hackathons, referral bonuses, volunteering opportunities and regular team events.

📌 Data Engineer (South Melbourne)
🏢 Kogan.com
📍 South Melbourne