Data Platform Engineer

We're looking for a Data Platform Engineer to help build and operate the data infrastructure powering reporting, analytics, and AI products across Airtasker.

This is a hands‑on engineering role where your work has a direct line to business outcomes. You'll own meaningful pieces of the platform - clean dbt models other teams rely on, reliable Dagster pipelines that recover gracefully, and ingestion connectors that just work. You'll grow your scope across cloud infrastructure, orchestration, governance, and the AI‑enabled pipelines reshaping what data teams can deliver.

This is a Sydney based role with 2 days per week in the office.

What you'll do

- Build and maintain core data pipelines: Design and operate reliable, business‑ready data models and transformation pipelines using dbt, SQL, and Python to support analytics and downstream use cases.
- Scale our data platform: Contribute to the design and operation of AWS‑based data infrastructure (including Terraform), balancing scalability, reliability, and cost effectiveness.
- Strengthen orchestration and reliability: Help build and evolve our Dagster‑based orchestration platform, improving monitoring, resilience, and operational maturity.
- Enable self‑service analytics: Deliver high‑quality foundational datasets and tooling that improve data accessibility and accelerate decision‑making across the business.
- Improve data quality and trust: Apply software engineering best practices (CI/CD, testing, documentation) to ensure data products are robust, auditable, and trusted.
- Collaborate and automate: Work closely with analysts, data scientists, and engineers, and use Python to automate workflows and continuously improve the data platform,



including supporting production ML use cases.

We'd love to hear from you if you tick some of these boxes

- A solid understanding of the data lifecycle, from ingestion through to analysis and consumption.
- Strong SQL skills for data modelling, transformation, and analysis.
- Hands‑on experience using dbt in a professional or personal project setting.
- Familiarity with software engineering principles, including version control, testing, and CI/CD.
- Experience using Python for scripting, automation, or data manipulation.
- The ability to understand business problems and translate them into clear data models and pipelines.
- Strong problem‑solving skills and comfort working through ambiguity and evolving requirements.
- A cooperative mindset, curiosity to learn, and a desire to deliver meaningful business outcomes through data.

Bonus points

- Experience working with a modern cloud data warehouse such as Snowflake.
- Exposure to AWS data services such as S3, Glue, or Lambda.
- Exposure to Data Orchestration platforms like Airflow or Dagster.
- Familiarity with MLOps concepts or tools such as SageMaker.
- Experience working with business stakeholders or supporting business‑facing analytics and reporting.

Our People Experience

We empower everyone at Airtasker to realise the full value of their skills,



and we’re lucky that the mission behind our marketplace is one we get to live inside the business too. We see everyone as an individual, and we’re proud of the collaborative, diverse and high performing culture we’ve built together. From growth and learning to connection, reward and wellbeing, we keep creating programs so you can bring your whole self to life at Airtasker. Here’s a taste of what’s on offer.

Thriving

- Hybrid working – we come together in our Sydney office on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and for the rest of the week you choose whether to work from the office or from home, whichever helps you do your best work.
- Airtime - meeting-light Fridays that give you dedicated space for deep, focused work, while staying online and responsive as usual.
- Recharge day – each quarter we have a company‑wide Recharge Day, equivalent to 4 additional days of leave per year. It’s a day for everyone when the world can wait and self‑care takes centre stage.
- Wellbeing support – our Employee Assistance Program provides confidential access for our people to GPs, dieticians, counselling and mental health specialists, providing essential support whenever needed.
- Airpowerment Fund – we provide a $200 allowance to spend on anything that supports your health & wellbeing.
- Tasty Tuesdays – enjoy a free, catered lunch on us every Tuesday when you're in the office.

Rewarding

- Airtasker credits – it’s a great feeling to get things done. Even greater when you get $1000 worth of credits every year to help you check off your to‑do list and connect with our community of Taskers.
- Fair and equitable pay – this is a core commitment to our people. Every yea

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