Senior Data Engineer (GKT Team)

Semrush is a brand visibility platform, empowering marketers to command their online presence and create measurable impact. We unify SEO authority and AI visibility, so brands are found, cited, and chosen everywhere search happens. That’s how Semrush gained the trust of over 28 million users—from scaling startups to Fortune 500 companies.

About the role

• Lead the Design and development of scalable data pipelines and infrastructure

• Optimize the performance of data systems and troubleshoot complex data issues

• Collaborate with data scientists to ensure data is structured and available for advanced analytics

• Ensure data security, privacy, and compliance with organizational policies

• Manage the integration of new data sources and ensure data quality.

• Continuously evaluate and adopt new technologies to improve data engineering practices

• Contribute to architecture decisions

About you

Move together. Raise the bar. Learn fast—grow faster. That’s the default. And here’s what else is needed to succeed in this role: 

• High level of proficiency in Python, SQL 

• Good knowledge of Linux and Unix Shell scripting

• Experience with GCP, or other cloud providers

• Experience with Airflow or similar workflow orchestration tools

• Experience with column and/or transactional databases

• Understanding of distributed systems and scalable data architectures

• Experience writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code

• Strong sense of delivery ownership, balancing speed of execution with adherence to established engineering standards, best practices, and quality requirements

• Shipping solutions efficiently without compromising code quality, reliability, or maintainability, even under tight timelines

• Actively driving alignment and collaboration across cross-functional teams 

Not required, but a plus

• Experience with ClickHouse

• Pipeline testing experience in Airflow (DAG validation, unit/integration testing)

• Expertise with containerisation and infrastructure-as-code (Docker, k8s, Terraform)

• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK)

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows

About the team

The GKT Team is creating an internal product: search query analytics. This is collecting, storing, and transmitting a huge amount of data for other teams across. Semrush. We handle roughly tens of billions of records every month. Working with us is a step towards development in BigData & DataMining.