Global Head of Data Engineering
ExpressVPN Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Software Development · 201-500 employees
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About the role
You will lead, coach, and grow a global team of data engineers while setting engineering standards and priorities. Additionally, you will own the platform's architecture for data ingestion, enrichment, and the creation of a single source of truth for metrics.
What they look for
Requirements
The role requires 8+ years of experience in data or analytics engineering with at least 3 years in a leadership capacity. Candidates must possess strong hands-on skills in SQL, Python, and cloud-based data warehousing, along with experience in managing end-to-end platform migrations.
Full description
About Kape Technologies
Kape is a cybersecurity company focused on helping everyone have a better digital experience with greater privacy and protection. With over 1,000 experienced individuals across ten global locations, the Kape team is guided by a single mission: to create a more secure and safe world.
The Role
If you want to lead data engineering for a global, AI-first company, this is a rare opportunity. Kape is behind ExpressVPN and other privacy brands, and our data platform is at the core of how the company works, serving analysts, engineering teams, leadership and a growing set of AI tools.
As Global Head of Data Engineering, you'll start hands-on, then build and lead a team across several countries, with a real say in where the platform goes next. You will:
- Write SQL, Python and pipelines yourself in your first months
- Lead, coach and grow a team of data engineers across several countries
- Set team priorities and plan delivery, and own hiring and onboarding
- Own the platform's architecture for ingestion, anonymization and enrichment of data, and decide what we keep, change or replace
- Set up a single source of truth: shared metric definitions, building on our semantic layer, that dashboards and AI tools both use
- Set the engineering standards: testing, code review, CI/CD, documentation and alerting
- Partner with finance, marketing, product and engineering to turn business needs into data solutions
Our stack today: Python, SQL, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Airflow, dbt, AWS, Kafka, Terraform, Tableau and Streamlit. You decide what stays.
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years in data engineering or analytics engineering, including 3+ years leading a team
- You have led a data platform migration or rebuild end to end, with live dashboards and users depending on it
- Strong hands-on SQL and Python, and you still write code
- Deep experience with data modeling, reliable pipelines (Airflow, dbt or similar) and cloud warehouses, ideally on AWS
- You use AI tools daily and know where not to trust them
- Clear communication with engineers and non-technical leaders alike
Bonus: semantic layers or data contracts, subscription-business data (renewals, churn, LTV), Terraform, and data privacy in production systems.
