Senior Data Engineer @ Augustus

Senior Data Engineer

Location

Berlin

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

On-site

Department

Engineering

Compensation

€75K – €150K • Offers Equity

Compensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity, and benefits. Total compensation for this position will be determined by each individual’s relevant qualifications, work experience and skills.

Overview Application

Few people get to build a bank from scratch. Even fewer get to build one at a moment when banking itself is being reinvented.

The dollar is the best product in the history of the world, with practically infinite global demand, but distribution is broken. Global clearing runs on legacy banks that are closed 115 days a year, built for humans and take two days to settle. Augustus is the update to the internet era. We received conditional approval from the OCC to charter America’s first stablecoin-native clearing bank that is always open, made for machines, at the speed of compute.

We are a group of operators, unicorn early employees, ex-founders and people who walked away from degrees because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We're backed with $40M from Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, Creandum and founders of Ramp, Deel and Circle.

We are regulated in Europe and live with Euro and Stablecoin clearing today. Now, we are building the US team from the ground up, while continuing to grow rapidly in Europe.

The Role

You are the first data hire. You own everything - infrastructure, strategy, architecture - and you bring it from 0 to 1. There is no existing stack and no legacy decisions. You decide what great looks like and you build it.

Augustus is building the Dark Bank - a bank run by agents. Our infrastructure team (DevOps, Security, Data) builds the foundation for that. You design and run the data layer the entire company relies on. Pipelines, warehouse, data models, analytics, real-time insights end to end. You make sure data is accurate, fast, and trustworthy for humans and agents alike. You build the primitives behind intelligent financial operations and give the company the visibility to make hard calls with confidence.

You work across engineering, product, and business to shape how data moves. You are trusted with all decisions you take.

Your First Six Months

In your first 6 months, you'll own the full arc from empty slate to production-grade data infrastructure:

Month 1-2: You embed yourself across the company. You talk to every team, map every data source, and understand how decisions are made today. You design the foundational data infrastructure that enables all aspects of how data needs to be used in the company. You implement the v0 of this infrastructure.
**Month 3-4:**Ingestion pipelines, core data models, and semantic layer are in place. Anyone in the company is enabled to query any data they want. You design the security framework for how humans and agents access data - fine-grained, auditable, regulator-ready.
Month 5-6: The company runs on the infrastructure you built. Every team embeds data into their daily work. Agents query data safely. You've built something that's easy to use and hard to break.

Who Will Thrive At Augustus

We believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. The people who succeed here share the following traits:

Relentless: You can't leave something broken. You don't stop because it got hard or because no one is watching.
Set The Bar: You're harder on yourself than anyone else would be. You don't need external accountability to care about quality.
Shape The Game: You don't wait for a playbook and you don't need one. You walk into genuinely new territory and figure it out. You move before anyone asked you to.
Systems First: You don't solve problems by adding people or effort. You build systems that make the problem smaller. Your first instinct is to automate, not to handle it manually.

This role is for you if:

You've been waiting for the chance to build a data stack from 0 to 1 and not inherit someone else's mess.
You get more energy from talking to people across the company than sitting alone at your computer.
You're excited about designing data access for AI agents, not just humans.
You want to work at a company where your infrastructure decisions directly shape the product.
You'd rather own the whole problem than have a narrow lane.

This is not for you if:

You need a well-defined scope handed to you on day one.
You prefer working in isolation and shipping quietly.
You think "data engineer" means writing SQL and waiting for requirements.
You need a large team around you to be effective.
You're not comfortable working under banking-grade regulatory scrutiny.

Hard Requirements

3+ years building data infrastructure with tooling such as AWS/GCP/Azure, Snowflake/ClickHouse/Redshift, orchestration, pipelines.
Experience in a heavily regulated industry - banking, fintech, payments. You know what it means to build data systems under regulatory scrutiny.
Based in Berlin or willing to relocate - this is an in-person role. We build together.

What We Offer

Career Growth: You will be given more responsibility and pushed to grow faster than ever before.
Network: Your peers are brilliant, highly motivated people. These people will be foundational in your future opportunities.
Real Participation: Employees are shareholders. You will think and act like an owner.
Perks & Benefits: Relocation support, visa support, the latest Apple gear (MacBook + AirPods), lunch benefit, gym benefit, a beautiful office in the heart of the city, 4x on-/offsites per year, and an annual development budget.
**Health & Insurance:**Our US team receives comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans. We are offering 401(k) retirement plans.

Augustus is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive and where different viewpoints and experiences are valued and respected. Augustus will consider all applications for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, religious beliefs, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, disability, age, parental or veteran status.

Compensation Range: €75K - €150K

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