Data Engineer
Northsea Grid · Energy and grid balancing
Build the pipelines that turn half a million telemetry points a minute into something a trader can look at.
Data engineeringMid (2–5 yrs)Fully remotePermanentSponsors visas
Salary band
£65,000 – £82,000
- Location
- Edinburgh
- Pattern
- Fully remote
- Posted
- 18 Aug 2026 (16d ago)
- Process
- 3 stages, listed below
No account needed. One of us reads it before anything reaches the company.
The work
Battery telemetry arrives constantly and is useless raw. This role owns everything between the meter and the dashboard.
Worth knowing
- Fully remote within the UK, with a quarterly week in Edinburgh.
- The existing pipeline is Airflow and honest about its age.
Must have
- Production pipelines you have had to debug at 3am
- SQL that goes beyond joins
- Python
Nice to have
- Time-series compression
- dbt at scale
Interview process
If the client adds a stage after you’ve started, we’ll tell you, and you can withdraw.
- 01
Intro call
30 minTheir questions and yours. No competency framework.
- 02
Technical conversation
60 minWalk through something you built. No live coding.
- 03
Team and offer
45 minMeet the people you would work with, talk numbers.
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