[Hiring] Data Engineer @ Exaqube — Maritime AI startup, Chennai
We're a maritime AI company based in Chennai building document-intelligence and decision products for shipping lines (customers across MEA, India and APAC). Adding [1–2] data engineers to the team.
What you'd own:
- Building and running data pipelines on Databricks — PySpark, Delta Lake, job orchestration
- Designing and maintaining the lakehouse / Unity Catalog layer
- Pipeline performance and cost work — cluster sizing, Photon-vs-classic calls, DBU governance
- Ingesting and modelling messy real-world operational data into clean, queryable datasets
You're likely a fit if:
- Hands-on Databricks across multiple production projects — PySpark, Delta Lake, pipelines you owned end to end
- 3+ years in data engineering
- Comfortable being the person the client relies on for Databricks decisions
- Bonus: Databricks certification, streaming/Auto Loader experience, logistics domain exposure
Details:
- Location: Chennai
- Comp: ₹15–30 LPA depending on experience
- Type: Full-time with Exaqube
- You'd join a small, senior data engineering team
To apply: Comment or DM with a short note on a Databricks pipeline you've built and what was genuinely hard about it. If you'd rather not share publicly, here's a quick form instead: Data Engineer - Chennai – Fill out form
company url: https://www.exaqube.com
Happy to answer questions in the thread.