Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure & Acquisition - Busan, South Korea

Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure & Acquisition - Busan, South Korea

Speechify is seeking a data-focused software engineer to design, build, and operate the data pipelines and infrastructure that power our products. This on-site role is based in Busan, South Korea.

Overview

As part of the Data Infrastructure & Acquisition team, you will design and maintain data ingestion pipelines, data lakes/warehouses, and supporting tooling to ensure scalable, high-quality data for experiments and product features.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain data ingestion pipelines to acquire and process data from multiple sources.
• Build and maintain data infrastructure (data lake/warehouse, metadata catalog, streaming pipelines) to support analytics and product features.
• Ensure data quality, provenance, governance, and security across data platforms.
• Optimize data models and storage for performance and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with data science, analytics, and platform teams to meet data needs.
• Monitor reliability, performance, and cost; document architectures and write tests.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in data engineering or data infrastructure.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.
• Experience with data warehousing and ETL/ELT processes (e.g., BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift).
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and data orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, etc.).
• Familiarity with streaming data and batch processing; knowledge of data governance, privacy, and security best practices.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment.

Nice-to-have

• Experience with data privacy regulations and governance.
• Familiarity with ML/AI data pipelines or NLP data.

Location

Busan, South Korea (On-site)

What Speechify offers

• Competitive compensation
• Health benefits
• Flexible, collaborative work culture
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge speech AI products