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Specialisms - Data Engineering - SaaS
In SaaS, the product runs on its own data. Re:Sourced recruits the data engineers who build the pipelines, warehouses and product-analytics foundations that let SaaS teams ship features and prove they actually worked.
The profile
The work sits close to the product: instrumented event pipelines, the warehouse or lakehouse the whole company queries, the data behind product analytics and experimentation, customer-facing in-product analytics, and increasingly the clean data layer that feeds AI features.
The differentiator is data engineering built for the product, events, experimentation and in-product analytics, not just internal BI reporting. Analytics-engineering rigour (dbt, tested models, documented metrics) is what separates a usable data platform from a swamp. Typical stack: dbt, Snowflake or Databricks, Airflow, and streaming.
Where they come from
The pools sit inside the product-led scale-ups (Canva, Atlassian, SafetyCulture, Deputy, Culture Amp) where data is a first-class part of the product. The reliable profile comes from analytics-engineering or product-data backgrounds and thinks in metrics, not just tables.
Senior data engineers in Sydney price at AUD 160-190k base, base only, 25th-75th percentile of accepted offers. Full bands in the Salary Guide 2026.
Common questions
They build the pipelines, warehouses and product-analytics foundations that let SaaS teams ship features and prove they actually worked.
Senior SaaS data engineers in Sydney run AUD 160-190k base, base only, 25th to 75th percentile of accepted offers.
The product runs on its own data. Reliable pipelines and product analytics are what let teams measure feature impact and drive the roadmap.
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30 minute working session. No fee until placement. Replacement inside 90 days.