Lead Data Engineer

Details

• Full Time · Senior Level
• Location: Waterloo, ON (remote OK)
• Industry: IT & Software
• Posted November 2, 2026

About this role

Sidian is a Waterloo startup (backed by a US$1M pre-seed round) building software that connects the drawings, models and documents inside engineering firms.

You'll own the ingestion pipelines for BIM models, PDF drawings, spreadsheets and email, design the company knowledge graph, and build the retrieval and reasoning systems on top of it. You'll work directly with customers to turn messy engineering workflows into dependable product.

You bring: strong Python data engineering; hands-on graph database work (Neo4j/Cypher); production pipelines with tools like Spark, Databricks and Parquet; and experience parsing difficult file formats. Side projects, open source or startup experience count for a lot.

Hybrid in Waterloo. Compensation to be discussed, plus equity. Apply by email to msains@sidian.ai, or see the full posting.

The business

• Sidian — A member business of the Punjabi Chamber of Commerce

How to apply

Members of the Punjabi Chamber of Commerce apply through the PCC Jobs Board, and Sidian hears that they came through the Chamber.

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