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1 to 50 Employees · Troy, US
Hiring: Engineering
What employees say
+ 1) Supportive colleagues and a collaborative work culture. 2) Opportunities to learn and work on diverse projects. 3) Management is approachable and open to feedback. 4) Encourages
− No major concerns at this time. The company is continuously improving and providing a positive work environment.
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Interview experience · Manager
It was really fantastic. They really fast to drive the process and interesting. Also, the way they coordinated the interview was interesting. I will strongly vouch for their interview process
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Overview
HEAD OF DATA ENGINEERING [Hands-On Builder]
Responsibilities
- 7-10 Years MAX | Chennai - Hybrid
- Rock-solid Data Engineering and Analytics skills with real AI engineering experience. You build, you don't delegate.
- Powerful, career-defining growth and cool tech skills for life - including Ontology & Graph DB, Forward Deployed Engineer [FDE] skills, Headless Architecture Engineering, and production AI.
Qualifications
- About Giggso:
- Giggso is a Data & AI Engineering transformation company. We don't do body-shopping. We build modern data and AI foundations for serious companies.
- We are looking for engineers who are at an inflection point in their career and want to 10x their growth.
- Data Core: Expert SQL / PL/SQL + Deep RDBMS Internal Architecture knowledge [Oracle or any RDBMS]. You understand execution plans, indexing, partitioning, storage engines.
- Modern Stack: Python [for Data + AI], Business Intelligence, Dialogflow CX / ES.
- AI & Next-Gen DB: Proven production experience with Vector Databases, Sparse Indexes, RAG pipelines, Embeddings.[pgvector][Oracle graph n autonomous][cosmos db etc]
- Cloud-Native: Hyperscaler experience is a must. Strong preference for OCI or GCP stack: BigQuery, BigTable, Firebase / Firestore.
- Master's degree preferred.
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Last updated 11 October 2026
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