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Snr. Data Engineer (Located in South Africa)

KnowBe4

Cape Town, South Africa

Engineering

Posted 23 minutes ago

midremote

Hiring context

✅ Verified open on Nov 13, 2026 · posted today

📈 62 open roles at KnowBe4 as of Nov 2, 2026: 5 security-specific, 53% remote, 6% show pay (-10 vs last week).

Job Description

KnowBe4 empowers the modern workforce to make smarter security decisions every day. Trusted by more than 70,000 organizations worldwide, KnowBe4 is the pioneer of digital workforce security, securing both AI agents and humans. The KnowBe4 Platform provides attack simulation and training, collaboration security, and agent security powered by AIDA (Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents) and a proprietary Risk Score. The platform leverages 15-years of behavioral data to combat advanced threats including social engineering, prompt injection, and shadow AI. By securing humans and agents, KnowBe4 leads the industry in workforce trust and defense.

Please submit your resume in English.

To learn more about our team and office culture in Cape Town, South Africa visit the following links. 
Careers Page: https://www.knowbe4.com/careers/locations/cape-town
Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.com/Location/KnowBe4-Cape-Town-Location-EI_IE969384.0,7_IL.8,17_IC2653748.htm
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/knowbe4/life/southafrica/

Snr. Data Engineer work closely with business stakeholders to understand their goals and identify data-driven strategies to achieve those goals. They design data modeling processes, create algorithms and predictive models to extract the insight the business needs and help analyze the data to increase the productivity and efficiency of the business.

Responsibilities:

  • Expertise working experience with programming  languages like Python, and SQL
  • Solid understanding of data lake, data warehousing and analytics
  • Research, design, and implement data modeling designs to solve complex problems
  • Communicate complex concepts and data pipelines to non-technical audiences through data visualizations
  • Identify opportunities and formulate data orchestration and data modeling projects to optimize business impact
  • Serve as a subject matter expert in data warehouse and analytics research, and adopt the new tooling and methodologies in Knowbe4

 Qualifications:

  • BS or equivalent plus 8 years experience
  • MS or equivalent plus 3 years experience
  • Ph.D. or equivalent plus 2 years experience

Our Fantastic Benefits

We offer company-wide bonuses based on monthly sales targets, employee referral bonuses, adoption assistance, tuition reimbursement, certification reimbursement, and certification completion bonuses - all in a modern, high-tech, and fun work environment. For more details about our benefits in each office location, please visit www.knowbe4.com/careers/benefits.

Note: An applicant assessment and background check may be part of your hiring procedure.

Individuals seeking employment at KnowBe4 are considered without prejudice to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please visit www.knowbe4.com/careers/request-accommodation.

No recruitment agencies, please.

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