Sr. Data Engineer
RemoteBrazil
Job Summary
Act as a senior technical reference in Data Engineering, setting data modeling and architectural standards and best practices for data pipelines at scale. Run high-impact data engineering initiatives across multiple domains, partnering with Product, Finance, Engineering, and other business teams to translate strategic needs into robust data solutions. Balance build vs. buy decisions to maximize impact and efficiency in product analytics and infrastructure while managing technical debt to ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability. This fully remote role is based in Brasilia Standard Time, with compensation in BRL for a CLT contract employee. You will collaborate closely with distributed teams across the U.S. and Brazil to support company data-driven decision-making.
Required Qualifications
- Proven experience as a senior data engineer
- hands-on ownership of large-scale data pipelines
- complex data architectures
- Strong technical judgment
- problem-solving skills
- attention to detail
- drive to make processes more efficient
- Strong understanding of modern data engineering best practices
- data lakes
- lakehouse architectures
- ETL/ELT approaches
- Experience designing and operating cloud-native data platforms on AWS
- orchestration
- storage
- compute
- IAM
- ability to adapt across services
- Strong experience with orchestration and workflow tools
- Airflow
- Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code principles
- Terraform
- Experience building and operating batch and streaming data systems
- Kafka
- Kinesis
- Spark Streaming
- Strong communication skills
- ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- distributed, international environment
- This is a fully remote role based in Brazil
- collaborate closely with teams across the U.S. and Brazil
- Your work will follow Brasilia Standard Time
- hired as a CLT contract employee
- compensation in BRL
Desired Qualifications
- DBT
- metadata/catalog tools
- DMS
- AppFlow
- SQS/SNS
- Data Mesh
- domain-driven data
- Experience delivering production-grade software systems
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