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Staff Data Engineer (Remote in Brazil)
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About this role
Role overview
A staff data engineer is sought to act as a technical lead and architectural pillar for a global data platform team. The role partners with engineering management and stakeholders to shape long-term architecture for an event-driven platform, establish agentic AI frameworks, and set technical direction. The position is fully remote within Brazil.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the principal data engineering manager to design and plan the platform's core architecture, choosing tools, technologies, and system patterns. - Design systems and security guardrails that enable agentic customer experiences while preventing data leakage across multi-tenant environments. - Formulate data orchestration and modeling strategies that maximize business impact, enforcing querying best practices and architectural standards. - Collaborate with information security, SRE, and executive leadership to align platform initiatives with company-wide compliance, security, and business goals. - Guide senior engineers on complex design patterns, code quality, and adoption of modern data platform tooling.
Requirements
- Around 5+ years of experience in data platform architecture and data engineering, with a track record of driving technical strategy and system design. - Expert proficiency in Python, SQL, PySpark, and AWS data platform services. - Deep background designing event-driven architectures operating at thousands of events per second. - Practical knowledge or strong exposure to agentic AI workflows, LLM integration, and AI safety guardrails. - Proven ability to translate complex business needs into data architecture and communicate technical roadmaps to non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits and work setup
Fully remote within Brazil with resume submitted in English. Benefits include company-wide bonuses tied to monthly sales targets, employee referral bonuses, adoption assistance, tuition reimbursement, certification reimbursement, and certification completion bonuses. An applicant assessment and background check are part of the hiring process.