Data Engineer: Build Scalable Pipelines & Lakehouse

Saal.ai; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Saal.ai in Abu Dhabi designs, builds, and operates scalable data platforms to enable analytics and decision-making. As a Data Engineer or Big Data Engineer, you will prototype, deliver, and run reliable data pipelines across batch and real-time use cases, collaborating with product, analytics, and engineering teams.

You will implement ingestion, storage, and data models, ensure observability, data quality, and governance, and work with technologies like NiFi, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required or preferred in CS/SE.
• 3-5 years in data engineering or big data roles.
• Experience with data ingestion, storage, and modeling.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable ingestion, storage, and management systems.
• Develop batch and streaming pipelines with NiFi, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow.
• Implement data models and CDC for analytics and AI.
• Ensure pipelines are observable, tested, and compliant.
• Collaborate with product, analytics, and engineering teams.
• Protect data security and governance per policies.

Skills

Python

SQL

Scala/Java

Data modeling

Cloud data engineering

Apache NiFi

Kafka

Spark

Airflow

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Apache NiFi

Kafka

Spark

Flink

Airflow

Docker

Kubernetes

Debezium

MinIO/S3

Parquet

Job description

Saal.ai in Abu Dhabi designs, builds, and operates scalable data platforms to enable analytics and decision-making. As a Data Engineer or Big Data Engineer, you will prototype, deliver, and run reliable data pipelines across batch and real-time use cases, collaborating with product, analytics, and engineering teams.

You will implement ingestion, storage, and data models, ensure observability, data quality, and governance, and work with technologies like NiFi, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow, and