Staff Data Engineer Remote AI-Ready Data Platform Lead

Joblet-AI; Dubai; Remote; AED 734,000 - 955,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Performance-based bonuses

Health insurance reimbursement

401(k) plan with company match

Remote-first workforce

Job summary

micro1 is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to architect and own our data platform in a remote-first environment. You will build the internal data warehouse, ingestion pipelines, and core data models, designing agent-ready datasets for AI-driven workflows.

You will lead data reliability and governance, enable self-service analytics for multiple teams, and mentor engineers while advancing scalable, production-grade data infrastructure across the company.

Qualifications

• Staff-level engineering expertise with hands-on production data platforms.
• Greenfield data platform design and implementation experience.
• Deep understanding of data warehouses, ETL/ELT, data modeling, orchestration, and distributed processing.
• Strong SQL and Python fundamentals for reliable data infrastructure.
• Experience with modern data technologies (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, dbt, Airflow, Dagster).
• Knowledge of data quality, lineage, observability, access controls, and production reliability.
• Experience designing analytics infrastructure for product insights and operational decisions.
• AI-native engineering habits: using AI coding agents and automating development tasks.
• Ability to balance scalability, simplicity, performance, and velocity.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Build data platform from zero: internal data warehouse, ingestion infra, ETL/ELT pipelines, core data models.
• Create agent-ready data foundations: well-documented datasets and interfaces for AI agents.
• Turn messy data into trusted sources of truth.
• Enable self-service analytics for engineering, product, and business teams.
• Own product analytics infrastructure: event tracking, instrumentation, data models, reporting foundations.
• Automate data operations: AI agents to accelerate development, validation, and monitoring.
• Establish reliability and scale: data quality, observability, governance, scalable patterns.
• Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data warehousing

ETL/ELT

Data modeling

Data pipelines

Analytics

AI coding agents

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

Databricks

dbt

Airflow

Dagster

Job description

micro1 is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to architect and own our data platform in a remote-first environment. You will build the internal data warehouse, ingestion pipelines, and core data models, designing agent-ready datasets for AI-driven workflows.

You will lead data reliability and governance, enable self-service analytics for multiple teams, and mentor engineers while advancing scalable, production-grade data infrastructure across the company.