Senior Data Acquisition Engineer — Hybrid (Santiago)

Checkr - Chile; Santiago; Hybrid; CLP 49,980,000 - 58,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning & development reimbursement

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Vacation extension

Job summary

Checkr - Chile is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Acquisition team to design, build, and operate scalable data pipelines powering background check data from hundreds of sources.

You will contribute to distributed systems and production-grade Python platforms, mentor teammates, and collaborate with engineers in Chile and the US. This role is hybrid in Santiago (12 days/month).

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a backend focus.
• Strong Python skills and production-grade code.
• Experience with distributed systems, APIs, or data pipelines.
• Experience with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS).

Responsibilities

• Lead the full development lifecycle for data platform features from design to production monitoring.
• Design and build new data acquisition platforms in Python focusing on reliability, scalability, and observability.
• Participate in architecture decisions, write design documents, and influence technical direction.
• Improve platform visibility through logging, metrics, and alerting using Datadog and OpenTelemetry.
• Mentor junior engineers, lead code reviews, and raise the engineering quality bar.
• Collaborate with Chilean and US engineers in async-first planning and execution.

Skills

Advanced English

Python

Distributed systems

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

On-call ownership

Bias for action

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

SQS

S3

RDS

Job description

Checkr - Chile is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Acquisition team to design, build, and operate scalable data pipelines powering background check data from hundreds of sources.

You will contribute to distributed systems and production-grade Python platforms, mentor teammates, and collaborate with engineers in Chile and the US. This role is hybrid in Santiago (12 days/month).