Senior Data Acquisition Platform Engineer – Hybrid (Santiago)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model in Santiago

Job summary

Checkr, a US-based company building a data platform for reliable background checks, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Acquisition team in Santiago. You will design, build, and operate data pipelines across government and third‑party sources.

You will mentor engineers and drive observability with Datadog/OpenTelemetry, collaborating with teams in Chile and the US to deliver scalable, production‑grade Python platforms.

Qualifications

• Advanced English communication skills — written and verbal.
• Available to work in a hybrid format in Santiago office (12 days per month).
• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong backend focus.
• Strong Python skills (or ruby) — write idiomatic, well-tested production-grade Python.
• Experience building or maintaining distributed systems, APIs, or data pipelines.
• Experience with containerized deployments — Docker, Kubernetes / EKS.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms — AWS preferred (ECS, SQS, S3, RDS).
• Strong ownership mindset: participate in on-call rotations and end-to-end accountability.
• A-player mindset with a bias for action: raise the bar and deliver outcomes.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Advanced English

Backend development

Python

Distributed systems

On-call ownership

Code reviews

Mentoring

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Job description

Checkr, a US-based company building a data platform for reliable background checks, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Acquisition team in Santiago. You will design, build, and operate data pipelines across government and third‑party sources.

You will mentor engineers and drive observability with Datadog/OpenTelemetry, collaborating with teams in Chile and the US to deliver scalable, production‑grade Python platforms.