Data Engineer II: Scalable Ingestion & Data Platforms

Kpler; Colombia; On-site; COP 217,277,000 - 341,435,000; Full time

Job summary

Kpler is seeking a Data Engineer II in our Engineering Platform team to own the full lifecycle of data ingestion pipelines powering Snowflake, ClickHouse, and client delivery channels. You will build scalable ingestion frameworks from Kafka, S3 and Iceberg using Java, Python and Airflow, ensuring high reliability and observability across our global product ecosystem.

Collaborate with Cloud Platform, Product, and client teams, drive on-call readiness, code reviews, and documentation to uplift

Qualifications

• Data ingestion & engineering experience: 3+ years building/operating production pipelines (batch/streaming) with Kafka, S3, Iceberg or Airflow.
• Proficient in Java and Python with strong SQL, data modeling and cloud data warehouse experience (Snowflake).
• Production cloud services on AWS with monitoring/observability, performance tuning, and Kubernetes (GitOps/CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain data ingestion pipelines using Java/Python and Airflow powering Snowflake/ClickHouse.
• Drive reliability: monitoring, alerts, reduce pipeline failures, on-call readiness.

Skills

Kafka

S3

Iceberg

Airflow

Java

Python

SQL

Snowflake

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

GitOps

Data Engineering

Job description

Kpler is seeking a Data Engineer II in our Engineering Platform team to own the full lifecycle of data ingestion pipelines powering Snowflake, ClickHouse, and client delivery channels. You will build scalable ingestion frameworks from Kafka, S3 and Iceberg using Java, Python and Airflow, ensuring high reliability and observability across our global product ecosystem.

Collaborate with Cloud Platform, Product, and client teams, drive on-call readiness, code reviews, and documentation to uplift