Senior Data Platform & DB Engineer for Real-Time Robotics

Velenosi&Meredith; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Velenosi&Meredith is seeking a Senior Database Developer / Data Platform Engineer to design and evolve the data foundation for an Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) platform. You will focus on database architecture, data modelling, operational data, analytics, performance, and scalability.

Responsibilities include designing data models for orders, robot states, missions, routes, events, and telemetry; building scalable database structures; optimizing queries and data lifecycle; and supporting

Qualifications

• Strong SQL and database engineering experience.
• Excellent knowledge of relational database design, ideally PostgreSQL.
• Strong understanding of schema design, indexing, transactions, constraints, migrations, and query optimization.
• Experience designing data models for operational and production systems.
• Understanding of real-time/near-real-time data and concurrency.
• Experience with data quality, integrity, auditability, and historical data.
• Strong software engineering practices: Git, testing, CI/CD.
• Experience with APIs and backend integration.
• Docker/Linux experience.
• Python, Rust, or another backend language is a strong advantage.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve data models for orders, robot states, missions, routes, events, telemetry, configuration, and execution history.
• Build reliable, scalable database structures for real-time and analytical use cases.
• Optimize queries, indexing, partitioning, migrations, and data lifecycle management.
• Support backend services, algorithms, dashboards, analytics, and reporting.
• Develop analytics-ready datasets and KPI structures.
• Ensure data quality, consistency, auditability, and traceability.
• Work with Backend, Algorithm, Robotics, Frontend, DevOps, QA, and Product teams.
• Support database reliability, monitoring, backups, and production performance.

Skills

SQL

Database engineering

Relational DB design

Schema design

Query optimization

Data modeling

Real-time data

Backend APIs

Git CI/CD

Testing

Docker

Linux

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

TimescaleDB / InfluxDB / Redis / Kafka

MQTT

Tools

Docker

Linux

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

TimescaleDB

InfluxDB

Redis

Kafka

NATS

MQTT

Job description

Velenosi&Meredith is seeking a Senior Database Developer / Data Platform Engineer to design and evolve the data foundation for an Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) platform. You will focus on database architecture, data modelling, operational data, analytics, performance, and scalability.

Responsibilities include designing data models for orders, robot states, missions, routes, events, and telemetry; building scalable database structures; optimizing queries and data lifecycle; and supporting