Senior Data Platform Engineer — Real-Time DB Architect

Velenosi&Meredith; Oeiras; 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 platform. The role combines database architecture, data modelling, and analytics to support real-time and production systems.

You'll build scalable data models for orders, robot states, missions, and telemetry, optimize performance, and ensure data quality.

Qualifications

• Strong SQL and database engineering experience.
• Excellent knowledge of relational database design, ideally PostgreSQL.
• 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

PostgreSQL

Schema design

Indexing

Transactions

Migrations

Query optimization

Data modeling

Real-time data

Data quality

Git

Testing

CI/CD

APIs

Docker

Linux

Python

Rust

Tools

TimescaleDB

InfluxDB

Redis

Kafka

NATS

MQTT

Kubernetes

Cloud-native

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 platform. The role combines database architecture, data modelling, and analytics to support real-time and production systems.

You'll build scalable data models for orders, robot states, missions, and telemetry, optimize performance, and ensure data quality.