Senior Streaming Data Engineer: Real-Time Pipelines

InnoTech; Porto; On-site; EUR 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health-focused mental health support

25 days vacation including specialDays

Petsitting partnerships

Job summary

InnoTech is seeking a Senior Streaming Data Engineer to design and deliver real-time data products, from ingestion to consumer APIs. You will build scalable pipelines with Flink and Kafka, and develop REST APIs and microservices on AWS.

You will ensure quality, observability, and continuous improvement across production systems. The role requires 7+ years of data engineering experience, fluency in English, and EU work eligibility.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional Data Engineering experience in real-time production systems.
• Hands-on with Apache Flink, Kafka, streaming architectures.
• Experience building REST APIs and AWS services (MSK/Kinesis/Lambda/S3/ECS/EKS).
• Knowledge of CI/CD, testing, monitoring and observability tools.
• Fluent English.
• CPLP nationality or EU work permit.

Responsibilities

• Designing and delivering end-to-end real-time data products, from data ingestion and stream processing to consumer-facing APIs.
• Building and operating scalable, resilient streaming and batch pipelines using Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, and event-driven architectures.
• Developing APIs, microservices, and streaming interfaces to ensure reliable and secure access to data products.
• Ensuring production readiness through data quality controls, observability, performance optimisation, and continuous service improvement.
• Driving technical excellence by defining engineering standards, reviewing solutions, leading technical discussions, and mentoring team members.

Skills

Apache Flink

Apache Kafka

Streaming architectures

REST APIs

OpenAPI specifications

AWS (MSK/Kinesis/Lambda/S3/ECS/EKS)

CI/CD / Observability

Fluent English

EU work permit / CPLP

Education

BSc or MSc in Computer Science/Engineering, IT, or related fields.

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

Job description

InnoTech is seeking a Senior Streaming Data Engineer to design and deliver real-time data products, from ingestion to consumer APIs. You will build scalable pipelines with Flink and Kafka, and develop REST APIs and microservices on AWS.

You will ensure quality, observability, and continuous improvement across production systems. The role requires 7+ years of data engineering experience, fluency in English, and EU work eligibility.