Senior Data Engineer — Real-Time Pipelines (Remote Brazil)

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Monthly sales bonuses

Employee referral bonuses

Adoption assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Certification reimbursement

Certification completion bonuses

Job summary

KnowBe4 is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to build and maintain a high-scale, near real-time data platform in a remote Brazil-based role. You will support expanding global product and service teams, working across US time zones with high-throughput event streams and modern data platforms.

You will design core infrastructure, implement scalable data models, and collaborate with product, SRE, and InfoSec to ensure data quality and security.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of hands-on data engineering experience building production data platforms.
• Strong proficiency with Python, SQL, and PySpark.
• Solid practical experience with AWS cloud services and Lakehouse/Data Lake fundamentals.
• Familiarity with high-throughput event-based data streaming and real-time processing.
• Clear verbal and written English communication skills to collaborate across international teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the data platform's core infrastructure and tooling, including pipelines, orchestration, and warehousing.
• Implement scalable data modeling designs and orchestration logic to transform raw event streams into optimized data models for downstream business consumption.
• Extend core data platform toolsets and manage the release, monitoring, and maintenance of production data pipelines.
• Partner directly with upstream product teams generating data, downstream consumers, SRE/Infrastructure, and InfoSec to ensure data quality, security, and pipeline compliance.
• Utilize agentic AI tooling in daily workflows to accelerate development, improve context management, and write maintainable code.

Skills

Python

SQL

PySpark

English communication

Tools

AWS

Lakehouse/Data Lake

Job description

KnowBe4 is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to build and maintain a high-scale, near real-time data platform in a remote Brazil-based role. You will support expanding global product and service teams, working across US time zones with high-throughput event streams and modern data platforms.

You will design core infrastructure, implement scalable data models, and collaborate with product, SRE, and InfoSec to ensure data quality and security.