Senior Data Platform Engineer - AI Pipelines (Remote Europe)

protonai; USA; Remote; USD 150.000 - 210.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

protonai is seeking a senior data engineer to own the data foundation across products and AI features. You will oversee ingestion, transformation, and serving layers, ensuring reliable data for downstream teams, with hands-on architecture and production ownership.

You will collaborate with backend, AI, product, and customer IT teams to define robust data contracts, validate data quality, and drive platform evolution. This role offers remote work with overlap across time zones.

Qualifikationen

• Seven+ years of hands-on data engineering with production pipelines and models serving real users at scale.
• Strong programming and SQL skills, including data modeling for analytical and transactional use cases.
• Experience building orchestrated ingestion or ELT pipelines from messy upstream sources, using a cloud warehouse and major cloud platform.
• Practical experience with file, event or streaming, and API sources.
• Ability to diagnose query and pipeline performance issues and trace data correctness problems to their cause.
• Understanding of partial loads, late or out-of-order data, schema drift, idempotency, and backfills.
• Daily experience using agentic coding tools to deliver work, with the judgment to verify results and explain technical decisions.
• Clear communication and English proficiency at C1 or above.

Aufgaben

• Design and operate ingestion from files, events, and APIs, along with raw, refined, and curated data layers and the serving layer.
• Build and maintain reliable ingestion and transformation workflows using orchestration tools and a cloud data warehouse.
• Reconcile inconsistent source data and establish validation, lineage, backfill, incremental-load, and idempotency practices.
• Improve the data platform's architecture, tooling, scale, and source coverage.
• Use coding agents to plan and implement work, review their output, and ensure production quality.
• Partner with backend, AI, product, and sometimes customer IT teams to define dependable data contracts.

Kenntnisse

Programming

SQL

Data modeling

ELT pipelines

Cloud data warehouse

Ingestion workflows

Streaming data

API sources

Data quality debugging

English communication

Jobbeschreibung

protonai is seeking a senior data engineer to own the data foundation across products and AI features. You will oversee ingestion, transformation, and serving layers, ensuring reliable data for downstream teams, with hands-on architecture and production ownership.

You will collaborate with backend, AI, product, and customer IT teams to define robust data contracts, validate data quality, and drive platform evolution. This role offers remote work with overlap across time zones.