Remote Data Platform Engineer — Learn & Equity

Primer; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Company retreat

Uncapped vacation

Home office stipend

Learning budget

Stock options

Job summary

Primer is hiring a software engineer who thrives at the intersection of data, software and infrastructure. You will build internal tools, pipelines, and APIs that support analytics and machine learning, collaborating closely with product and engineering to make data infrastructure seamless and reliable.

You will own batch and streaming pipelines, design data models in dbt, and move data across Snowflake, CockroachDB, DynamoDB and Elasticsearch.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals: tested, reviewed code with clean abstractions.

Responsibilities

• Own batch and streaming pipelines, including CDC feeds from operational databases into Snowflake, and make them reliable.
• Design internal tools and APIs for analytics, product features and machine learning.
• Model and transform data in dbt so the warehouse is trusted as truth.
• Decide data storage/movement across CockroachDB, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch and Snowflake.
• Ship pipelines with tests, CI/CD, containers, and observability.
• Lead multi-component data projects from scoping to rollout with the team.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Cloud infra

System design

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Primer is hiring a software engineer who thrives at the intersection of data, software and infrastructure. You will build internal tools, pipelines, and APIs that support analytics and machine learning, collaborating closely with product and engineering to make data infrastructure seamless and reliable.

You will own batch and streaming pipelines, design data models in dbt, and move data across Snowflake, CockroachDB, DynamoDB and Elasticsearch.