Staff Data Engineer
Robots and Pencils2 months ago
Remote, Argentina or Bogotá, ColombiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define data architecture and platform strategy across pipelines, warehouses, and data lakes.
- Build and optimize scalable batch and real-time data pipelines.
- Define and enforce data governance, quality, compliance, monitoring, logging, and alerting standards.
- Drive data platform modernization for performance, cost, scalability, reliability, and security.
- Design data contracts and event flows with backend, platform, and engineering teams.
- Lead data pipelines for production AI/ML systems, including embeddings, vector stores, RAG data preparation, feature stores, and training and inference data flows.
- Integrate data services with APIs, middleware, and third-party systems.
- Partner with leadership on data strategy and collaborate with engineering, analytics, AI, and product teams.
- Establish data engineering standards, make architectural decisions, and mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional data engineering experience and experience leading complex data platform initiatives.
- Strong systems architecture background and expertise in distributed data systems.
- Expert proficiency in Python, Scala, and SQL.
- Deep expertise with cloud-native data platforms, enterprise data warehousing, pipeline orchestration, and processing.
- Strong experience with streaming platforms and real-time processing such as Kafka, Kinesis, and Pub/Sub.
- Strong data modeling, data transformation, data quality, governance, and compliance experience.
- Strong experience with container orchestration and CI/CD for data systems.
- Experience building production AI/ML data pipelines, including embeddings, vector stores, RAG preparation, feature stores, and training and inference flows.
- Demonstrated technical leadership and mentoring experience across a team or organization.
- Strong stakeholder communication, problem-solving, judgment, and ability to navigate ambiguous technical and business challenges.
- Demonstrable daily use and expert knowledge of AI-forward coding tools such as Claude and Cursor.
- Experience with data mesh, data fabric, lakehouse architectures, or governance framework implementation is a plus.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Robots and Pencils
Robots & Pencils is an applied AI engineering firm that designs, builds, and runs production AI systems and agentic co-workers for enterprise operations, with a focus on AWS. The privately held company, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, provides consulting and implementation services spanning data readiness, cloud modernization, and AI enablement. It is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with delivery teams across the U.S., Canada, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.