Staff Data Engineer
Robots and Pencils9 hours ago
Lviv, UkraineStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define data architecture and platform strategy across data pipelines, warehouses, and data lakes.
- Build and optimize scalable batch and real-time data pipelines.
- Define and enforce data governance, quality, compliance, and data engineering standards.
- Build monitoring, logging, and alerting for data pipelines and services.
- 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/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.
- Make high-stakes 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 distributed-data-systems architecture background and expertise in cloud-native data platforms and enterprise data warehousing.
- Expert proficiency in Python, Scala, and SQL.
- Strong expertise in data pipeline orchestration, processing, streaming platforms, and real-time data processing, including Kafka, Kinesis, or Pub/Sub.
- Strong data modeling, data transformation, data quality, governance, and compliance experience.
- Experience with container orchestration and CI/CD for data systems.
- Strong experience building production AI/ML data pipelines involving embeddings, vector stores, RAG data preparation, feature stores, and training/inference data 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.
- Day-to-day 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.
Benefits
- 20 days of paid vacation.
- 15 days of unpaid vacation.
- All official public holidays off.
- 5 paid sick days without a doctor's certificate.
- Medical insurance.
- Military draft deferment (reservation) support.
- Cooperation under a gig-contract.
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.