Nebius

Senior Data Engineer

Nebius
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2 months ago
Remote, EMEA or Prague, CzechiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own the design, delivery, and operation of complex data pipelines, datasets, and platform components.
  • Translate business and analytical requirements into scalable data models, reliable data products, and technical plans.
  • Design and evolve data architecture, storage, processing, and orchestration patterns for large-scale workloads.
  • Improve data quality, observability, lineage, monitoring, alerting, and incident response for critical datasets and pipelines.
  • Investigate and resolve production performance, reliability, and data-correctness issues.
  • Build reusable tools, conventions, and automation to improve engineering productivity and reduce operational risk.
  • Collaborate with product teams and business stakeholders on data contracts, priorities, and success criteria.
  • Contribute to design reviews, technical decisions, trade-offs, and documentation.
  • Support and mentor engineers through reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation and improve the operational health of supported systems.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in data engineering, backend engineering, or a related role, or equivalent experience delivering and operating production data systems.
  • Proven ability to independently deliver complex data pipelines or data-platform capabilities from problem definition through production operation.
  • Strong Python and SQL skills, including maintainable production code and optimization of non-trivial queries.
  • Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow, Prefect, or Dagster.
  • Strong understanding of data modeling, analytical models, and data contracts for multiple consumers.
  • Solid knowledge of data architectures and storage systems, including processing and storage trade-offs.
  • Experience with testing, monitoring, data-quality validation, alerting, debugging, and incident resolution for reliable systems.
  • Ability to make technical decisions under ambiguity, explain trade-offs, and collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Preferred experience with real-time or event-driven data platforms and streaming technologies.
  • Preferred experience operating cloud-native services with Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Preferred familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform.
  • Preferred experience with data governance, access control, privacy, GDPR, or SOC 2 requirements.
  • Preferred experience with data observability and quality tools or frameworks such as Great Expectations.
  • Preferred experience improving engineering standards through shared libraries, platform tooling, technical documentation, or mentoring.
  • Coding interviews are part of the hiring process.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation.
  • Career growth and learning opportunities.
  • Flexibility and ownership.
  • Collaborative and innovative culture.
  • Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects.
  • International environment and talented teams.

Tech Stack

Categories

Data Engineering
Nebius

About Nebius

1,001-5,000 employees

Nebius builds a full-stack AI cloud offering GPU compute, storage, and tools for training and deploying ML models for startups, enterprises, and research labs. It sells consumption-based cloud infrastructure (IaaS/PaaS) and managed services tailored to generative AI workloads, including large-scale model training and inference. The company is headquartered in Amsterdam and operates as an independent provider.

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