Senior Data Engineer (remote, Spain)
Qualifyze GmbH4 months ago
Remote, SpainSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, maintain, and test scalable data pipelines and data products.
- Manage data features end to end, including operational schema design, ingestion, transformation, and delivery of analytical datasets.
- Contribute to data-platform architecture and evaluate technical trade-offs.
- Establish and improve standards for data modeling, data quality, testing, and code review.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders to create well-scoped data solutions.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve pipeline incidents while improving observability and reliability.
- Share knowledge and mentor engineers through pairing and code reviews.
Requirements
- Strong Python proficiency for building robust ETL/ELT pipelines, reusable modules, testing, and observability.
- Strong SQL skills with PostgreSQL, including complex queries, performance tuning, indexing, and execution-plan analysis for OLTP and OLAP workloads.
- Hands-on experience building, testing, and documenting dbt models, ideally in a layered or medallion structure.
- Experience with Dagster or similar orchestrators such as Airflow, including production scheduling, monitoring, and failure handling.
- Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes for running data services and batch jobs in production.
- Solid understanding of data modeling, including dimensional modeling and operational versus analytical schema trade-offs.
- Preferred experience with AWS services including S3, EKS, and Secrets Manager.
- Preferred experience with database schema migration tools such as Liquibase or with data contracts.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation reviewed annually.
- Country-specific vacation package that increases with tenure.
- Country-specific benefits including private healthcare, fitness, and meal allowances.
- Annual personal development budget.
- Hybrid working mode with up to three months per year working from anywhere.
- Company-provided equipment and tools.
- Annual in-person company event and celebration in Europe.
- Remote role based in Spain.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Qualifyze GmbH
Qualifyze builds a cloud platform and audit service that help life-sciences companies manage GxP supplier compliance, access audit reports, and monitor supply-chain risk. It monetizes through subscriptions and paid audits, connecting customers with a global network of auditors and analytics on supplier performance. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Frankfurt, it serves 1,500+ pharmaceutical and healthcare customers and has conducted 4,500+ audits across 85+ countries.