Mid-level Data Engineer role on the Data Platform team at VTEX, responsible for designing, building, and evolving the data infrastructure that supports analytics, AI, and machine learning. The position focuses on end-to-end ownership of features, extensive use of AI for scaling impact, clear technical specification writing, and participation in on-call rotations.
Data Engineer, Data Platform at VTEX
Remote - Brazil
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Skills
- Strong engineering foundation
- Fast learner with sharp problem-solving instincts
- Experience with modern data architectures (data warehouses, data lakes, data lakehouses)
- Proficient in Python and its data-processing ecosystem
- Proficient in SQL
- Experience working on a cloud data platform (AWS preferred; GCP/Azure welcome)
- Data-driven mindset with measurable impact focus
- Proficiency with AI assistants and code-generation tools
- Strong technical writing and spec-driven thinking
- Good communication skills
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve data infrastructure powering analytics, AI, and machine learning
- Own features end-to-end from ingestion and processing to storage and consumption
- Leverage AI extensively to scale impact and handle routine tasks
- Produce clear specifications and documentation for data transformations
- Own initiatives across data ingestion, lakehouse migration, platform infrastructure, query and consumption, and engineering-process improvements
- Participate in on-call rotation to maintain platform health
Technologies
PythonSQLAWSGCPAzureKafkaAutoMQ-on-EKSApache IcebergSpark (EMR-on-EKS)Kubernetes/EKSTrinoCubeDuckDBAthenaDockerTerraformCDKCloudFormationFlinkDeltaHudi
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