Senior Data Engineer
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Senior Data Engineer responsible for building and maintaining Avra's data platform for AI. Engage with complex real-world data challenges in a remote-first environment.
Responsibilities:
- Pipeline & Workflow Orchestration. Design and operate orchestrated workflows, ensuring clear execution semantics, observability, and resilience.
- Data Modeling & Transformation. Design and maintain scalable transformation layers using dbt, BigQuery, Spark, Ray or equivalent tools, enabling reliable downstream consumption.
- Data Quality & Platform Standards. Define and enforce standards around data quality, contracts, schema validation, lineage, and metadata.
- Handling Real-World Data Complexity. Work with incomplete, inconsistent, and evolving data sources. Handle schema drift, edge cases, and operational failures with strong engineering judgment.
- Cloud & Infrastructure Integration. Operate within cloud-native environments (GCP/AWS), working with storage, messaging (e.g., Pub/Sub), and infrastructure as code.
- Platform Improvement & Simplification. Continuously improve systems by increasing observability, reducing operational risk, and simplifying architecture.
Requirements:
- Experience - At least 5 years of experience building and operating data systems in production environments
- Technical Proficiency - Strong Python and SQL skills, with experience in data pipelines, orchestration, and warehouse modeling
- Operational Mindset - Experience managing data quality, observability, failure modes, and long-running production workflows
- Collaboration - Strong communication skills and ability to work across engineering, product, and business teams
Benefits:
- Competitive Compensation - Attractive salary and equity participation
- Ownership & Impact - Direct influence on the foundation of Avra’s data platform and its evolution
- Technical Environment - Work on real-world data problems involving complex ingestion, reliability, and large-scale systems
- Lean, High-Quality Team - Work closely with experienced engineers and founders in a high-context environment
- Flexible Culture - Remote-first (Brazil), with flexible time off and a strong focus on autonomy


















