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Lead Data Engineer

Posted about 1 month ago

RemoteSerbiaSE60k - 84k USD

As the Data Engineer you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the data engineering function for a remote-first technology organization.

This role oversees the full lifecycle of data architecture, pipelines, modeling, tooling, and reliability. It also involves operational duties and direct collaboration with technical leadership, including defining the complete data engineering strategy from the ground up.

Key Responsibilities

  • Architect, implement, and maintain scalable data pipelines across core systems.
  • Build and manage analytics infrastructure using both open-source and commercial tools.
  • Ensure data quality and schema discipline for operational reliability.
  • Deliver clean, consistent models and dashboards utilized by multiple teams.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to support analytics, business intelligence, and decision-making initiatives.

Requirements

  • 5+ years hands-on data engineering experience; big plus if you’ve been the first data hire before.
  • Strong SQL plus real programming ability (Python preferred).
  • Production experience with data tooling (Airflow, dbt, Fivetran).
  • Experience integrating APIs and working with warehouses/lakes such as Redshift, ClickHouse, or similar.
  • Experience with analytics/BI tools (Metabase, Looker, Table­au, PowerBI, etc.).  
  • Comfortable with cloud infrastructure and IaC (AWS strongly preferred).
  • Soft skills to understand business needs and collaborate with non-tech teams on their use cases.
  • Embedded and real time analytics experience is a plus.
  • Streaming architectures (Kinesis/Kafka), ClickHouse, ELK, VictoriaMetrics, reverse-ETL is a plus.

Benefits

  • $5,000 - $7,000 USD/month
  • Unlimited PTO
Job details
Workplace
Remote
Location
Serbia
Experience
SE
Salary
60k - 84k USD
per year

SurGlobal is a Latin American nonprofit on the mission of developing educational content and creating community learning spaces that cultivate knowledge, inspiration, and human connections to ensure responsible innovation and viable futures. Connect with us at [email protected]

Employees
4
Industry
Education
Headquarters
Lima, Lima
Founded
2024
Company location
Lima, Lima
Specialties
Design, Training, Events, Community building, Strategic Foresight, Innovation, Sustainability, Mentorships, Consulting, and Management

Key team members

Elsie Ralston

Elsie Ralston

Cristian Situ

Cristian Situ

Alejandra Dancuart

Alejandra Dancuart

Rebeca Fuenzalida

Rebeca Fuenzalida

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