Staff Data Engineer
Vertex
AI assistant
Job Description
Job Description:
Remote — Argentina, Brazil | Hybrid — Montevideo, Uruguay
- Lead the design and evolution of large-scale, mission-critical data systems powering a tax automation platform, owning the end-to-end flow from ingestion and validation to domain modeling, file generation, and regulatory submissions.
- Drive the design of complex, multi-tenant ETL/ELT and streaming pipeline topologies; establish standards for modularity, testing, data contracts, and reproducibility across teams.
- Tackle performance and correctness challenges in Spark/PySpark and Python, reducing latency and costs while improving SLAs/SLOs through robust retry, idempotency, and back-pressure patterns.
- Own production-grade data infrastructure on AWS, including EMR/EMR Serverless, RDS/Aurora, S3, Glue, and Iceberg/Delta; champion security, multi-AZ resilience, and