Senior Data Engineer (100% remote; Trino)

Senior Data Engineer (100% remote; Trino)

• 💰 Salary up to 9500 USD per month

• 🌎 100% remote work

• 🕦 Full-time 

• ☑️ B2B contract

We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join a small, senior team focused on building high-scale ingestion, storage, and query systems. You'll work with modern data lake technologies to design a platform that processes terabytes of data daily, with a strong emphasis on streaming, efficiency, and speed. This is a deeply technical, customer-facing role with strong ownership. You’ll often work directly with clients, understanding and resolving data-related issues, designing solutions, defining system architecture, improving performance, and shaping the long-term technical roadmap.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in backend or data engineering roles

• Deep experience with one or more modern open-source data technologies to build a data lake on top of: Apache Iceberg, Trino / Presto, or  ClickHouse

• Proficient in backend programming languages: Java, Go, Python

• Familiarity with tools like Apache Kafka, Apache Flink

• Hands-on with modern data lake and query technologies (e.g. table formats, columnar databases, or query engines)

• Comfortable working with large-scale datasets (terabytes/day or billions of rows)

• Familiarity with cloud-native systems: object storage, autoscaling, containers

Nice to have

• Contributions to open-source projects related to big data, query engines, or security tooling

• Background in building or scaling event/log/metric data platforms

• Familiarity with security analytics, observability, or threat detection systems

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend systems for real-time and batch data analytics

• Re-architect and optimize ingestion and query pipelines, including table design and indexing strategies

• Work with massive datasets (terabytes/day) and ensure high performance at scale

• Participate in technical architecture discussions with the engineering and product teams

• Act as a technical contact for customer-facing issues and use cases

• Support production systems as part of a shared on-call rotation (every few weeks)

• Debug, resolve, and prevent issues in complex, distributed data environments

Get to know DevsData:

We are a technology consulting company and a recruitment agency, delivering software solutions to clients from Europe and the US. We work 100% remotely, in an international team, including people from Asia, London, or San Francisco. We employ people with experience in international corporations as well as students of the best technical and business universities.

Find out more: https://devsdata.com/