How you will make an impact
As a Staff Data Engineer at Iterable, you'll build reliable data pipelines and platform capabilities that power customer-facing data movement, analytics data products, and machine learning foundations.
You will lead large-scope or high-impact projects, drive technical decisions through ambiguity, and collaborate across engineering, product, infrastructure, and data science to deliver scalable, observable systems.
You will help evolve our ingestion, activation, analytics, and ML data workflows while improving reliability, data quality, operational visibility, and long-term maintainability across the platform.
How you will make a difference
Own the architecture and end-to-end delivery of critical workflows in our next-generation data ingestion and activation platform, including source connectors, staging and transformation workflows, diffing and incremental sync logic, and integrations with Iterable bulk APIs.
Define and apply high-availability, fault-tolerance, and recovery patterns for data-intensive systems, including graceful degradation, retries, replayability, backfills, idempotency, and durable workflow execution.
Lead the design of Snowflake-based data pipelines and data-sharing workflows that improve freshness, correctness, scalability, and operability for analytics products and customer-facing data delivery.
Establish technical standards for schema evolution, data quality, observability, testing, and lifecycle management so data systems are easier to extend, debug, and support at scale.
Partner with data science and machine learning engineers to architect robust data infrastructure behind feature generation, feature serving, model inputs, and experimentation workflows.
Drive technical tradeoffs across batch and streaming patterns, raw-to-curated data modeling, latency, performance, cost, availability, and maintainability as systems scale.
Collaborate with cross-functional partners across product, frontend, platform, SRE, and customer-facing teams to define interfaces, resolve complex production issues, and align solutions with broader platform direction.
Identify architectural gaps and operational risks early, and turn them into concrete roadmaps, design proposals, and execution plans.
Create reusable abstractions, platform capabilities, and engineering patterns that raise the leverage of the broader team beyond immediately owned systems.
Provide technical leadership through design reviews, implementation guidance, incident reviews, and mentorship for senior and mid-level engineers.
Influence roadmap and prioritization discussions by connecting platform investments to reliability, scalability, and long-term engineering efficiency.
We are looking for people who have
8+ years of relevant experience in data engineering, software engineering, or adjacent platform and infrastructure roles.
Deep experience designing and operating production data pipelines, ETL/ELT systems, or data platforms at scale.
Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, plus familiarity with at least one additional programming language such as Scala or Java.
Experience with modern data tooling and cloud platforms such as Snowflake, S3, Databricks, Postgres, Redis, or similar systems.
Strong experience with orchestration and workflow concepts, and with designing batch and/or streaming data systems.
Deep understanding of data modeling, schema evolution, incremental processing, testing, observability, and operational excellence for reliable data products.
A track record of owning ambiguous, high-impact technical initiatives from problem definition through adoption and operational maturity.
Experience designing for high availability, resilience, and recovery in systems with strict reliability or customer delivery expectations.
Experience influencing technical direction across teams and building alignment without direct authority.
Desire to work in a highly remote/distributed but collaborative environment.
Willingness to participate in operational support or on-call as needed.
Fluency in English (verbal and written).
Legally authorized to work in the EU.
Our Technology Stack
Programming Languages: Python, SQL, Scala and/or Java
Data Platforms & Databases: Snowflake, Databricks, S3, Postgres, Redis
Infrastructure: AWS, Kafka, Pulsar
Other Relevant Technologies: Spark, Terraform, Docker / Kubernetes, ETL/ELT orchestration
Bonus Points
Designing highly available, fault-tolerant data platforms
Disaster recovery, replay, idempotency, and backfill patterns
Multi-tenant or enterprise-scale data delivery
Platform standardization and reusable framework design
Leading architecture across multiple teams
Operational excellence for business-critical workflows
What we offer
Competitive salaries & meaningful equity
Private Medical Insurance
Life/Risk Assurance
Meal Allowance: 8.55€ per day
Community Days (days for us to give back to the community)
Paid Annual Leave (22 days)
Global Lifestyle Reimbursement Account
Paid Sabbatical
Complete laptop workstation
The base salary range for this position in Lisbon, Portugal, is €82,500 – €108,000 per year (gross). This range is provided in anticipation of the requirements of the EU Pay Transparency Directive (2023/970), which EU member states are implementing into national law, and reflects the expected compensation at the start of employment for this role.The final offer will be determined by your experience, qualifications, and performance throughout the selection process, while ensuring alignment with our internal equity principles.
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