Senior Data Engineer
Proximie
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Beirut • Lebanon
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About the role
- Design, evolve and future-proof scalable data architectures to meet performance, cost, and reliability goals.
- Build and orchestrate resilient batch and real-time data pipelines.
- Data modelling & cataloguing including; Performance Tuning in various technologies (e.g. Spark, Presto, Athena, Postgres).
- Build automated testing frameworks including implement anomaly detection and validation checks (e.g. with Great Expectations).
- Monitoring & Incident Response including; Enforce data access controls, encryption at rest/in transit, PII masking/anonymization, and collaborate on HIPAA/GDPR (or equivalent) compliance.
- Manage and version cloud infrastructure using IaC tooling (e.g. Terraform).
- Collaborate closely with Data Scientists, Analysts, Product, and Customer Success teams to design reliable, well-documented datasets and APIs that enable analytics, insights, and ML capabilities.
- Drive development of customer-facing data products - APIs, timelines, dashboards - and support machine-learning data pipelines.
- Mentor junior engineers, champion best practices, document architectures/runbooks/data dictionaries, and standardize coding conventions and CI/CD.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- Minimum of 5+ years as a Data Engineer with experience developing and supporting with data lakes, warehouses preferably on AWS.
- Extensive experience designing, deploying, and maintaining data infrastructure on AWS (or equivalent), including data lakes, warehouses, and real-time pipelines.
- Experience across a variety of AWS products such as S3, Glue, EMR, Lambda, Aurora or equivalents.
- Professional software development experience with Python and SQL.
- Able to work as a team to deliver against requirements in a collaborative and agile way.
Benefits
- Generous annual leave.
- Two “well-being” days per year plus the day off for your birthday.
- “Summer Fridays” – early office closing on Fridays during summer months.
- Annual bonus programme – based on individual contribution.
- Access to an annual stipend of $1,000 to assist with personal development activities.
- Flexible working hours.
- A flat organizational structure where every opinion matters, ideas are cultivated, and innovation is encouraged.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data architecturedata modelingperformance tuningautomated testing frameworksanomaly detectiondata access controlsencryptionInfrastructure as Code (IaC)PythonSQL
Soft Skills
collaborationmentoringbest practicesdocumentationteamworkagile methodology
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Mathematicsequivalent practical experience