Senior Data Engineer

Trio

Senior Data Engineer at Trio focusing on enhancing data architecture and scalability for financial products. Collaborating with teams to optimize data systems and ensure operational excellence.

Posted 5/8/2026full-timeCuritiba • 🇧🇷 BrazilSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

LinuxPostgres

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as the technical reference for the architecture, operation and evolution of the company’s data platform
Manage critical, high-availability and high-volume database environments
Perform advanced performance tuning on PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB and ClickHouse
Conduct bottleneck analyses, architectural reviews and optimization of queries and workloads
Design and evolve data pipelines and integrations between internal systems, partners and financial institutions
Participate in defining partitioning, retention, replication, compression and scalability strategies
Oversee vitals and observability of data environments, tracking metrics such as availability, latency, throughput and resource usage
Plan and implement changes in critical databases with a focus on operational safety and risk minimization
Support engineering and product teams in modeling data-driven solutions
Perform advanced troubleshooting and incident response related to the data layer
Contribute to the development of best practices for governance, security and resilience of the platform
Provide automations, technical documentation and operational standardization
Support strategic decisions regarding the technological evolution of the company’s data stack

Requirements

What you’ll need

Solid experience as a Data Engineer, Senior DBA or in related roles within critical environments
Advanced knowledge of PostgreSQL
Hands-on, in-depth experience with TimescaleDB
Proven experience with ClickHouse in high-volume production environments
Strong expertise in database tuning, query execution analysis, indexing, partitioning and optimization strategies
Experience working in mission-critical environments that require high availability and low latency
Familiarity with replication, backup, recovery and operational continuity strategies
Knowledge of data modeling and designing performance-oriented architectures
Experience with Linux and infrastructure troubleshooting related to databases
Familiarity with observability and monitoring of data environments
Knowledge of automation and infrastructure-as-code
Strong analytical skills and a strong sense of ownership
Ability to work autonomously in complex, high-responsibility scenarios
Excellent technical communication and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation and performance incentives
Hybrid work model
Unlimited snacks
Opportunities and support to keep learning and studying new technologies — your growth is part of ours
Participation in highly complex technical projects with direct impact on the Brazilian financial ecosystem
Highly collaborative environment, technical autonomy and space for ownership

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Hard Skills & Tools

PostgreSQLTimescaleDBClickHousedatabase tuningquery execution analysisindexingpartitioningoptimization strategiesdata modelinginfrastructure-as-code

Soft Skills

analytical skillsownershipautonomytechnical communicationcollaboration