Senior Data Engineer - Applied AI (Python/Databricks/Snowflake/BigQuery) - Full Remote Portugal

Senior Data Engineer - Applied AI (Python/Databricks/Snowflake/BigQuery) - Full Remote Portugal

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

We're hiring a Senior Data Engineer - Applied AI to join a fast-growing, collaborative engineering company known for building high-performance software that impacts users worldwide. This is a fully remote role based in Portugal, working within an agile team where technical voice and ownership are valued as much as delivery. Expect occasional national and international travel (estimated 0–15%, depending on project and client needs) to support design-partner engagements.

PROJECT & CONTEXT

You'll join a team building AI-powered accelerators that generate correct, idiomatic, production-ready code across major cloud data platforms — Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, and AWS. Your work spans building platform adapters, encoding platform-specific correctness rules into validators and evaluation layers, and shaping high-value generation targets including ingestion pipelines, transformation logic, warehouse/catalog scaffolding, orchestration, IaC, CI/CD, and governance accelerators (data contracts, lineage, metadata, PII, data quality). You'll work closely with delivery teams and design partners to ensure outputs are reviewable, adopted, and genuinely used.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR (Required)

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Data Engineer with a track record of end-to-end delivery in fast-paced environments
• Professional fluency in English, with strong cross-team collaboration and the ability to guide others
• Solid grounding in engineering and architectural best practices, comfortable with CI/CD and Git-based workflows
• Strong production software engineering skills: Python, testing, CI/CD, REST, Docker
• Real depth in at least one modern cloud data platform (Databricks/Spark, Snowflake, or BigQuery), strong SQL and data modeling skills, and the ability to reason across other platforms
• Practical AI engineering experience: prompt design, structured outputs, function calling, and evaluation, using Anthropic and/or OpenAI APIs
• Experience with code-as-data workflows: codegen, templating, and validating/parsing generated code for review

NICE TO HAVE (Preferred)

• Experience co-owning agentic AI systems rather than only handing off requirements to AI-systems counterparts
• Exposure to building reusable, cross-client products rather than one-off pipelines

Compensation: €2,300 – €3,000/month net, depending on experience and seniority level.
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