83K–108K EUR / year
Staff Data Engineer
DataHybrid — Lisbon, Portugal
Published on 2026-09-23
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About this role
Lead the design and delivery of reliable data pipelines and platform capabilities for customer data ingestion, activation, analytics, and machine learning. Drive high-impact technical initiatives and improve system reliability, data quality, observability, and scalability.
About the company
Iterable is a cross-channel marketing platform for email, push, SMS, and in-app messaging. It helps growth and lifecycle teams orchestrate personalized customer journeys.
Stack
PythonSQLScalaJavaSnowflakeDatabricksS3Postgres
What you'll do
- Own architecture and delivery of ingestion and activation workflows, connectors, transformations, incremental sync, and bulk API integrations.
- Establish resilience and recovery patterns, including retries, replayability, backfills, and idempotency.
- Lead Snowflake pipelines and data-sharing workflows for analytics and customer-facing data delivery.
- Set standards for schema evolution, data quality, observability, testing, and lifecycle management.
- Partner with data science and ML teams on infrastructure for features, model inputs, serving, and experimentation.
- Lead technical decisions and cross-team alignment; mentor engineers and guide design reviews.
- Identify architectural and operational risks and turn them into roadmaps and execution plans.
What we're looking for
- 8+ years of relevant data engineering, software engineering, or platform experience.
- Deep experience building and operating production data pipelines or platforms at scale.
- Strong Python and SQL skills, plus familiarity with Scala or Java.
- Experience with modern data platforms, cloud systems, and workflow orchestration.
- Knowledge of data modeling, schema evolution, incremental processing, testing, observability, and operational excellence.
- Track record of leading ambiguous, high-impact initiatives and influencing across teams.
- Experience designing highly available, resilient systems; willingness to participate in on-call as needed.
- Fluent English and legally authorized to work in the EU.
Nice to have
- Experience with disaster recovery, replay, idempotency, and backfill patterns.
- Multi-tenant or enterprise-scale data delivery experience.
- Platform standardization, reusable frameworks, and architecture leadership across teams.
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- Private medical insurance
- Life and risk assurance
- Meal allowance of €8.55 per day
- 22 days of paid annual leave
- Global lifestyle reimbursement account
- Paid sabbatical
- Laptop workstation