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Romania Remote Database Developer / SQL

Senior Data Engineer

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Description

Ciklum is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team full-time in Romania.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for the building, deployment, and maintenance of mission-critical analytics solutions that process terabytes of data quickly at big-data scales
  • Contributes design, code, configurations, manage data ingestion, real-time streaming, batch processing, ETL across multiple data storages
  • Performs development, QA, and dev-ops roles as needed to ensure total end-to-end responsibility of solutions
  • Responsible for performance tuning of complicated SQL queries and Data flows
  • Identify gaps and improve the platform’s quality, robustness, maintainability, and speed
  • Cross-train other team members on technologies being developed, while also continuously learning new technologies from other team members
  • Contribute in the Unit’s activities and community building, participate in conferences, and provide excellence in exercise and best practices

Requirements

We know that sometimes, you can’t tick every box. We would still love to hear from you if you think you’re a good fit!

  • 5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer
  • 3+ years of experience coding in SQL, Java/Python/Scala, with solid CS fundamentals including data structure and algorithm design
  • 2+ years contributing to production deployments of large backend data processing and analysis systems 
  • 1+ years of hands-on implementation experience working with a combination of the following technologies: Hadoop, Map Reduce, Pig, Hive, Impala, Spark, Kafka, Storm, SQL and NoSQL data warehouses such as Hbase and Cassandra.
  • 2+ years of experience in cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • GenAI Understanding
    • Experience working with vector databases (Qdrant, Pinecone, FAISS, Weaviate etc.)
    • Knowledge of embedding models and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures
    • Understanding of LLM pipelines, including data preprocessing for GenAI models
  • MLOps Experience
    • Experience deploying data pipelines for AI/ML workloads, ensuring scalability and efficiency
    • Familiarity with model monitoring, feature stores (Feast, Vertex AI Feature Store), and data versioning
    • Experience with CI/CD for ML pipelines (Kubeflow, MLflow, Airflow, SageMaker Pipelines)
    • Understanding of real-time streaming for ML model inference (Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming)
  • Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software
  • Knowledge of Data Warehousing, design, implementation and optimization
  • Knowledge of Data Quality testing, automation and results visualization
  • Knowledge of BI reports and dashboards design and implementation (PowerBI, Tableau)
  • Knowledge of the development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
  • Experience participating in an Agile software development team, e.g. SCRUM
  • Experience designing, documenting, and defending designs for key components in large distributed computing systems
  • A consistent track record of delivering exceptionally high-quality software on large, complex, cross-functional projects
  • Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly and independently
  • Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
  • Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Engineering from a top CS program required. Masters preferred
  • Experience with supporting data scientists and complex statistical usecases highly desirable

Desirable

  • Experience in data science and machine learning
  • Experience in backend development and deployment
  • Experience in CI/CD configuration
  • Experience with Databricks, Snowflake
  • Experience with Kubernetes

What's in it for you

  • Care: your mental and physical health is our priority. We ensure comprehensive company-paid medical insurance and Mental Health programs. We also provide you with meal vouchers to fuel your mind and body
  • Tailored education path: boost your skills and knowledge with our regular internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Pluralsight licenses, language courses and company-paid certifications
  • Growth environment: share your experience and level up your expertise with a community of skilled professionals, locally and globally
  • Flexibility: Own your schedule – you are the one to decide when to start your working day. Just don’t miss your regular team stand-up  
  • Opportunities: we value our specialists and always find the best options for them
  • Our Internal Mobility Program helps change a project if needed to help you grow, excel professionally and fulfill your potential
  • Global impact: work on large-scale projects that redefine industries with international and fast-growing clients
  • Welcoming environment: feel empowered with a friendly team, open-door policy, informal atmosphere within the company and regular team-building events

About us:

Seize global opportunities by working with us! 
Enjoy our robust experience in various domains, a caring attitude and incredible team spirit. 
Together we will grow our business in Romania and globally!

Be bold, not bored!

Experiences of tomorrow. Engineered together

Interested already?

We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. Can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.

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