Senior Big Data Engineer (IB)

Remote Latam
Technology – Software Engineering /
Full-time /
Remote
Do you want to earn a salary in USD? 
Would you like to work from wherever you want?
Would you like to be a part of the leading next-gen software developers? 

Hi, you finally found us! 

Why work at Blue Coding? 

At Blue Coding we specialize in hiring excellent developers and amazing people from all over Latin America and other parts of the world. For the past 9 years, we’ve helped cutting-edge companies in the United States and Canada -both large and small, build great development teams and develop great products. Online shops, digital agencies, SaaS providers, and software consulting firms are a few of our clients. Our team of over 100 engineers is distributed in more than 10 countries across the Americas. We are a fully remote company working with a wide array of technologies and have expertise in every stage of the software development process.  

Our team is highly connected, united, and culturally diverse, and our collaborators are involved in many initiatives around the world, from wildlife preservation to volunteering at local charities. We also participate in group activities like movie nights, trivia, and meme competitions. We stand for honesty, fairness, respect, efficiency, hard work, and cooperation.

What are we looking for?
In this opportunity, we are looking for a Senior Big Data Engineer to work with one of our foreign clients, who are providing work with diverse clients in different industries including, Health, Legal, and Automotive.
If you are independent, a great communicator, a problem solver, and have strong attention to detail, this is a great fit for you! Our jobs are fully remote – as long as you have the skills and can get the work done well, you can work anywhere in the listed countries you want.
If you have the skills and can get the job done, join us and work from anywhere you want!

Here are some of the exciting day-to-day challenges you will face in this role:

    • Implement ETL/ELT processes using various tools and programming languages (Scala, Python) against our MPP databases StarRocks, Vertica and Snowflake 
    • As Data Engineers, not only are we developers, but we also maintain and administrate our MPP ecosystem.  We will tune and maximize our hardware potential from OS, network and storage levels 
    • Work with the Hadoop team and optimize Hive and Iceberg tables 
    • Running POC between different table formats 
    • Contribute to the existing Data Lake and Data Warehouse imitative using Hive, Spark, Iceberg, Presto/Trino 
    • Analyze business requirements, design and implement required data models 

You will shine if you have these:

    • BA/BS in Computer Science or in related field 
    • 2+ years of experience with MPP databases such as StarRocks, Vertica, Snowflake 
    • 5+ years of experience with RDBMS databases such as Oracle, MSSQL or PostgreSQL 
    • 2+ years of experience managing or developing in the Hadoop ecosystem 
    • Programming background with Scala, Python, Java or C/C++ 
    • Experience with Elasticsearch or ELK stack 
    • Working knowledge of streaming technologies such as Kafka 
    • Strong in any of the Linux distributions, RHEL,CentOS or Fedora 
    • Deep knowledge shell scripting, scheduling, and monitoring processes on Linux 
    • Experience working in both OLAP and OLTP environments 
    • Experience working on-prem, not just cloud environments 

It doesn't hurt if you also have:

    • Working knowledge of data unification and setup using Presto/Trino 
    • Working knowledge of orchestration tools such Oozie and Airflow 
    • Experience with Spark. PySpark, SparkSQL, Spark Streaming, etc… 
    • Experience using ETL tools such as Informatica, Talend and/or Pentaho 
    • Understanding of Healthcare data 
    • Data Analyst or Business Intelligence would be a plus 

Here are some of the perks we offer you:

    • Salary in USD
    • Long-term
    • Flexible schedule (within US Time zones)
    • 100% Remote
Hey, you are still here! 

So, let us ask a few questions. Do you like working in a friendly environment? Are you fluent in English? Do you have a strong work ethic, are detail-oriented and have an ownership mentality? And most importantly do you love music and puppies? If so, then what are you waiting for? Come join our team and become part of this awesome company! We will be expecting you.