Remote Senior Data Engineer: Scalable Pipelines & Lakes
Summary
Senior Data Engineer on a distributed, remote-first team based in South Africa, designing and maintaining scalable data pipelines, warehouses, and data lakes. Day-to-day work uses Spark, Hadoop, cloud services, Python/Scala/Java, and ETL/ELT orchestration for both real-time and batch processing.
Placements24 is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join a distributed, remote-first team. You will design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, data warehouses, and data lakes using Spark, Hadoop, and cloud services.
The role emphasizes data quality, accessibility for data scientists, and collaboration across a remote team. You will work with Python/Scala/Java, ETL/ELT tooling, and modern orchestration systems to enable real-time and batch processing.