Senior Data Engineer (remote)

About Qualifyze, 

Founded in 2019, Qualifyze is a leading company in supply chain compliance management in the Life Sciences industry, trusted by over 1,500 pharmaceutical and healthcare companies globally. Our digital suite of solutions connects manufacturers, suppliers, and a global network of more than 250 auditors and quality experts.

With a track record of over 4,500 audits across 85+ countries and the largest and most accurate supplier network and data analytics tools, Qualifyze stands as the all-in-one partner for quality compliance and supply chain risk mitigation in the Life Sciences sector.

Role Overview:

We are looking for aSenior Data Engineer to join our growingProduct & Tech team. In this role, you will help build and evolve ourdata platform,owning key pipelines anddata products from end to end and contributing to theengineering decisions that shape them.

Your main goal will be todesign, build, and maintain reliable data pipelines across ouroperational databases andanalytical platform, applyingquality software engineering practices to everything you ship.

You will collaborate closely with theproduct team andbackend engineers, and work directly withbusiness stakeholders who depend onaccurate, timely data to driveproduct decisions.

This role is well suited for someone withstrong skills in Python and SQL,solid software engineering fundamentals, hands-on experience buildingproduction data pipelines in aproduct or platform team, and a passion for managing work across thefull data cycle, fromoperational to analytical systems.

Main responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and well-tested data pipelines anddata products.

• Manage features and pipelines end-to-end: fromschema design inoperational databases throughingestion,transformation, anddelivery of analytical datasets.

• Contribute to thearchitecture of ourdata platform and help evaluatetechnical trade-offs with the team.

• Apply and help improve standards fordata modeling,data quality,testing, andcode review.

• Work withProduct,Engineering, andbusiness stakeholders to turn requirements intowell-scoped data solutions.

• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolvepipeline incidents, and improveobservability andreliability over time.

• Share knowledge with the team andmentor fellow engineers throughpairing andcode reviews.

Main requirements:

• Proficiency in Python for data engineering: buildingrobust ETL/ELT pipelines andreusable modules, withstrong testing (e.g., pytest) andgood observability.

• Strong SQL skills with PostgreSQL: complex query design, performance tuning, indexing, and reading execution plans for both OLTP and OLAP workloads.

• Hands-on experience with dbt: building, testing, and documenting models, ideally in a layered (e.g., medallion) project structure.

• Experience with Dagster (or similar orchestrators such as Airflow): building assets/jobs, scheduling, monitoring, and handling failures in production workflows.

• Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes: packaging and running data services and batch jobs in production.

• Solid grasp of data modeling: dimensional modeling and an understanding of the trade-offs between operational and analytical schemas.

  Nice to have:

  • Experience withAWS (S3, EKS, Secrets Manager).

  • Experience with database schema migration tools (such as Liquibase) ordata contracts.

💰 Salary 

At Qualifyze, our salary ranges are transparent internally, and we aim to follow a similar approach externally. For this role, we’re happy to share a reference point within the band: the expected salary range is around60.000€ – 70.000€, centered around the median.

Final compensation will depend on experience and performance during the process, with some flexibility within the range.

What do we offer?

• 💰Competitive, annually reviewed compensation package

• 🌴Country vacation package that increases with your tenure

• 🏋🏽‍♀️Country specific benefits offering incl. private health care, fitness and meal allowances

• 🚀Annual personal development budget to increase your impact

• 🌎Hybrid working mode, plus up to 3 months of the year work from anywhere.

• 💻All the best kit and tools to work effectively

• 🎉Annual in person all company event and celebration in Europe

• 👫Working with an exceptional team, doing some of the best work of your career

Use of AI in Our Recruitment Process:

We believe in a human-led hiring process. All applications are reviewed manually by our Talent Acquisition team, and neither Talent Acquisition nor Hiring Managers use AI to screen, filter, rank, assess, or make decisions about candidates, including during interviews and assessments. During interviews, AI may be used only to support note-taking and transcription. 

All hiring decisions are made by people!

Diversity & Inclusion at Qualifyze: 

At Qualifyze we actively support the power of diversity, uniting complementary talents and perspectives to address new challenges. Our collective strengths help us to find innovative solutions and turn difficulties into opportunities. We will encourage you to bring your authentic self to work, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone belongs and feels heard.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, disability, or age.  Our hiring practices are rooted in fairness and respect, and we strive to create a culture where everyone feels valued and empowered.