# Staff Data Engineer

Job Description: Remote - Argentina, Brazil | Hybrid - Montevideo, Uruguay Lead the design and evolution of large-scale, mission-critical data systems powering a tax automation platform, owning the end-to-end flow from ingestion and validation to domain modeling, file generation, and regulatory submissions. Drive the design of complex, multi-tenant ETL/ELT and streaming pipeline topologies; establish standards for modularity, testing, data contracts, and reproducibility across teams. Tackle performance and correctness challenges in Spark/PySpark and Python, reducing latency and costs while improving SLAs/SLOs through robust retry, idempotency, and back-pressure patterns. Own production-grade data infrastructure on AWS, including EMR/EMR Serverless, RDS/Aurora, S3, Glue, and Iceberg/Delta; champion security, multi-AZ resilience, and cost governance. Define the technical roadmap for platform scale, covering workload isolation, schema evolution, partitioning, compaction, and caching; introduce observability through data lineage, quality SLAs, and reliability metrics. Mentor senior engineers, conduct deep design reviews, and partner with product managers and tax subject matter experts

- **Id**: 3992422
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/vertex-staff-data-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Uruguay
- **Countries**: UY
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T23:56:52Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T23:56:52Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6195
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Accounting & Tax Software

## Company

- **Id**: 58884
- **Name**: Vertex
- **Domain**: vertexinc.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/vertexinc>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 79
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.833
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **Amazon Aurora** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **pySpark** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Amazon ECS** — Optional: yes
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: yes
- **Amazon Kinesis** — Optional: yes
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **Bitbucket** — Optional: yes
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **dbt** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **Fastify** — Optional: yes
- **Gmail** — Optional: yes
- **GraphQL** — Optional: yes
- **Great Expectations** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Jenkins** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Node JS** — Optional: yes
- **Notion** — Optional: yes
- **Pandas** — Optional: yes
- **Prisma** — Optional: yes
- **Slack** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Argentina** — Iso: AR; Kind: country
- **Uruguay** — Iso: UY; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T23:56:52Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T00:49:59Z

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