Data Engineer

We're hiring on behalf of a Haystack partner!

The Role

• Design and operate data pipelines that power critical data services, transforming curated pharmaceutical, prescription, and clinical reference data into reliable, up-to-date, and performant datasets for SaaS products and partners.

• Build and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines using Python with FastAPI services, alongside Apache Spark/Scala workloads, with a constant focus on data quality, lineage, observability, and cost optimization.

• Collaborate closely with Product Management, AI Engineers, and Architects to design Data Products that enable new AI-native features and partner integrations.

• Utilize AI tools and agents to significantly accelerate the development of pipelines, schema migrations, and analyses, while building reusable data engineering skills and workflows with the team.

• Apply rigorous engineering principles to the data world, including automated testing, CI/CD, observability, stringent schema management, and clear ownership of pipelines and services.

What You'll Need

• Several years of senior-level experience in Data Engineering with Python, demonstrating a proven track record of operating production data pipelines in regulated or business-critical environments.

• A completed degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a comparable technical field, with excellent academic performance.

• Strong SQL skills and experience with at least one modern data stack (e.g., Airflow, dbt, Spark/PySpark, Kafka) and cloud data platforms, ideally AWS.

• Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform and GitOps/ArgoCD, along with secure handling of version control, testing, and monitoring.

• Demonstrated effective use of AI in software and data engineering, preferably with agentic tools, and experience in designing AI pipelines, harnesses, and context engineering.

• Fluency in both German and English, strong problem-solving abilities, a passion for innovation, high proactivity, and an entrepreneurial mindset aligned with a healthcare purpose and patient safety responsibility.

What's On Offer

• Competitive salary

• Flexible work arrangements with hybrid options.

• Opportunities for professional development through internal academies and external partnerships.

• Access to wellness programs, including healthy food options and fitness facilities.

Apply via Haystack today!