Senior Data & Integration Engineer (Databricks/AI)

Location: Buenos Aires, Brazil, or Uruguay; remote

Company

hirify.global designs and delivers scalable digital solutions for global companies, combining technical expertise with a product mindset to deliver complex software initiatives.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade API and webhook integrations connecting alerting systems, Jira Cloud/JSM, internal services, and the Vantage incident management platform.
• Implement Jira AI-agent integrations with tool calling, structured outputs, auditable write-backs, and human-in-the-loop approval workflows.
• Build incremental Databricks lakehouse pipelines using Delta Lake, PySpark, and SQL to ingest data from AWS S3 with idempotency, schema evolution, and reconciliation.
• Design governed incident datasets supporting MTTD, MTTR, incident coverage, and recurring-issue analysis, including lineage, access controls, and retention policies.
• Own testing suites, failure recovery and backfill procedures, operational runbooks, and handover to internal operations.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering or Backend Integration Engineering, including a track record of delivering production-grade data pipelines and services.
• Hands-on production mastery of Databricks, Delta Lake, and PySpark/Spark SQL, including jobs, workflows, medallion architectures, and incremental ingestion.
• Experience building and maintaining production REST APIs, webhooks, and lightweight backend services in Python with FastAPI or Flask, including authentication, retries, rate limiting, and idempotency.
• Hands-on experience with core AWS services, primarily S3 and IAM, for secure storage and data ingestion.
• Practical experience integrating LLMs or AI agents into real workflows, including human-in-the-loop validation, tool calling, and full audit logging.
• Strong background in Git, CI/CD automation, automated unit and integration testing, and operational documentation and runbooks.
• Advanced professional English proficiency, written and spoken, for daily collaboration with multicultural, globally distributed teams.

Nice to have

• Direct experience integrating Jira Cloud or Jira Service Management APIs and webhooks.
• Experience with data governance tools such as Databricks Unity Catalog, row or column masking, and PII protection.
• Familiarity with SRE and incident response metrics such as MTTR and MTTD, and observability tools including CloudWatch, Datadog, or New Relic.
• Background in fintech, payment platforms, or regulated data environments.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote work within the stated locations.
• Strategic, high-visibility work in a modern engineering culture with strong technical leadership.
• Collaborative international environment with autonomy, clear communication, and long-term technical initiatives.
• Career development and growth opportunities within hirify.global.
• The contract initially lasts 3 months, with the possibility of extension to 6 months.