Senior Databricks Engineer (Databricks)

Location: Lisbon, Portugal; hybrid with 3 days per week on-site

Company

hirify.global is a technology company providing tailored Cloud, Cybersecurity, Data, and Advanced Development solutions across Europe as part of an international technology services group.

What you will do

• Design, build, maintain, and operate scalable data pipelines on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform using PySpark, Spark SQL, and Python.
• Design and optimize Delta Lake tables, including partitioning, schema evolution, performance tuning, caching, shuffling, join strategies, and file sizing.
• Implement Raw, Cleansed, and Curated data architectures and manage Databricks Jobs, Workflows, and Delta Live Tables.
• Configure clusters, monitor platform cost efficiency, and implement logging, monitoring, alerting, recovery, and data quality controls.
• Use Unity Catalog for governance, lineage, and access control; participate in code reviews and CI/CD-driven delivery.
• Collaborate in Agile ceremonies and maintain technical documentation and architecture decisions.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional experience in Data Engineering.
• Significant hands-on Databricks experience in production environments.
• Strong expertise in Apache Spark, PySpark, and Spark SQL.
• Proven practical experience with Delta Lake.
• Advanced Python and SQL skills.
• Experience designing, deploying, and supporting production-grade data pipelines.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD practices, plus Databricks Workflows, Jobs, and Delta Live Tables.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or a related field.
• Fluent English, written and spoken.

Nice to have

• Unity Catalog, data governance, and lineage experience.
• Cloud experience with Azure, AWS, and/or GCP.
• Terraform, Databricks Asset Bundles, dbt, or Airflow.
• Databricks Data Engineer Associate or Professional certification.
• Exposure to MLflow and Databricks ML workflows.
• Experience in product engineering environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Attractive salary package and work-life balance.
• Work on large-scale international data platforms using modern cloud and data technologies.
• Tailor-made training aligned with professional goals.
• Friendly, collaborative, entrepreneurial, and dynamic workplace culture.
• Health and life insurance.
• Tech Visa support is available for candidates outside the European Union.