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Lead Data Engineer – Ciklum is looking for a Lead Data Engineer to join our team in Argentina.

About The Role

As a Lead Data Engineer, you'll become a part of a cross‑functional development team engineering experience of tomorrow.

Responsibilities

- Lead the migration of large-scale logs and distributed traces from existing Analytics Databases to ClickHouse
- Design and tune distributed ClickHouse clusters, including sharding, replication, partitioning, and storage layout
- Architect high-throughput ingestion pipelines and scalable schemas optimized for real‑time telemetry workloads
- Establish monitoring, alerting, and operational best practices, including Kubernetes deployment and TTL policies
- Partner with platform and SRE teams to ensure production readiness, reliability, and security of the platform
- Document architecture decisions, performance tuning approaches, and operational runbooks for the team

Requirements

- Systems Design:
- 12+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or data platform engineering
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and high‑ingestion telemetry architectures
- Experience designing schemas for billion‑row‑scale analytical or telemetry datasets

- Database & Infrastructure:

- Experience with ClickHouse or similar analytical databases (ClickHouse is a strong plus)
- Expertise in SQL performance tuning and migrating data between large‑scale analytical systems
- Experience deploying and operating stateful systems on Kubernetes using Terraform and Helm

- Observability & Data:

- Practical experience with OpenTelemetry logs and traces
- Familiarity with ingestion pipelines like Kafka, Azure Event Hub, or Azure Data Explorer (Kusto)
- Proven ability to optimize query latency and cost for high‑cardinality datasets





- Cloud & Operations:

- Proficiency in at least one major cloud provider: Azure, GCP, or AWS
- Experience implementing backup/restore strategies and resolving complex performance bottlenecks

Personal Skills

- Analytical Rigor: Strong ability to deconstruct complex telemetry problems and identify core technical requirements
- Commitment: Dedicated to the timely delivery of high‑quality, reliable, and production‑ready data platforms
- Collaboration: A proactive team player who thrives in partnering with SRE and Platform teams in dynamic environments
- Documentation Flair: Natural talent for creating clear, organized, and useful technical documentation and runbooks
- Growth Mindset: Eagerness to learn and adapt to the evolving ClickHouse and Observability ecosystem
- English Proficiency: Ability to communicate clearly in global environments and understand complex technical documentation

Benefits

- Comprehensive company‑paid medical insurance and mental health programs, 5 undocumented sick‑leave days per year
- Tailored education path: boost your skills and knowledge with regular internal events, Udemy license, language courses, and company‑paid certifications
- Growth environment: share your experience and level up your expertise with a community of skilled professionals, locally and globally
- Long‑term employment with 20 working‑days paid vacation and local bank holidays
- Flexibility: 100% remote work mode
- Internal Mobility Program to facilitate project changes for career growth
- Integral impact: work on large‑scale projects redefining industries with international and fast‑growing clients
- Welcoming environment: feel empowered with a friendly team, open‑door policy, informal atmosphere, and regular team‑building events

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