Software Data Engineer, Data Platform

You are a Software Data Engineer with deep experience building data-intensive systems, not a traditional ETL or BI-focused Data Engineer. In this role, you will design and build production-grade data services, platforms, and pipelines that power DIH and our AI-driven products. You will combine strong software engineering fundamentals with modern data engineering practices, with a focus on clean architecture, reliability, scalability, observability, and testing.

As a Software Data Engineer, Data Platform, you will:

• Build and evolve Python-based services and pipelines that ingest raw industrial events, store them reliably, and expose clean, well-modeled tables and APIs for downstream consumers, including Digital Twin, Smart Canvas, AI agents, and analytics.
• Design systems that handle duplicates, invalid data, late-arriving events, and reprocessing in a principled, incremental, and reproducible manner.
• Collaborate with platform, machine learning, and product teams across Israel and globally to transform complex data challenges into robust, observable, and scalable software solutions.

A Day in Your Life

Production Data Systems & Pipelines

• Design and implement end-to-end data flows, from raw event ingestion into durable storage to modeled datasets and aggregates that power products, Digital Twin capabilities, analytics, and AI agents.
• Build idempotent pipelines that can safely re-run without corrupting data, using deterministic keys and clearly defined contracts between raw, curated, and modeled datasets.
• Implement incremental aggregations (e.g., machine signal summaries, production metrics, and operational KPIs) that correctly account for late-arriving data, watermarking strategies, and reproducibility requirements.
• Model relationships and context across machines, lines, factories, sensors, work orders, and operational events to support context-aware applications, knowledge graphs, and AI agents.
• Partner with platform teams to define how datasets are stored within our lakehouse, Digital Twin, and context graph architectures and exposed through well-defined APIs and tools.

Software Engineering & Data Quality

• Write clean, maintainable Python services with clear separation of concerns across ingestion, validation, transformation, persistence, aggregation, and orchestration layers.
• Apply strong data modeling and SQL fundamentals, including schema design, indexing strategies, event-time semantics, and scalable aggregation patterns.
• Drive testing discipline across the data platform, including unit tests, data-quality tests, integration tests, and validation frameworks.
• Design for observability through metrics, logging, tracing, and monitoring that simplify debugging, improve data quality visibility, and support production operations.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production data issues, including incorrect aggregations, missing data, duplicate records, schema evolution challenges, and backfill operations.

Streaming, Lakehouse & Scalability

• Build and evolve systems that scale from local development environments to cloud-scale lakehouse architectures using technologies such as Databricks, Delta Lake, and Spark.
• Design and implement data pipelines following modern lakehouse patterns, including Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers, partitioning strategies, and cost-efficient compute utilization.
• Work with streaming and messaging platforms (Kafka, Pub/Sub, or similar) to build reliable, idempotent consumers, replay capabilities, and reprocessing workflows.
• Contribute to multi-tenant data architectures, data contracts, and governance practices that enable secure and efficient access to customer data at scale.

Collaboration & AI-Native Experiences

• Work closely with DIH, Smart Canvas, and AI teams to define how agents interact with structured data, context graphs, APIs, and tools in deterministic and reliable ways.
• Translate product requirements and user needs into technical designs that balance correctness, performance, latency, cost, and long-term maintainability.
• Participate in architecture reviews, design discussions, code reviews, and collaborative development practices that raise the overall engineering bar across the organization.
• Help shape the future of AI-native experiences by building the data foundations that power intelligent applications and agentic workflows.

What You Bring

•       Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial experience building backend systems, distributed systems, or data-intensive applications in production environments.
• Strong Python engineering skills, including modular architecture, dependency management, testing practices, observability, and production-grade code quality.
• Strong SQL and data modeling expertise, including schema design, indexing strategies, event-driven data models, and scalable analytical aggregations.
• Hands-on experience building incremental and idempotent data pipelines that handle duplicate, invalid, and late-arriving events without impacting downstream consumers.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform (Azure, GCP, or AWS) and modern lakehouse technologies such as Databricks, Delta Lake, Spark, or equivalent architectures.
• Experience with streaming or messaging technologies such as Kafka, Pub/Sub, Event Hubs, or similar event-driven systems.
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve production data issues, including data quality problems, schema evolution, backfills, replay scenarios, and performance bottlenecks.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and experience collaborating effectively with globally distributed teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience building industrial, IoT, manufacturing, or operational data platforms.
• Familiarity with Digital Twin architectures and industrial data models.
• Experience with graph databases, context graphs, knowledge graphs, or relationship-centric data modeling.
• Exposure to AI/LLM-powered applications, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agents, tool calling, or evaluation frameworks.
• Experience working with Databricks or similar lakehouse platforms from both application and platform perspectives.
• Experience building data products that directly support AI agents, intelligent applications, or machine learning workflows.

Perks

• Stock options
• Paid parental leave
• Flex PTO