Senior Python Data Engineer
- Role
- Data Engineering
- Experience
- Senior
- Employment
- Full-time
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No BS summary
Senior data engineer in Costa Rica with 5+ years in data engineering and 3+ years using Python and SQL. Needs strong delivery/communication skills and ability to work with highly technical products; dashboarding tools are a plus.
Core skills
Optional skills
3Pillar is an AI transformation partner on a mission to help enterprises build the AI-native products and intelligent agents that will define the next era of business. With teams across North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia, we work with the most ambitious companies in financial services, healthcare, media, and technology — helping them move faster, modernize boldly, and compete on their own terms. Our HelixAI platform and Helix Pods delivery model put our engineers at the center of real agentic transformation — doing work that is open, portable, and built to last. We are building the future of enterprise AI.
Senior Python Data Engineer
At 3Pillar Global, we specialize in building impactful software products that power digital businesses. We are looking for a talented Senior Data Python + AWS Engineer who will not only write code but also deliver exceptional product capabilities for our clients. Your contributions will play a pivotal role in achieving our passion for client success, solidifying our position as a leading product development services company.
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Key Responsibilities
- Develop and refine strategies for acquiring research data from scientific laboratory instruments.
- Engineer and operationalize custom file parsers to handle diverse instrument output formats—including .xlsx, .pdf, .txt, .raw, .fid, and a variety of proprietary vendor binaries.
- Architect and implement robust data models, along with scalable data pipelines, comprehensive unit and integration tests, and modular utility libraries.
- Perform comparative analysis of datasets generated by similar instruments or workflows to design shared, extensible data model components.
- Create visualizations, reports, and interactive dashboards leveraging platforms such as Streamlit, Tableau, Jupyter Notebook, and others.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of building solutions as a Data Engineer or similar fields.
- 3+ years working in Python and SQL with a focus on data.
- Experience with data plotting dashboarding tools like Streamlit, Tableau, and Jupyter Notebook is a plus
- Excellent communication skills, attention to detail, and the confidence to take control of project delivery.
- Quickly understand a highly technical product and effectively communicate with product management and engineering.
Nice to Have
- Passionate about data problems and using AI and LLM to come up with creative ideas
- A degree in biology or chemistry or relevant fields OR > 3 years of work experience in pharmaceutical or biotech industry in scientific data engineering, data modeling, or data analytics.
- Exposure to DevOps practices in cloud environments.
- Some React experience
Benefits
- Medical Insurance benefits as per company policy.
- Life Insurance as per company policy
- 12 days of paid vacation, sick leave and paid holidays as per local law
- Paternity and maternity leave as per as per local law
- Marriage, bereavement and graduation leaves as per company policy
- Sick leave and paid holidays as per local law
- Christmas bonus as per local law
- Saving Fund “Asociacion Solidarista”
- Beach house (Managed by the Asociacion Solidarista)
- Discounts in local shops
- Direct deposit of payroll.
- Paid professional certifications
What is it like working for 3Pillar Global?
At 3Pillar, you choose where you work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of both. We are committed to supporting your family and personal goals. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, as an ongoing commitment to our remote-first culture.
New team members will live our shared values of Intrinsic Dignity, Open Collaboration, Outsized Impact, and Continuous Improvement everyday to harness The Power of Team and deliver exceptional products and services for our clients.
We support the comprehensive wellbeing of our team members, through:
- Career growth and development
- Physical and mental wellbeing: as a company, we spend a whole trimester in our annual cycle focused on wellbeing. Whether it is taking advantage of fitness offerings, mental health plans (country-dependent), or simply leveraging unlimited PTO to take some needed time off, we want all of our team members operating at their best.
- Living our value for Intrinsic Dignity as an equal opportunity employer.
Check out our Linkedin site and Careers page to learn more about what it’s like to be part of our #oneteam!
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What you'll do
- Develop and refine strategies for acquiring research data from scientific laboratory instruments.
- Engineer and operationalize custom file parsers to handle diverse instrument output formats—including .xlsx, .pdf, .txt, .raw, .fid, and a variety of proprietary vendor binaries.
- Architect and implement robust data models, along with scalable data pipelines, comprehensive unit and integration tests, and modular utility libraries.
- Perform comparative analysis of datasets generated by similar instruments or workflows to design shared, extensible data model components.
- Create visualizations, reports, and interactive dashboards leveraging platforms such as Streamlit, Tableau, Jupyter Notebook, and others.
What they require
- 5+ years of building solutions as a Data Engineer or similar fields.
- 3+ years working in Python and SQL with a focus on data.
- Excellent communication skills, attention to detail, and the confidence to take control of project delivery.
- Quickly understand a highly technical product and effectively communicate with product management and engineering.
- Preferred: Passionate about data problems and using AI and LLM to come up with creative ideas
- Preferred: A degree in biology or chemistry or relevant fields OR > 3 years of work experience in pharmaceutical or biotech industry in scientific data engineering, data modeling, or data analytics.
- Preferred: Exposure to DevOps practices in cloud environments.
Benefits
- Medical Insurance benefits as per company policy.
- Life Insurance as per company policy
- 12 days of paid vacation, sick leave and paid holidays as per local law
- Paternity and maternity leave as per as per local law
- Marriage, bereavement and graduation leaves as per company policy
- Sick leave and paid holidays as per local law
- Christmas bonus as per local law
- Saving Fund “Asociacion Solidarista”
- Beach house (Managed by the Asociacion Solidarista)
- Discounts in local shops
- Direct deposit of payroll.
- Paid professional certifications
- At 3Pillar, you choose where you work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of both.
- Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, as an ongoing commitment to our remote-first culture.
- Career growth and development
- Physical and mental wellbeing: as a company, we spend a whole trimester in our annual cycle focused on wellbeing.
- Fitness offerings
- Mental health plans (country-dependent)
- Unlimited PTO
3Pillar is an AI transformation and product engineering partner that helps organizations modernize core systems, build digital products, create AI-ready data foundations, and streamline operations with AI-native platforms and agents. Its offerings include the HelixAI platform and related components for knowledge graphs, governed SDLC agents, and cloud-agnostic AI runtime infrastructure.