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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Engineer - **Company:** Lifebit - **Location:** Spain (Remote available) - **Salary:** €65,000.0 - €83,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Computer-Aided Design, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Bioinformatics, Clinical Data Repository, Computational Biology, Computer Programming, Data as a Services, Data Security, Data Systems, Distributed Systems, Graph Database, Python (Programming Language), Metadata, Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, Data Layers, Microsoft Fabric, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Build Tools, Data Pipelines, Docker, Golang, Microservices - **Published:** August 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://es.trabajo.org/oferta-4021-6e4dba1930558b2dca28ed17bf875696 ## About the Role Proven expertise designing data fabrics and federated data models that connect distributed biomedical data sources (genomics, clinical, imaging, drug discovery) while maintaining provenance, governance, and optimizing for AI/ML workload consumption-not traditional human dashboards. - Education: MSc in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or a closely related advanced technical field. - Experience: 5+ years in software engineering or computational systems development, preferably in data-heavy or regulated sectors. - Tech Stack: Strong programming skills (Python, Go, Java, or similar) and familiarity with microservice or distributed system architectures. - Infrastructure: Proven experience designing and maintaining production-grade systems (preferably in data-heavy or regulated environments). Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes). - Data & Security: Working ## Description scalable infrastructure that powers our scientific discoveries, ensuring that our data pipelines are not only high-performing but also strictly compliant with European data protection standards. This is a senior individual contributor (IC) role in our engineering framework - ideal for someone who thrives in complex problem-solving, leads implementations for major features, and mentors others in technical excellence. You'll work with distributed systems, APIs, and data services that underpin Lifebit's products - ensuring performance, security, and reliability at scale. Your contributions will directly advance scientific discovery and precision health globally. Your Role and Responsibilities Technical Leadership - Architectural Ownership: Lead the implementation of challenging features across distributed architectures, ensuring systems are performant, maintainable, and secure. - System Integrity: Design software with built-in resilience and observability; balance immediate product, culture of continuous learning. Data & Domain Awareness - Scientific Alignment: Apply your background in bioinformatics or computational biology to ensure solutions align with genomics or clinical data use cases. - Security & Compliance: Build systems that protect sensitive biomedical data, adhering strictly to GDPR (RGPD in Spain), HIPAA, and ISO27001 standards. What You Bring to the Table - Knowledge Graphs & Semantic Layers: Expert in designing biomedical knowledge graphs and semantic data models that make implicit relationships in biomedical data explicit and machine-interpretable for LLMs and AI agents to reason over at scale. - AI/LLM Infrastructure & Context Engineering: Hands-on experience integrating large language models into data systems, building RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) frameworks, and architecting systems where rich metadata, lineage, and business semantics are embedded to enable reliable AI reasoning. - Modern Data Fabric Architecture ## Related Videos - [Modern Data Architectures need Software Engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1030-modern-data-architectures-need-software-engineering) - [Go with the Flow: Stop the Leaks Before Your Memory's a Waterfall!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100073-go-with-the-flow-stop-the-leaks-before-your-memory-s-a-waterfall) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [A Data Mesh needs Open Metadata](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/505-a-data-mesh-needs-open-metadata) - [Scoring 2000 Products per Request: Performance Pitfalls in Golang](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2073-scoring-2000-products-per-request-performance-pitfalls-in-golang) - [Docker build without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100114-docker-build-without-docker) ## Related Articles - [Data Engineer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/253-data-engineer-salary-uk) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [Top-Paying Tech Jobs (with Salaries)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/372-top-paying-tech-jobs-with-salaries) - [Top Big Data Technologies That You Need to Know](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/108-top-big-data-technologies-that-you-need-to-know) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [7 Most Popular Web Developer Jobs in Europe](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/163-7-most-popular-web-developer-jobs-in-europe)