Senior Data Engineer
Job Summary
Job Description
Progress is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join their AI First team. The role involves transforming unstructured content like documentation and knowledge-base articles into high-quality, AI-ready data for their products. Responsibilities include designing and maintaining scalable data pipelines, processing and analyzing large datasets for AI model embedding and fine-tuning, validating and cleaning data, preparing data for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows, building and optimizing database pipeline architectures, implementing data governance and security, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to ground-truth datasets for Gen-AI features.
Must have:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field.
- 3-5 years of experience as a Data Engineer or Data Scientist.
- Proficiency with big data systems (Spark, Kafka, VectorDB).
- Strong SQL and Python skills.
- Hands-on experience with MS Azure.
- Solid understanding of machine learning fundamentals.
Good to have:
- Experience in a cloud environment.
- Knowledge of data science workflows and libraries.
- Familiarity with text-processing/ML libraries (pandas, PySpark, Hugging Face).
- Exposure to vector search technologies (pgvector, Pinecone, Milvus, Azure AI Search).
- Effective communication and collaboration abilities.
Perks:
- Generous remuneration package
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- 30 days paid annual vacation
- Extra day off for birthday
- 2 additional days off for volunteering
- Premium healthcare and dental care coverage
- Additional pension insurance
- Well-equipped gym on-site with CrossFit equipment and a climbing wall
- Co-funded Multisport card
- Daycare Center onsite
- Flexible working hours
- Opportunity to work from home
- Free underground parking with designated space for bikes and electric scooters
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Job Details
We are Progress (Nasdaq: PRGS) - an experienced, trusted provider of products designed with customers in mind so they can develop the applications they need, deploy where and how they want, and manage it all safely and securely.
We’re proud to have a diverse, global team where we value the individual and enrich our culture by considering varied perspectives because we believe people power progress. Join us as a Senior Data Engineer and help us do what we do best: propelling business forward.
We’re proud to have a diverse, global team where we value the individual and enrich our culture by considering varied perspectives because we believe people power progress. Join us as a Senior Data Engineer and help us do what we do best: propelling business forward.
We are seeking an experienced and driven Data Engineer to join our AI First team, part of Web Components and Tools division. In this role, you will turn large volumes of unstructured content - documentation, knowledge-base articles, API references, etc. into high-quality, AI-ready data that powers our products.
In this role, you will:
In this role, you will:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines for collecting, ingesting, transforming and monitoring text data from multiple sources.
- Process and analyze large datasets to support AI model embedding and fine-1922574463tuning.
- Validate, clean and categorize data to ensure quality, security and usability; surface anomalies and gaps through automated checks.
- Prepare data for RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) workflows by splitting and chunking documents, managing metadata, and ensuring smooth integration with vector stores.
- Build and optimize database pipeline architectures for performance and reliability
- Implement data governance and security best practices.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver data solutions aligned with business goals.
- Contribute to the creation of ground-truth datasets and evaluation harnesses for future Gen-AI features.
- Stay current with emerging AI tools and trends to drive innovation.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
- 3–5 years of experience as a Data Engineer or Data Scientist, preferably in a cloud environment.
- Proficiency with big data systems and tools (e.g., Apache Spark, Kafka, VectorDB).
- Knowledge of data science workflows and libraries
- Strong SQL and Python skills; familiarity with text-processing/ML libraries (pandas, PySpark, Hugging Face).
- Hands-on experience with cloud platform, especially MS Azure.
- Exposure to vector search technologies (e.g., pgvector, Pinecone, Milvus, Azure AI Search).
- Solid understanding of machine learning fundamentals
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Effective communication and collaboration abilities.
If this sounds like you and fits your experience and career goals, we’d be happy to chat.
What we offer in return is the opportunity to experience a great company culture with wonderful colleagues to learn from and collaborate with and also to enjoy:
Compensation
What we offer in return is the opportunity to experience a great company culture with wonderful colleagues to learn from and collaborate with and also to enjoy:
Compensation
- Generous remuneration package
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan Enrollment
- 30 days paid annual vacation
- An extra day off for your birthday
- 2 additional days off for volunteering
- Premium healthcare and dental care coverage
- Additional pension insurance
- Well-equipped gym on-site with CrossFit equipment and a climbing wall
- Co-funded Multisport card
- Daycare Center for your little ones onsite
- Flexible working hours and the opportunity to work from home.
- Free underground parking with a designated space for bikes and electric scooters
Apply now!
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About The Company
Progress (Nasdaq: PRGS) empowers organizations to achieve transformational success in the face of disruptive change. Our software enables our customers to develop, deploy and manage responsible AI-powered applications and experiences with agility and ease. Customers get a trusted provider in
Progress, with the products, expertise and vision they need to succeed. Over 4 million developers and technologists at hundreds of thousands of enterprises depend on Progress. Learn more at www.progress.com.
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