Senior Database Developer Data Platform Engineer

Location: Tagus Park Portugal
Work Model: Hybrid 3 days on-site
Contract: Full-time
Salary: gross/year 14 salaries
Relocation: No relocation support provided

We are looking for a Senior Database Developer / Data Platform Engineer to design and evolve the data foundation supporting an advanced Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) platform.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on database architecture data modelling operational data analytics performance and platform scalability.

• Design and evolve data models for orders robot states missions routes events telemetry configuration and execution history
• Build reliable scalable database structures for real-time and analytical use cases
• Optimize queries indexing partitioning migrations and data lifecycle management
• Support backend services algorithms dashboards analytics and reporting
• Develop analytics-ready datasets and KPI structures
• Ensure data quality consistency auditability and traceability
• Work with Backend Algorithm Robotics Frontend DevOps QA and Product teams
• Support database reliability monitoring backups and production performance

• Strong SQL and database engineering experience
• Excellent knowledge of relational database design ideally PostgreSQL
• Strong understanding of schema design indexing transactions constraints migrations and query optimization
• Experience designing data models for operational and production systems
• Understanding of real-time/near-real-time data and concurrency
• Experience with data quality integrity auditability and historical data
• Strong software engineering practices: Git testing CI/CD
• Experience with APIs and backend integration
• Docker/Linux experience
• Python Rust or another backend language is a strong advantage

• AMR/AGV robotics logistics warehouse automation or industrial software experience
• TimescaleDB InfluxDB Redis Kafka NATS MQTT or event-driven architectures
• Data warehouses BI analytics platforms or semantic layers
• Kubernetes/cloud-native environments
• Multi-tenant or multi-site systems
• Simulation digital twins replay or operational benchmarking

This is not a pure DBA or reporting role.

The ideal candidate must be able to understand how database architecture impacts real-time execution system reliability analytics product performance and long-term scalability.

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