Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a Senior Data Engineer for a full-time position (40 hours per week) in Colombia, Mexico.
You'll take full ownership of a Python/Scrapy-based legal/regulatory data ingestion pipeline. This role combines large-scale data engineering, advanced web scraping against hostile sources, complex legal document processing, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure design. It also includes maintenance of a React frontend application.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering or backend development, with a focus on production pipelines.
- Strong experience in Python, including production web scraping (Scrapy or equivalent) and structured-data processing.
- Practical understanding of defeating or working around anti-bot measures (rate limiting, Cloudflare, paywalled/gated legal databases) within legal and ethical bounds.
- Understanding of relational and non-relational databases; schema design for hierarchical data.
- Solid understanding of SQL and data modeling,



with the judgment to design schemas that serve both change detection and human-readable display.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), and containers (Docker).
- Knowledge of Microsoft Azure, including VMs, Blob storage, App Service plans, and container services, with the ability to provision and tear down resources programmatically.
- Knowledge of search architectures (full-text, semantic search — Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or vector DBs).
- Familiarity with messaging/notification systems (email APIs, Slack/Teams webhooks).
- Understanding of Infrastructure-as-code for repeatable, automated deployments.
- Be comfortable owning a system end-to-end with minimal hand-holding, including reading and improving inherited code and documentation.
- The ability to take ownership of complex legacy systems without extensive documentation.
- Meticulous attention to detail: this work handles legal text where structural precision is

📌 SENIOR DATA ENGINEER (Colombia)
🏢 Svitla Systems
📍 Colombia