Are you a talented developer looking for a remote job that lets you show your skills and get decent compensation? Join Upstaff.com, a platform that connects you with hand-picked startups and scale-ups in the US and Europe.
What’s the project about?
A pay-per-lead ML-driven platform needs strong data foundations: fast tracking, reliable ingestion, feature freshness, consistent schemas, and robust quality checks. You’ll architect and maintain the infrastructure that makes ML and analytics possible, trustworthy, and optimized.
Requirements are:
- Proven experience building real-time, low-latency data services
- Strong background with modern data stack (e.g., Kafka/Kinesis, Spark/Flink/Beam, Snowfl ake/BigQuery/Redshift)
- Ability to design schemas, ingestion fl ows, and data quality frameworks
- Experience collaborating with ML teams on feature availability and consistency
What will you do?
- Build and maintain real-time data pipelines for performance-based marketing platform
- Design event schemas, ingestion flows, and data quality guardrails
- Help establish an internal feature layer (online/offline consistency)
- Support ML teams with fast, reliable data signals
- Operate high-throughput systems in production environments
Technical skills required:
- Solid Python coding
- Real-time data systems: Kafka/Kinesis, Spark/Flink/Beam
- SQL and data modeling
- Experience building distributed, high-load systems
- Data quality, data validation
- DevOps skills: Docker, monitoring
Nice to have:
- Experience supporting ML systems (feature serving, online/offline consistency)
- Production experience with model inference pipelines
- Strong DevOps experience (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD)
- Experience with cloud-native architectures (AWS/GCP)
- Experience implementing data observability / lineage frameworks
Not your tech stack?
Join the Upstaff community and we are looking for the best project for you. Be ready for the next steps:
- Create your profile on our website (import from LinkedIn)
- 20-30-minute screening call
- Technical interview
- Feedback
- Project Selection (we are looking for the best project for you).
We work with developers from 50+ countries in different regions: Europe, LATAM, the U.S. (W-9 form owners), Canada, Asia (Philippines, Indonesia), Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea), and the the UK.
- We don’t have a legal and ethical basis to accept applicants from the following countries: Russia, Belarus, Iran, North Korea
- We do not provide visa assistance, and our cooperation model does not include the benefits typically offered with direct hire.
Last Updated: February, 2026
