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Hire a Data Engineer in LATAM & South Africa

Our data engineers from LATAM and South Africa bring strong foundations in SQL, Python, Spark, and modern cloud data platforms. They can build and maintain the data infrastructure that powers your analytics and ML systems.

From $4,200/mo

US / UK Cost

$130,000–$180,000/yr

With Nexus

$50,400–$72,000/yr

You Save

~55%

Why hire a Data Engineer in LATAM & South Africa

Strong university programs in LATAM and South Africa produce data engineers with solid CS fundamentals.

Experience with modern data stacks (Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, BigQuery).

Timezone overlap enables real-time collaboration on data-critical pipelines.

How we vet for this role

1

SQL proficiency assessment (complex queries, optimization)

2

Python/Spark data pipeline design evaluation

3

Cloud platform knowledge (AWS, GCP, Azure)

4

Data modeling and schema design review

5

Communication and documentation quality

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