South helps growing companies find, hire, and pay top Latin American talent. Build high-performing teams in 21 days or less.
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A full data team usually involves more than engineers and scientists. Schema design and performance tuning fall to a Database Developer or a SQL Developer. At scale, you'll want a Big Data Architect to design the platform and an ETL Developer to move data reliably between systems. Modern cloud warehouses call for a Snowflake Developer. On the consumption side, a Power BI Developer or a Business Intelligence Developer ships the dashboards, while an Analytics Specialist interprets the numbers for the business.
A Data Engineer builds the pipelines, models, and infrastructure that turn raw events and source-system data into something analysts and ML engineers can actually use. They write the dbt models, orchestrate the Airflow DAGs, manage the warehouse, and partner with software engineers on event schema. Good data engineers think about pipeline reliability the same way good software engineers think about service uptime: idempotent, observable, and easy to backfill when something breaks.
An average U.S. Data Engineer earns $10,800 per month compared with an average Latin American salary of $3,500 per month, creating potential savings of up to 68%. LatAm data engineers regularly come out of fintech, e-commerce, and B2B SaaS shops running modern Snowflake/dbt/Airflow stacks at meaningful scale.
Yes. South contracts the engineer locally, runs payroll and compliance, and bills you monthly. They get warehouse access, GitHub, and on-call rotation day one. The role works well remote because the work is documentation-heavy (DAGs, models, runbooks) and the output is metric-driven (pipeline SLA, freshness, cost).
Strong SQL, Python fluency, dbt or equivalent transformation experience, orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect), warehouse depth (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Databricks), and the judgment to know when to use streaming vs. batch. Ask them to walk through a pipeline they built end to end. Look for someone who talks about cost and reliability, not just tools.
Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Databricks as the warehouse, dbt for transformation, Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect for orchestration, Fivetran, Stitch, or custom connectors for ingestion, Python for scripting, and Git plus GitHub Actions for CI/CD. Familiarity with Spark or Kafka for streaming workloads.
A Data Engineer builds the system; a Data Analyst uses it. Engineers own the warehouse, the DAGs, and the schema. Analysts own the dashboards, the cohort analyses, and the executive memos. Engineers think about cost and reliability; analysts think about insight and decision. Most small teams combine them into an analytics engineer until the data org is 4+ people; once you split, the engineer should never have to build a Tableau dashboard.
South vets LatAm candidates through structured interviews, paid work samples, and reference checks. You see a shortlist in seven to ten days, run your own interviews, and onboard inside two to three weeks. South handles the contract, monthly payments, and a replacement guarantee if the hire is not a fit. Schedule a free call here to get started!
The region has the perfect mix of everything you want in remote employees: English skills, shared time zones, hard-working, and depth of talent. They are already accustomed to working remotely for top US startups and Fortune 500 companies.
Absolutely! The US and Latin America have basically the same time zones. No Latin American city is more than two hours ahead of EST.
Every hire is sourced based on your exact needs. They will arrive ready to support your business right away. They can do basically any tasks done remotely, but we recommend starting them as support so your team has more bandwidth for high-value strategic tasks.
All types of roles - customer service, executive assistant, sales, accounting, email marketing, lead generation, content writers, operations, social media marketing, and more!
You can pay directly through us (most popular) or we can connect you with one of our payroll partners.
You don't have to deal with any American labor laws / taxes when hiring full-time remote contractors. They aren't US-based, so no visas or sponsorships to deal with either.
We recommend market pay which varies for each role. See our salary guide and success stories for some ideas.
Then, we have two different models:
Staffing (most popular) - We charge a small monthly fee for each employee's monthly salary to make the process hassle-free. The fee covers sourcing, recruiting, admin, payroll, compliance, ongoing support, and a free replacement if necessary at any point. There are no cancellation fees or minimum commitments. You only pay if you make a hire.
Headhunting - A one-time simple fee once we've found the perfect candidate. This comes with a 120-day replacement guarantee.
For both options, you only pay something if we find you someone great that you want to hire.
Yes, we only recruit for full-time and we strongly recommend full-time hiring if you can. Stability (full-time & long-term) is highly sought after abroad. The top caliber candidates are only looking for full-time work.
You're also going to spend time training and getting them up to speed on your processes. It would be a waste to do that over and over again with new people all the time.
We recommend training new hires on one thing at a time.
For example, once they get up to speed on lead generation, you can add the next role writing blog posts or whatever you'd like. You can definitely overlap roles until you have enough work for multiple people.
The cost of living is much less in Latin American countries. Many of our employees are able to own homes, raise families, provide for their parents, and have in-home help of their own with their salaries.
If you aren't happy with your hire in the first 120 days, we will work with you to conduct a second round of search for the same role for free.
Just email us at Hello@HireInSouth.com and we will get back to you with an answer as soon as possible.
