Data Engineer

We are growing our Data Team and looking for aData Engineer with a Platform Focusto own and operate core infrastructure components of our internal Data Platform. You'll work independently on containerized services, open-source query engines, and observability stacks - contributing directly to the reliability and scalability of the platform that powers our data products.

This is a hands-on engineering role with real ownership: you'll manage deployments end-to-end, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, and help shape how the platform evolves.

Tasks & Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Data Engineers to support and help shape data engineering standards - covering areas like pipeline design, data quality, and lineage
• Contribute to data governance practices by ensuring platform components align with ownership, access, and observability requirements
• Own deployments for assigned platform components and maintain version-controlled infrastructure modules
• Design, deploy, and operate containerized services using Docker and Kubernetes
• Manage and tune open-source query engine deployments for reliability and performance
• Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting stacks for platform services
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines for platform service delivery and infrastructure automation
• Evaluate and integrate open-source data file format libraries
• Document architecture decisions for owned components
• Investigate and resolve platform incidents

• A university degree, ideally in Computer Science or a related science, technology or engineering field.
• 2+ years of relevant work experience in data engineering or data platform engineering roles.
• Working knowledge of data engineering concepts - data acquisition, modeling, orchestration, warehousing, laking, data quality, lineage and governance
• Strong knowledge of Python and SQL
• Understanding of open-source query engine architecture and configuration
• Practical knowledge of columnar data formats - internals and trade-offs
• Proficiency in Docker
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and service delivery
• Awareness of microservice design patterns, * Experience with on-prem infrastructure
• Experience with observability tooling
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes
• Experience in C++ / Rust

What we offer

• Be part of a dynamic and innovative team at the forefront of data technology
• Work in a collaborative environment that values creativity and diversity
• Competitive salary
• Private medical care (fully covered)
• MultiSport card (partially covered)
• Team building activities

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