data engineer for restaurant booking

• Design and implement scalable, production-grade data pipelines using version control, CI/CD, automated testing, and observability;
• Lead the evolution of Airflow orchestration patterns to improve scalability, reliability, and maintainability;
• Drive technical POCs to evaluate new tools, architectural patterns, and performance improvements aligned with the platform roadmap;
• Contribute to shaping and validating the target data architecture with Architects, Staff Engineers, and DataOps;
• Identify system weaknesses, design for failure, and define mitigation strategies and resilience patterns;
• Implement and enforce data contracts and quality controls aligned with defined SLOs;
• Apply data modeling best practices, including medallion architecture, to create trusted and reusable data assets;
• Establish domain ownership principles and clear single sources of truth;
• Embed lineage, metadata, and observability mechanisms in all pipelines;
• Drive technical alignment across teams through documentation, standards, and mentoring;
• Partner with DataOps on infrastructure, CI/CD, and platform automation at scale;
• Support product and engineering teams in adopting the platform with a focus on developer experience;
• Build cross-functional relationships to accelerate adoption and platform impact;
• Lead initiatives end-to-end from problem framing to production rollout;
• Structure complex technical problems into actionable plans and manage cross-team dependencies;
• Make architectural trade-offs balancing scalability, cost, reliability, and time-to-market;
• Take ownership of platform stability and continuously improve operational excellence;
• Mentor and help other engineers grow through technical guidance and feedback.

• At least 6 years of data engineering experience, including significant exposure to production-grade data platforms and cross-team leadership;
• Deep hands-on experience with a modern cloud lakehouse in production-grade environments, such as Snowflake or Databricks;
• Strong expertise in analytical data modeling, including medallion architecture, and safe schema evolution;
• Proven experience designing scalable, incremental ELT pipelines;
• Strong understanding of MPP systems and distributed data processing principles;
• Experience optimizing query performance and compute costs in cloud data warehouses;
• Cost-aware design mindset;
• Advanced experience with Airflow, including scalable DAG design, dependency management, and failure handling strategies;
• Strong experience designing and operating production-grade ELT pipelines with modern integration tools such as Airbyte or similar, or custom ingestion frameworks;
• Strong experience with AWS-based data architectures, including S3, IAM, and networking fundamentals;
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform;
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for data workflows;
• Understanding of security-by-design principles in cloud data environments;
• Experience implementing data quality frameworks, data contracts, and validation strategies;
• Strong understanding of metadata management, lineage tracking, and monitoring practices;
• Experience embedding observability and reliability into pipelines, including alerting, SLOs, and incident response;
• Nice to have: Experience designing self-service data platform capabilities.

• Competitive fixed salary and bonus;
• Lunch vouchers for each working day;
• Lifestyle benefits reimbursing physical and leisure activities, family support, travel, and other expenses;
• Continuous learning and development programs;
• Free access to the Calm app;
• Dedicated parental leave and caregiver leave policies, including 12 weeks fully paid;
• Health insurance;
• Life and disability insurance at no cost to the employee;
• International teams and a multicultural environment across 10 offices in Europe;
• Inclusive working environment;
• Team building events.

full_time

Organization Enfint

TheFork is a leading restaurant booking platform in Europe that connects diners with restaurants and creates dining experiences across 11 countries. It is part of the Tripadvisor Group.