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# Senior Data Engineer

- **Company:** adjust GmbH
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Databases, Database Queries, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Ansible, Ruby, SQL Databases, Grafana, Git, Software Version Control, Data Pipelines, Database Tools and Utilities, Golang
- **Published:** August 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.de/details/5856979800

## About the Role

* Proven track record as a Data Engineer for high transactional PostgreSQL databases
 * Knowledge or willingness to learn Go/Python
 * Knowledge of any Infra management tools (preferably Ansible)
 * Knowledge of version control system (git)
 * Knowledge of observability tools
 * Familiarity with C is a plus
 * Solid research skills

## Description

As a Senior Data Engineer (PostgreSQL development), you will be developing and maintaining databases, aggregation pipelines and extensions for public API directly used by our clients and our internal products. This is a highly scalable product! The API is querying and serving ~5m/req/day from databases distributed over 182 servers. You will be working in a cross-functional team focusing on offering a fast and customer focused experience to our clients.

Empower Your Potential/ Responsibilities:

 * Improve and optimize our architecture and suggest improvements to current processes and structures
 * Willingness to research and propose cutting edge solution to provide better customer experience
 * Maintain and expand our database management tools
 * PostgreSQL maintenance on a very high transaction rate
 * PostgreSQL custom extensions building and maintaining (C, SQL, PL/pgsql)
 * Maintain and develop data pipelines (C, Go, Ruby, SQL, PL/pgsql)
 * Database query development and optimization


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