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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Medior/Senior Data Engineer - **Company:** Xite'ers - **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands - **Experience:** Experienced - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Airflow, Data Analysis, Big Data, Databases, Data as a Services, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Structures, Data Systems, Shard (Database Architecture), Distributed Systems, Elasticsearch, Github, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Online Analytical Processing, NoSQL, Octopus Deploy, Open Source Technology, Ansible, Scala (Programming Language), Service Development Studio, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Circleci, Google Cloud, Data Storage Technologies, Apache Spark, Backend, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Vertica, Data Pipelines, Docker - **Published:** September 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/medior-senior-data-engineer-xite-8004416 ## About the Role * 3+ years of professional experience as a Data Engineer, Software Engineer, or similar role working with large-scale data systems and infrastructure. * Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or relevant field, or equivalent practical experience. * Proficiency in Python and/or Scala with strong software engineering skills. * Experience designing, building, and optimizing large-scale data pipelines in distributed environments using tools such as Kafka, ClickHouse, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Spark, etc. * Deep understanding of data architecture principles, including replication, sharding, consistency, scaling (horizontal and vertical), quorum, and idempotency. * Proven ability to improve pipeline performance, cost-efficiency, and usability. * Experience mentoring team members and leading technical projects is a plus. * Basic knowledge of analytics and machine learning concepts is a plus. * Excellent analytical, communication skills, and fluent in English (both spoken and written). Our tech stack * Python, Scala. * AirFlow, Kafka, ClickHouse, GCP. * Bazel, Docker, Kubernetes. * Github, CircleCI, ArgoCD, Ansible, Superset, and many other, mostly open source, technologies. * SQL, NoSQL and DBMS/OLAP. ## Description In this role you will help shape the performance and architecture of our modern data stack, working with tools like AirFlow, Kafka, Python and Kubernetes to build scalable, high-impact data solutions in close collaboration with our engineering (backend, machine learning, etc) and non-engineering (such as marketing, finance, legal, etc) teams., We are looking for a passionate Senior/Medior Data Engineer to join our team. You will be responsible for the overall performance and architecture of our Data Stack, as well as software and service development within the data domain. Our stack includes Python 3.14, Scala, Kafka, Airflow, ClickHouse, Docker, Bazel, Kubernetes, GCP, GitHub, CircleCI, Superset and many other, mostly open-source, technologies., * Design, develop, deploy, scale and maintain ETLs, AirFlow data pipelines and data services in production. * Resolve problems, with end-to-end ownership of data quality in our core datasets and data pipelines. * Design data models, tables, data structures, improve on data storage architecture and queries performance across various business domains within the company. * Assist colleagues across technical challenges. * Review, maintain, refactor and extend distributed systems in production. Support other teams for usage and integration with those systems. * Maintain the technical excellence of the data and software engineering practice. * Work with the Product Manager and other stakeholders, taking part in forming, prioritizing and executing data engineering backlog., * Second Interview: You will be meeting with the hiring manager, where you will discuss the role and team more in depth. * Technical Interview: You will be meeting with a team member and you can ask questions as well. * Final interview: with one of our MT members: in this final interview you will meet one of our MT members responsible for the Data Engineering team. * Reference check: We ask you for 2 references that we can give a call and ask a few questions as a part of our hiring process. * Offer: Hopefully with our offer, we can welcome you to the team of XITE! ## Related Videos - [From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100203-from-messy-queries-to-scalable-systems-how-data-engineering-actually-works) - [Innovating Developer Tools with AI: Insights from GitHub Next](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1268-innovating-developer-tools-with-ai-insights-from-github-next) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Leveraging Real time data in FSIs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/806-leveraging-real-time-data-in-fsis) - [Bringing AI Model Testing and Prompt Management to Your Codebase with GitHub Models](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1536-bringing-ai-model-testing-and-prompt-management-to-your-codebase-with-github-models) - [Docker build without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100114-docker-build-without-docker) ## Related Articles - [Data Engineer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/253-data-engineer-salary-uk) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Software Developer Salary in The Netherlands [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/217-software-developer-salary-in-the-netherlands-2023) - [Software Engineer Salary London](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/252-software-engineer-salary-london) - [Top-Paying Tech Jobs (with Salaries)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/372-top-paying-tech-jobs-with-salaries)