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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Engineer II - **Company:** Booking.com - **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands - **Experience:** Experienced - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Airflow, Cloud Storage, Information Engineering, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Warehousing, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Software Tools, Data Processing, Snowflake, Apache Spark, Caching, Reliability of Systems, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Data Pipelines - **Published:** June 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://nl.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b4f631fd6ed3a8f0 ## About the Role Do you have experience in Spark?, Do you have a Master's degree?, You have 3-5 years of relevant professional experience as a Data Engineer, Software Engineer or in a similar data-focused role, and hold a Master's degree in a quantitative field. * Proven knowledge of Python is required; experience with Java or Scala is a plus. * You have hands-on experience building and operating production-grade data pipelines and data processing systems in cloud and hybrid environments, with a strong focus on scalability, reliability and data quality. * You have experience designing systems end to end and a solid understanding of architecture fundamentals such as APIs, distributed systems, storage, caching, data modeling and system reliability. * You have practical experience with modern data and orchestration technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Snowflake, DBT, CDC patterns, cloud storage and related data engineering tools. * You have experience working with data warehousing and ETL/ELT pipelines, and understand how to model, transform and expose data so it can be trusted and effectively used by analytics, product and machine learning stakeholders. * You are comfortable owning data products and services in production, including monitoring, incident response, root cause analysis, documentation and on-call support where required. * You are able to balance business needs, technical constraints and long-term maintainability when evaluating solutions, and you actively look for opportunities to improve process efficiency, platform quality and engineering standards. * Excellent communication skills are essential; you are able to work effectively with developers, product managers, ML scientists and ML engineers, and translate requirements into robust technical solutions that enable high-quality data products. ## Description As a Data Engineer, you will be in charge of the development, performance, quality, and scaling of our data pipelines, focusing especially on data quality. 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