Senior Data Platform Engineer
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Berlin, Germany
2 months ago
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Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source
Tech stack
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
Artificial Intelligence
Airflow
BigQuery
Data Infrastructure
Extract Transform Load (ETL)
Python (Programming Language)
Query Optimization
Data Streaming
Snowflake
Containerization
Kubernetes
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Druid
Apache Flink
Apache Kafka
Vertica
Terraform
Docker
Databricks
Job description
As part of the Platform tribe, you will help build a self-service, AI-Ready Data Platform. The Data Platform team supports our next big bets: Data, AI, and real-time analytics. We are a team focused on building scalable, reliable infrastructure to enable our global data community.
What you’ll do
- Build and maintain best-in-class data infrastructure for critical processes.
- Develop features that strengthen self-service, including for ETL and orchestration.
- Optimise processes to use compute more efficiently and reduce cost.
- Automate operations so the platform stays highly available.
- Contribute to the design and implementation of new services.
Requirements
Do you have experience in Terraform?, * Have experience with infrastructure as code and containerisation (e.g. Terraform, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes).
- Have used modern query engines (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Trino).
- Have worked with modern data orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow, Dagster).
- Are proficient in at least one of our main languages: Python or Go.
- Bring a pragmatic, team-first mindset.
- Are self-motivated, work well independently, and can balance stakeholder needs.
Nice to have
- Experience building and operating performant API layers.
- Experience with dbt for transform, test, and documentation workflows.
- Query optimization at scale.
- Real-time streaming (e.g. Kafka, Flink, StarRocks, Pinot, Druid, ClickHouse).
- Experience with systems at petabyte scale.
- Experience implementing AI-enabled systems (e.g. agentic SRE, AI automation).
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