Senior Data Platform Engineer

What you’ll do

You’ll be asked to both build new tools and improve the existing tooling. This role is perfect for you if you're passionate about few of the following:

• Develop and maintain scalable and high performance big data platforms.

• Work with distributed systems in all shapes and flavors (databases, file systems, compute, etc.)

• Identify opportunities to improve continuous release and deployment environments

• Build or deploy tools to enhance data discoverability through the collection and presentation of metadata

• Introduce and extend tools to enhance the quality of our data, platform-wide

• Explore and introduce technologies and practices to reduce the time to insight for analysts and data scientists

• Develop streaming processing applications and frameworks

• Experience in infrastructure and large-scale private cloud systems

• At least 6+ years experience with Python object oriented programming.

• Team player with strong communication skills

• Ability to work closely with diverse stakeholders you enable (analysts, data scientists, data engineers, etc.) and depend upon (infrastructure, security, etc).

• Experience developing and maintaining:

• Distributed data and compute systems like Spark, Trino, Druid, etc

• Data modelling tooling

• Dev Ops pipelines and development ecosystems.

• Real-time and batch data pipelines (via Kafka, Spark streaming) with an eye for frameworks, and emphasis on user friendliness and quality.

• Kubernetes ecosystem (k8s, docker), and/or Hadoop ecosystems (Hive, Yarn, HDFS, Kerberos).

Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at the company.

Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you?

Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.

This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.