Senior Data Platform Engineer

About the Role

• Improve and maintain our scalable data platform infrastructure on AWS, K8s, Confluent Cloud and Snowflake, ensuring high availability and reliability for all data consumers across the organization

• Collaborate closely with data engineers, analysts, and product teams to understand their needs and continuously improve the platform's usability and self-service capabilities

• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, ensuring our cloud environments are reproducible, auditable, and well-documented

• Operate and improve our data platform by optimizing workloads for performance, cost-efficiency, and resilience

• Build and refine CI/CD pipelines (GitLab) to enable fast, safe, and automated deployments across the data platform

• Evaluate and introduce new technologies and best practices to keep our data platform modern, secure, and future-proof

• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical documentation, sharing knowledge within the team and across the organization

• Implement and maintain comprehensive observability and monitoring (Datadog), creating actionable alerts and dashboards to proactively detect and resolve issues

• Participate in the team's on-call duty schedule

About You

• Strong data architecture experience, with a proven track record of solving complex data challenges in large or multi-team organizations

• The right cultural fit: a genuine desire to help colleagues, a focus on delivering the right solution over the fast one, and comfort with frequent context switching

• Strong Kafka knowledge from architecture and a developer's perspective, enabling hands-on support for application developers and contributing to our infrastructure

• Extensive experience with scalable data platforms in complex environments, including ownership of platform-critical applications

• End-to-end infrastructure ownership — CI/CD (GitLab), observability & monitoring (Datadog) — with the ability to create meaningful, actionable monitors

• Solid Terraform knowledge to confidently navigate, maintain, and contribute to our infrastructure-as-code codebase

• On-call experience and a clear mindset that critical issues don't follow business hours

• Solid experience with a Cloud Provider (preferably AWS)

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes

• Fluent in English, with strong technical communication skills adaptable to diverse audiences.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with Snowflake or comparable cloud data warehouse solutions (e.g., Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift)

• Network/Security knowledge (e.g. SSO, SAML, VPCs, network policies, EntraID)

• Previous experience working in a central or shared data platform team

• Exposure to or interest in AI/ML workloads on data platforms