We are growing our Data Team and looking for a Data Engineer with a Platform Focus to own and operate core infrastructure components of our internal Data Platform. You'll work independently on containerized services, open-source query engines, and observability stacks - contributing directly to the reliability and scalability of the platform that powers our data products.
Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with Data Engineers to support and help shape data engineering standards, covering areas like pipeline design, data quality and lineage
- Contribute to data governance practices by ensuring platform components align with ownership, access and observability requirements
- Own deployments for assigned platform components and maintain version-controlled infrastructure modules
- Design, deploy, and operate containerized services using Docker and Kubernetes
- Manage and tune open-source query engine deployments for reliability and performance
- Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting stacks for platform services
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines for platform service delivery and infrastructure automation
- Evaluate and integrate open-source data file format libraries, document architecture decisions for owned components and investigate and resolve platform incidents
Requirements:
- A university degree, ideally in Computer Science or related science, technology or engineering field
- 2+ years of relevant work experience in data engineering or data platform engineering roles
- Working knowledge of data engineering concepts - data acquisition, modeling, orchestration, warehousing, laking, data quality, lineage and governance
- Strong knowledge of Python and SQL
- Understanding of open-source query engine architecture and configuration
- Practical knowledge of columnar data formats - internals and trade-offs
- Proficiency in Docker
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and service delivery
- Awareness of microservice design patterns
Good to Have:
- Experience with on-prem infrastructure
- Experience with observability tooling
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes
- Experience in C++ / Rust
What we offer:
- Private health insurance & team building activities
- Flexible working hours
- FitPass
- Various opportunities for professional development in an international company
- Working in a collaborative, diverse, and socially responsible team
If you are interested in this position, we look forward to receiving your complete application. Please submit your cover letter and CV. We look forward to welcoming you to our Belgrade office.
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