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Senior Data Platform Engineer
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · EU
Experience
Senior · 5+ years
Job description
Data Platform Engineer at FAIRTIQ responsible for driving the development of the company's data platform, including ingestion, storage, transformation and access, as a self-service product for the whole company. The role sits in the Platform team and involves migrating from a legacy data infrastructure to a new platform.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · EU
- Languages
- English – excellent
What you'll do
- Drive FAIRTIQ data platform development - ingestion, storage, transformation and access - as a self-service product for the whole company
- Support the migration from our legacy data infrastructure to the new platform, and decommission the old one
- Provide batch and streaming platform capabilities
- Setup building blocks for data quality, freshness and lineage, with monitoring and alerting that people act on
- Manage data infrastructure as code, deployed through our existing CI/CD and GitOps pipelines
- Build data governance into the platform: retention, access control, pseudonymisation and audit trails that meet GDPR and our operator contracts
- Optimise system performance, cost efficiency and resiliency
- Grow data platform capability across the Platform squad through documentation, pairing and Dojo sessions
- Contribute to Squad-owned topics beyond data, and take part in incident response and postmortems
- Collaborate with backend, mobile and analytics colleagues so platform solutions fit real product and engineering needs
What we're looking for
- BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field
- At least 5 years of professional experience as a Data Platform Engineer or Data Engineer
- Strong Python skills, and the ability to write clean, maintainable, well-tested code
- Proficiency with cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and with data services on them
- Hands-on experience with pipeline orchestration and with a data transformation framework
- Experience with streaming, ideally Kafka - able to reason about ordering, delivery guarantees and schema evolution
- Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools
- Awareness of data protection obligations (GDPR) and how they translate into platform design
- Proactive, organized, and communicative - you enjoy collaborating across disciplines and sharing what you know
- Excellent English communication skills
- EU based
- Have built and operated production data platforms, and think of data as a product with consumers, contracts and SLAs
- Have designed and operated internal developer platforms
- Enjoy solving complex problems that enable other engineers and analysts to move faster and safer
- Have experience with cloud data infrastructure, pipeline orchestration, and infrastructure automation (e.g. Terraform)
- Like thinking in terms of systems, abstractions, and automation
- Care deeply about data quality and cost efficiency, and know that undetected bad data is worse than no data
- Believe that quality and security are not just requirements, but essential attributes of a sustainable engineering culture
- Want to grow beyond data into broader cloud platform engineering, and to bring your team along with you
Nice to have
- Kubernetes and container orchestration experience
- Experience with Open table formats (e.g. Iceberg) or LakeHouse architecture in production
- Experience supporting ML or AI workloads: feature pipelines, training data, model monitoring
- Background in a regulated, financial or mobility domain where correctness had to be auditable
- Experience being the person who made a data platform self-service for others
Your team
Platform team
Responsible for the infrastructure, automation and developer experience that underpin all engineering at FAIRTIQ.
Benefits
- Dynamic and international work environment
- Chance to be part of a fast growing, international startup
- Budget and support for self-improvement
- Creativity and innovation boosters with our "Tech Joker Days" (work on whatever you think may help FAIRTIQ)
- Lots of leadership opportunities (tech, people)
- Flexible working hours & fully remote work
How to get hired
- 1Screening interview with Pedro (from the People Team): ~45 minutes
- 2Tech Screening & Problem Solving interview: 90 minutes
- 3Platform Engineering interview: 60 minutes
- 4Data Engineering interview: 60 minutes
Apply
About FAIRTIQ AG
Key facts
- Supporting more than one million monthly active users
- Millions of public transport journeys
What they value
- Respect
- Inclusion
- Diversity
- Individual empowerment