CareerPlan

Senior Data Platform Engineer

Berlin, BERLINFull-time2026-09-16 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Design and build a centralized data platform enabling contract-driven data publishing, consumption, and governance across operational and analytical systems.

Role type

Senior IC data platform engineer

Builds

Platform services, tools, and workflows for data contracts, CDC pipelines, catalog registration, and GitOps-style data lifecycle management.

Domain

Advertising technology, data infrastructure, distributed systems

Required skills

distributed systems design, PostgreSQL, Kafka, CDC, Debezium, Kubernetes, CLI/internal platform development, GitOps, data modeling, schema evolution

Preferred skills

DataHub, Apache Iceberg, object storage, policy-as-code, infrastructure-as-code, JVM/Python/Go/TypeScript

Technologies

PostgreSQL, Kafka, Debezium, Kubernetes, DataHub, GitOps, S3, BigQuery, ClickHouse

Responsibilities

Design and build platform services for contract-driven data publishing; Implement CDC runtime models with offset management and recovery; Create GitOps workflows for schema and policy validation; Develop tooling for fast feedback on data product changes; Integrate metadata into data catalogs for lineage and discovery; Collaborate with engineering teams to standardize data sharing patterns.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC