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Backend Engineer – Data (m/w/d)

KarlsruheFull-time2026-11-06 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Designing and developing scalable services to process over 70 million daily measurement data points in real-time for the low-voltage power grid, preparing for 1 billion points/day.

Role type

Senior Backend Engineer (Data)

Builds

Scalable real-time data processing services, APIs for grid operators, and data lake infrastructure.

Domain

Energy grid / Power distribution / Big Data

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Distributed systems, Domain-Driven Design, Kafka, ClickHouse, Databricks, SQL, Postgres, Kubernetes, Azure, Cloud-native development, Stream Processing, MQTT

Preferred skills

Kotlin, Java, AI coding tools (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor), Stream Processing, MQTT

Technologies

Kafka, ClickHouse, Databricks, Postgres, Kubernetes, Azure, Grafana, Loki, Tempo

Responsibilities

Design and develop scalable services for real-time measurement data processing; define domain models and data schemas; build and maintain APIs for data consumption; operate services in production with observability; drive technical architecture decisions; write tests and conduct code reviews.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC