CareerPlan

Data Platform Engineer

Cape TownFull-time2026-10-05 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Design and build scalable batch and streaming pipelines at TB-scale, ensuring data reliability, performance, and cost-effectiveness for the Data Analytics Group.

Role type

Senior IC Data Platform Engineer

Builds

Scalable ETL/ELT and streaming pipelines, platform infrastructure, and self-service capabilities for analytics engineers, analysts, and data scientists.

Domain

Digital commerce marketing technology / Big Data Engineering

Required skills

Distributed systems engineering, Python, Scala, Spark (batch/streaming), Kafka, Pub/Sub, Advanced SQL, Workflow orchestration (Airflow), Cloud platform expertise (GCP), Infrastructure as code, Security and governance, CI/CD, Mentoring

Preferred skills

Terraform, Legacy platform migration, dbt/Astronomer, JVM tuning, Observability tooling (Grafana/Datadog), Dataflow/BigTable

Technologies

Scala, Spark, Kafka, Pub/Sub, Airflow, Astronomer, BigQuery, Dataproc, Cloud Storage, Terraform, dbt, Grafana, Datadog

Responsibilities

Design and build scalable ETL/ELT and streaming pipelines; Configure and maintain core platform infrastructure; Own and track SLOs and implement monitoring/alerting; Implement security, governance, and self-service capabilities; Mentor Associate Data Platform Engineers.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC