CareerPlan

Associate Data Platform Engineer

Cape TownFull-time2026-10-21 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Build and operate large-scale distributed data systems (TB–PB scale) for analytics, ML, and data products using Scala, Python, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, and BigQuery on GCP.

Role type

Associate Data Platform Engineer

Builds

Batch and streaming data pipelines, platform configuration, observability dashboards, and data quality monitoring frameworks

Domain

Digital marketing technology / Data Infrastructure

Required skills

Scala, Python, SQL, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, BigQuery, GCP, Git, distributed systems, debugging

Preferred skills

CI/CD, infrastructure as code, data formats (Parquet, Avro, JSON), dbt, BI tooling

Technologies

Scala, Python, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, BigQuery, GCP, Cloud Storage, Astronomer

Responsibilities

Develop batch and streaming pipeline components; configure platform components (tables, partitioning, storage); build monitoring dashboards and alerting; shadow on-call rotation and debug incidents; implement data quality checks; follow security and cost governance practices

Seniority

Associate, early career with mentorship