Senior Data Platform Engineer

At Flix we offer a dynamic work environment with competitive pay strong growth opportunities and a tech-driven approach to making travel more accessible sustainable and affordable.

Werelooking for a motivated and skilledSenior Data Platform Engineerto join ourCore Data Platform team Foundation Division. You will help us drive the company to the nextlevel andhave the most direct influence on our success.

The team provides tools infrastructureexpertiseand best practices to empower every Flix employee through data excellence and reliable infrastructure. We put our users into the heart of our data platform ensuring that they can easily process discover analyzeshareandleveragedata. We have a constant process of reflecting on our currentwork andadapting new practices and technologies. Our daily work is built on trust and collaboration.

About the Role

• Improve andmaintainour scalable data platform infrastructure on AWS K8s Confluent Cloud and Snowflake ensuring high availability and reliability for all data consumers across the organization
• Collaborate closely with data engineers analysts and product teams to understand their needs and continuously improve the platforms usability and self-service capabilities
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform ensuring our cloud environments are reproducible auditable and well-documented
• Operate and improve our data platform by optimizing workloads for performance cost-efficiency and resilience
• Build and refine CI/CD pipelines (GitLab) to enable fast safe and automated deployments across the data platform
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies and best practices to keep our data platform modern secure and future-proof
• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical documentation sharing knowledge within the team and across the organization
• Implement and maintain comprehensive observability and monitoring (Datadog) creating actionable alerts and dashboards to proactively detect and resolve issues
• Participate in the teams on-call duty schedule

About You

• Strong data architecture experience with a proven track record of solving complex data challenges in large or multi-team organizations
• The right cultural fit: a genuine desire to help colleagues a focus on delivering theright solution over the fast one and comfort with frequent context switching
• Strong Kafka knowledge from architecture and a developers perspective enabling hands-on support for application developers and contributing to our infrastructure
• Extensive experience with scalable data platforms in complex environments including ownership of platform-critical applications
• End-to-end infrastructure ownership CI/CD (GitLab) observability & monitoring (Datadog) with the ability to create meaningful actionable monitors
• Solid Terraform knowledge to confidently navigatemaintain and contribute to our infrastructure-as-code codebase
• On-call experience and a clear mindset that critical issuesdontfollow business hours
• Solid experience with a Cloud Provider (preferably AWS)
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
• Fluent in English with strong technical communication skills adaptable to diverse audiences.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience withSnowflake or comparable cloud data warehouse solutions (e.g. DatabricksBigQuery Redshift)
• Network/Security knowledge ( SAML VPCs network policiesEntraID)
• Previous experience working in acentral or shared data platform team
• Exposure to or interest in AI/ML workloads on data platforms

We recognize that everyone carries a unique set of valuable skills and experiences. If you think you could have an impact even though you dont meet 100% of the requirements we still encourage you to apply. We want to hear from you!

What We Offer

• Travel perks: 12 free Flix vouchers 12 discount vouchers for friends & family.
• Work from (M)Anywhere: Depending on your role work from another location for up to 60 days per year.
• Hybrid work model: We are an office-first company but we offer flexibility to balance work and life.
• Wellbeing support: Access confidential 1:1 counselling courses and stress management for yourself and up to four family members.
• Learning & Development: Take advantage of language classes training courses and expert-led sessions to grow your skills.
• Mentoring Program: Connect with experienced colleagues to gain insights and accelerate your career.

To view more local benefits specific to each office location please check out this link:Locations - Flix Career

Why Join Flix

At Flix youll find teams that rally together to overcome challenges and spark creativity. We believe in ownership culture - giving you the freedom to take initiative make an impact and shape your own career path.
As we continue to expand across the globe you can make a real difference in how we work.

If youre ready to grow and lead your journey Flix is the place for you!