Senior Data Platform Engineer (Central Data Lake) (all genders)

Berlin - Germany

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

THE ROLE & THE TEAM

The Data Platform organization is providing Zalando with a reliable and secure environment for storing and processing data. We drive data engineering productivity and data security through interoperable services for data transformation storage serving exchange and orchestration as well as data access management metadata management and data discovery. Within the Data Platform organization the Data Repository team is responsible for managing the petabyte scale Data Lake and Mesh of Zalando providing pipelines and tooling to ensure security and compliance.

Find out more about our Software Engineering team here:
BY DESIGN

At Zalando our vision is to be the leading pan-European ecosystem for fashion and lifestyle e-commerce - one that is inclusive by design. We only assess candidates based on qualifications merit and business needs. We welcome applications from people of all gender identities sexual orientations personal expressions racial identities ethnicities religious beliefs and disability statuses. We only want to know why youre great for this role so please avoid including your picture age and marital status in your CV as well.

We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Please feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need so we can best support and assist you throughout the hiring process.

- our diversity & inclusion strategy: WED LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)

Work within Zalandos Central Data Lake team providing mission-critical data services for the whole Zalando group
Design build and maintain data pipelines that materialize event streams to Zalandos Central Data Lake
Design build and maintain services that ensure the security compliance and reliability of Zalandos Data Platforms and Systems
Support our strategy and come up with innovative ideas to build world-class data transformation systems one step ahead of the industry
Consult and help our diverse teams across the Zalando group to develop implement and maintain sustainable high-performance and scalable data-processing and data integration systems

WED LOVE TO MEET YOU IF

You have more than 5 years of experience in designing and developing data processing and data platform services
You have experience in operating data processing and data platform services in production
You have experience with Apache Spark or other distributed data processing frameworks (e.g. Flink Beam)
You possess a track record in using and promoting software development best practices such as source control continuous integration and continuous deployment test-driven development and elastic cloud architectures (AWS Google Cloud or Azure)
You are proficient in at least one of the languages: Python Scala Java and you are comfortable working with SQL
You have a strong understanding of distributed data platform architecture and technologies that enable a diverse set of data users to work efficiently with data
You possess the ability to work cross-functionally with multiple stakeholders and/or train and consult other engineers and analysts on complex technical topics

ZALANDO BENEFITS

Zalando provides a range of benefits heres an overview of what you can expect. Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about what we offer.

Employee shares program
40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando 30% off Lounge by Zalando discounts from external partners
2 paid volunteering days a year
Hybrid working model with up to 60% remote per week actual practice is up to each team to best support their collaboration
Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year
27 days of vacation a year to start for full-time employees
Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement)
Family services including counseling and support
Health and wellbeing options (including Wellhub)
Mental health support and coaching available
Drive your development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review

Required Experience:

Senior IC

THE ROLE & THE TEAMThe Data Platform organization is providing Zalando with a reliable and secure environment for storing and processing data. We drive data engineering productivity and data security through interoperable services for data transformation storage serving exchange and orchestration as...