Senior Data Platform Engineer - Remote & Flexible

FAIRTIQ AG; Schweiz; Remote; CHF 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dynamic and international work环境

Fully remote work

Budget for self-improvement

Leadership opportunities

Tech Joker Days

Flexible working hours

Job summary

FAIRTIQ AG is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to advance our data platform, enabling scalable ingestion, storage and access for millions of journeys. You will join the Platform team to drive automation, governance and self-service capabilities across squads.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in data platforms, strong Python, cloud experience (AWS preferred) and IaC expertise. The role offers a dynamic, international environment with remote-friendly arrangements and career growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor/Master in CS or related field.
• At least 5 years of professional experience as a Data Platform Engineer or Data Engineer.
• Strong Python skills and clean, well-tested code.
• Proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and data services on them.
• Experience with pipeline orchestration and data transformation frameworks.
• Experience with streaming and Kafka; understanding of ordering, delivery guarantees and schema evolution.
• Experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools.
• Awareness of GDPR and data protection in platform design.
• Proactive, organized and communicative; able to collaborate across disciplines.
• EU based or eligible to work in EU.

Responsibilities

• Drive data platform development - ingestion, storage, transformation and access - as a self-service product for the company.
• Support migration from legacy data infrastructure to the new platform and decommission old systems.
• Provide batch and streaming platform capabilities.
• Set up data quality, freshness, lineage, monitoring and alerting.
• Manage data infrastructure as code via CI/CD and GitOps pipelines.
• Build data governance: retention, access control, pseudonymisation and audit trails per GDPR and contracts.
• Optimise performance, cost efficiency and resiliency.
• Grow data platform capability across Platform squad via docs, pairing and Dojo sessions.
• Collaborate with backend, mobile and analytics teams to fit product needs.

Skills

Python

AWS

Data platform

Terraform

Kafka

CI/CD

Data governance

Education

BSc or MSc in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Kafka

Kubernetes

Iceberg/Open table formats

Job description

FAIRTIQ AG is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to advance our data platform, enabling scalable ingestion, storage and access for millions of journeys. You will join the Platform team to drive automation, governance and self-service capabilities across squads.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in data platforms, strong Python, cloud experience (AWS preferred) and IaC expertise. The role offers a dynamic, international environment with remote-friendly arrangements and career growth opportunities.