Data Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 65.000 - 85.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

United States Digital Space LLC in Berlin is seeking a hands-on Data Engineer to own the data lake platform, ingest high-volume network and customer data, and model it for reliable reporting and self-serve analytics across the business.

You will develop data models, build ETL/ELT pipelines from source systems into our data lake on AWS, and ensure data quality, provenance, and well-documented processes. Collaboration and ongoing improvement are key.

Qualifikationen

• 3-5 years hands-on data engineering experience.
• Strong SQL— comfortable with window functions, CTEs, query optimization.
• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines on AWS S3, Glue, and Athena (or comparable stack).
• Practical understanding of data modeling: raw → conformed layers, dimensional modeling basics.
• Experience consuming from Kafka as a data source.
• Advanced proficiency in Python for ETL development and automation.
• Strong communications skills.

Aufgaben

• Develop and implement data models ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and reliability.
• Create and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines ingesting data from source systems into our S3-based data lake.
• Consume from and build reliable logic around Kafka topics and handle late/duplicate/out-of-order events.
• Own data transformations with tests and documentation for trust in the numbers.
• Orchestrate and monitor pipelines in Airflow, including retries, backfills, and SLAs.
• Write efficient SQL for transformation logic and ad-hoc investigation.
• Contribute to data quality checks and flag anomalies before reporting.
• Collaborate with team members to ensure smooth development and shared understanding.
• Take ownership of end-to-end data flows and maintain documentation.
• Actively contribute to team discussions and openness to new ideas or technologies.

Kenntnisse

SQL

Python

ETL/ELT pipelines

AWS (S3/Glue/Athena)

Kafka

Airflow

dbt

Data modeling

Data quality

Communication skills

Tools

Spark/Hive/EMR

BigQuery

Redshift

Snowflake

Jobbeschreibung

About Us

the company is a technology-driven global mobile communications provider, delivering global connectivity solutions to enterprises and consumers. Powered by a best-in-class telecom platform with its own owned and operated global mobile core network in 15 countries, fully fledged in-house developed eSIM technology, and an extensive portfolio of telecom licenses; the company operates as a fully regulated telecommunications provider across 43 countries worldwide.

The company serves many of the world’s leading banks, multinational enterprises, global retailers and digital-first businesses, including neo-banks, global fast moving consumer goods companies, travel leaders, and payment service providers. Today, the company connects more than 80 million people and devices globally, enabling our customers to launch, scale, and innovate with confidence in the mobile ecosystem.

the company is a profitable, fast-growing business. With full-year revenues in 2025 exceeding US$200 million and profits of over US$25 million, we generate strong cash flows to fund our growth allowing us to continuously invest in infrastructure, platform innovation, and global expansion. In 2026 also the parent of the Lidl Group acquired a 10% interest in the company as part of a deal for Lidl to offer globally to its 180 million consumers communication services. Recent years have marked a defining phase in the company’s journey, with major enterprise and mass-consumer client wins accelerating its evolution into a global mobile connectivity powerhouse, purpose-built to enable consumer brands to enter and succeed with their own aspirations to offer telecommunications services to their clients.

Founded in 2022 by experienced technology entrepreneurs, Hakan Koç and Pyrros Koussios, the company has rapidly emerged as a European technology leader shaping the future of global telecommunications. It operates as a fully regulated Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) in 15 countries and as a regulated telecom operator in an additional 28 markets. Headquartered in the Netherlands, with world-class R&D hubs in Lisbon, Berlin, and São Paulo, its team of close to 550 experts across 16 countries is united by a single ambition: to redefine global mobile connectivity through technology, scale, and execution excellence.

About the Team

The Data Engineering team sits within the Central Data function, reporting to the Head of Data. We own the full data value chain: ingestion from source systems (billing, CRM, network, product, support, compliance), the data lake and warehouse layers, dataqualityand freshness. Wedon'town what the numbers mean — that's thebusiness'scall — but we own making sure the numbers are correct,timely, and traceable back to source.

You'lljoin Data Engineering as a hands-on engineer working on our core lake platform — ingesting high-volume network and customer data, modeling it into clean, reliable datasets, and making it available for reporting and self-service analytics across the business.

About the Role

• Develop and implement data models, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and reliability across raw and curated layers
• Create and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines that ingest data from source systems (billing, CRM, network, product, support) into our S3-based data lake
• Consume from and build reliable logic around Kafka topics, handling late, duplicate, or out-of-order events as they arrive
• Own data transformations indbt, with tests and documentation so trust in the numbers is built in, not bolted on
• Orchestrate and monitor pipelines in Airflow, including retries, alerting, backfills, and SLAs
• Write efficient, well-structured SQL for transformation logic and ad-hoc investigation
• Contribute to data quality checks — completeness, freshness, reconciliation against source — and flag anomalies before they reach reporting
• Collaborate with team members to ensure smooth development processes and shared understanding.
• Take ownership of the quality and outcomes of your work, ensuring fully functional end-to-end flows.
• Create andmaintainaccurate, up-to-date technical documentation.
• Actively contribute to team discussions, with a mindset for continuous improvement and openness tonew ideasor technologies.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of hands-on data engineering experience
• Strong SQL— comfortable with window functions, CTEs, query optimization
• Solid experience building and maintaining datapipelines on AWS S3, Glue, and Athena (or a closely comparable lake/warehouse stack — e.g. Spark + Hive/EMR,BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake,Exasol— if you know the S3/Glue/Athena equivalents well)
• Practical understanding of datamodelling: raw → conformed layers, dimensionalmodellingbasics, thinking about how a table willactually bequeried
• Experience consuming from Kafka(or another streaming/message system) as a data source
• AdvancedproficiencyinPythonfor ETL development, datamanipulationand system automation
• Strong communicationskills

Nice to Have

• Airflow— DAG design, retries, backfills
• dbt—modelling, testing, documentation
• Exposure toApache Icebergor other open table formats
• Experience intelecomor another high-volume, regulated data environment (finance, healthcare)

Why the company?

• Growth Opportunities: Advance your career in one of the fastest growing telecommunications companies, expanding over 50% year-on-year under the leadership of successful tech entrepreneurs.
• Major Transaction Exposure: Be in the driver’s seat for transactions that will have an impact on the future telco industry.
• Work with a Talented Team: From the Board and the Founders to the Senior Management Team, you will collaborate daily with the most capable and renowned external advisors and constantly being exposed to talented and driven individuals.
• Dynamic Work Environment: Thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced workplace where innovation is encouraged, and every contribution counts.
• Professional Development: Work alongside industry experts to enhance your skills and knowledge in a cutting-edge field.
• International Experience: Gain opportunities to work in different the company offices around the world as you grow within the company.
• Open Communication Culture: Join a team where your ideas are heard, and open dialogue is encouraged, fostering a supportive and transparent work environment.
• Get Things Done Attitude: Be part of a results-driven team that values efficiency, creativity, and the drive to make a tangible impact in the industry.

the company is an equal opportunity employer, we value your character as much as your talent. Diversity drives our innovation, and we offer a collaborative, dynamic, and international work environment. We are excited for you to join our mission to revolutionise connectivity globally.