Data Platform Engineer

Sumup; Berlin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SumUp is building a self-service, AI-ready Data Platform within the Platform tribe. You will help scale infrastructure for data, AI, and real-time analytics, enabling a global data community.

You will build and maintain best-in-class data infrastructure, develop self-service features for ETL and orchestration, and optimise compute usage while reducing costs. The role emphasizes automation and scalable services.

Qualifications

• Experience with infrastructure as code and containerisation (Terraform, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in at least one main language: Python or Go.
• Experience with modern data query engines (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Trino).
• Experience with data orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster).
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder balancing abilities.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data infrastructure for critical processes.
• Develop self-service features, including ETL and orchestration.
• Optimise compute usage and reduce costs.
• Automate operations for high availability.
• Contribute to design and implementation of new services.

Skills

Python

Go

infrastructure as code

containerisation

team-first mindset

self-motivated

stakeholder management

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Docker

Kubernetes

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Trino

Airflow

Dagster

dbt

Kafka

Flink

StarRocks

Pinot

Druid

ClickHouse

Job description

As part of the Platform tribe, you will help build a self-service, AI-Ready Data Platform. The Data Platform team supports our next big bets: Data, AI, and real-time analytics. We are a team focused on building scalable, reliable infrastructure to enable our global data community.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain best-in-class data infrastructure for critical processes.
• Develop features that strengthen self-service, including for ETL and orchestration.
• Optimise processes to use compute more efficiently and reduce cost.
• Automate operations so the platform stays highly available.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of new services.

You'll be a strong fit if you

• Have experience with infrastructure as code and containerisation (e.g. Terraform, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Have used modern query engines (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Trino).
• Have worked with modern data orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow, Dagster).
• Are proficient in at least one of our main languages: Python or Go.
• Bring a pragmatic, team-first mindset.
• Are self-motivated, work well independently, and can balance stakeholder needs.

Nice to have

• Experience building and operating performant API layers.
• Experience with dbt for transform, test, and documentation workflows.
• Query optimization at scale.
• Real-time streaming (e.g. Kafka, Flink, StarRocks, Pinot, Druid, ClickHouse).
• Experience with systems at petabyte scale.
• Experience implementing AI-enabled systems (e.g. agentic SRE, AI automation).

About SumUp

We believe in the everyday hero. Small business owners are at the heart of all we do, so we're creating tools that help them run their businesses. With a founder's mentality and a 'team-first' attitude, our diverse teams across Europe, South America, and the United States work together to ensure that the small business owners we partner with can be successful doing what they love. SumUp is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. SumUp does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, colour, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other basis protected by applicable laws or prohibited by company policy. SumUp also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind. SumUp will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate.

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