Senior Data Platform Engineer

Too Good To Go; København; Hybrid; DKK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work in Copenhagen

Impactful social mission

International team

Job summary

Too Good To Go in Copenhagen HQ is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to help build, scale, and architect our data infrastructure powering our global mission to fight food waste. You will join the Platform team and work with Backend, ML, Analytics, and Marketing to design reliable, scalable data systems, ingestions, and pipelines that support BI dashboards and decision making.

This senior role emphasizes architectural vision, mentoring, and collaboration with product managers to deliver

Qualifications

• Deep proficiency in Python and SQL with strong data engineering fundamentals.
• Solid understanding of modern data warehouse internals and AWS Redshift.
• Experience building scalable data pipelines using Airflow, dbt, Metaflow, and AppFlow.
• Hands-on with distributed systems in production (Spark on EMR, Glue).
• Experience with DataOps, Terraform, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Docker), and observability tools.
• Proven ability to lead technical work and mentor others in architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and maintain scalable data processing solutions and reusable infra.
• Own the shared data platform and data storage components (Redshift, OpenSearch, RDS, S3).
• Build self-service tooling and standards for pipelines across teams.
• Optimize performance, cost governance, and reliability of the AWS data ecosystem.
• Collaborate with product managers and ML/Analytics teams to translate use cases into robust requirements.
• Automate observability, data integrity tests, and governance across central and external data workflows.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data warehouse

Redshift

Airflow

dbt

Metaflow

AppFlow

dlt

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Kinesis

Flink

Spark

Observability

MLOps

Tools

AWS Redshift

Airflow

AppFlow

Metaflow

dbt

dlt

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Docker

S3

Glue

EMR

Kinesis

Firehose

Job description

About Too Good To Go

At Too Good To Go, we have an ambitious goal: to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste together. 40% of all food produced in the world is wasted, contributing to 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. We’re more than an app, we are a social impact company working across 20 countries to drive change through our marketplace app, educational tools, legislative work, and logistics initiatives.

Our community of 118 million registered users and 246,000 active partners, have together already prevented 443+ million meals from going to waste - avoiding over 1.198.000 tonnes of CO2e!

The Role

Too Good To Go is looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to help build, scale, and architect our data infrastructure, enabling our global mission to reduce food waste.

You would be part of the Platform team based in Copenhagen HQ. Data Platform enables multiple teams including Backend, ML, Analytics, and Marketing by helping them manage data infrastructure powering batch pipelines, live inference, and streaming initiatives across the company. In this role, you will operate as a technical anchor at the intersection of platform infrastructure and data engineering, scaling the ecosystem to meet the needs of the teams building on it. You will be responsible for designing, improving, and implementing reliable, robust data systems and the ingestion flows that feed both our backend app and our BI tools, supporting growth and better decisions across the company.

This is a senior role for someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure problems, driving architectural vision, and mentoring others. You will work closely with analytics engineers, ML engineers, and product managers to build practical solutions for problems that don't have a standard answer, and to scale the platform that serves many teams.

Tech Stack

Our data stack includes AWS (Redshift, Lambda, Kinesis, Firehose, S3, Glue, EMR, AppFlow), Airflow, Flink, dlt, dbt, and Metaflow, built and managed with Python and Terraform following GitOps principles. We also provide access to modern AI tools to boost engineering productivity.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and maintain scalable data processing solutions with a focus on reusable infra systems, building services that enable external teams to power personalization, product discovery, lead generation, dynamic pricing, and BI dashboards.

• Own the shared infrastructure that other teams build on, including ML workflows (Metaflow), the data processing platform (Glue, AppFlow, Airflow, Lambda), and data storage (Redshift, OpenSearch, RDS, S3).

• Build self-service tooling and infrastructure standards so teams can deploy and operate their own pipelines independently.

• Optimize system performance, efficiency, and infrastructure cost governance across our AWS data ecosystem.

• Partner closely with Product Managers and Tech Leads within ML, Finance, Marketing, and Analytics domains to translate operational use cases into clear, robust technical requirements to improve our product.

• Automate observability metrics, monitoring, and data integrity tests to ensure reliable, trusted data sources and strong data governance across central warehouse and external team product workflows.

• Drive data engineering best practices, conduct technical design reviews, and mentor engineers across the broader data team.

What We're Looking For

• Data Engineering: Deep proficiency in Python and SQL, advanced understanding of modern data warehouse internals (AWS Redshift), efficient ways of working on S3, and strong data engineering fundamentals including scalability, reliability, fault tolerance, and trade-off analysis.

• Production pipelines: Extensive experience designing, building, and operating data processing solutions (Airflow, AppFlow, Metaflow, dbt, dlt), and working with distributed systems in production (Spark on EMR, Glue).

• DataOps: Strong software engineering and systems engineering skills, with a proven record of managing platform-level systems end-to-end. Experience applying DataOps, GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Docker), and observability tools. Familiarity with MLOps principles, cloud-native infrastructure, and container orchestration.

• Technical Leadership: Proven ability to take some technical ownership of complex projects in autonomy, drive architectural decisions, and mentor team members in technical best practices.

• Nice to have: Streaming experience (Kinesis, Firehose, Flink), Kubernetes and Helm experience.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work at a scaling social impact company and directly reduce food waste globally.

• Work-life balance focus (no mandatory overtime or standard on-call duty).

• Hybrid work setup in our Copenhagen HQ (4 days in office).

• To be part of an international company, with over 1,300+ colleagues across 19 countries that are on the same important mission.

• An informal environment, working alongside 180+ passionate people within Tech & Product

• We celebrate our differences and our successes and have a strong values-driven team culture.

Our values

We win together: Food waste is a big beast to fight. We believe in a #oneteam.

We raise the bar: We always push for more. We work smart, smash barriers and elevate one another.

We keep it simple: Our ambitions are bold but our solutions are simple.

We build a legacy: We’re proud of the change we’re driving.

We care: We always look out for each other. Caring is also about the way we do business. We do the right thing.