Data Engineer, Operations Team

Kognia Sports Intelligence; Barcelona; Híbrido; EUR 40.000 - 60.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A sports tech startup in Barcelona is looking for Python Engineers to design and maintain data pipelines and internal tools. You will work alongside skilled software engineers and data scientists within a collaborative environment focused on innovative solutions in football analytics. The role offers a competitive salary between €40,000 - €60,000 annually, with flexible working conditions favoring candidates in Spain, while also considering international applications.

Formación

• Fluent in Python or similar high-level programming languages.
• Experience working with GCP production architectures.
• Excellent communication skills in English.

Responsabilidades

• Design and support scalable data pipelines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align data needs.
• Improve and design cloud architectures as necessary.

Conocimientos

Python

Data pipeline design and support

DevOps technologies

SaaS production architectures

Team collaboration

Herramientas

Kubernetes

GCP

AWS

React

Apache Kafka

Descripción del empleo

Come join a creative team dedicated to improving football performance by combining cutting-edge technology with top football minds!

Kognia Sports Intelligence is seeking Python Engineers to help us build and maintain reliable data pipelines integrations and internal tools foster a DataOps mindset at Kognia and work closely with our product and research teams. You will have an opportunity to make a huge impact while collaborating with talented software engineers data scientists football coaches and more. The salary range is EUR 40.000 - 60.000 annual plus bonus commensurate with experience. We are open to a variety of experience levels minimum 1 year in a similar position or 3 years in other engineering roles with relevant responsibilities.

Kognia Sports Intelligence

We are a Barcelona-based startup funded by football industry leaders including superstars Xavi Hernández and Iker Casillas. Since opening our office in early 2019 with the founders plus 2 engineers we have grown to 20. Our system incorporates data from multiple sources applying our particular combination of AI and football insight to deliver unique data sets and a product that is both data- and video-driven.

The Operations team is responsible for processing games to generate content and insights. As an engineer on this team you will help build and maintain internal tools integrations with data providers monitoring and alerting systems and general you will help automate processes in order to allow us to advance in our journey of scaling from a handful of competitions to dozens.

Key technologies are Python Postgres Kafka Kubernetes with almost all the day-to-day work in Python also React BigQuery and dbt could come up depending on the project (of course we dont expect knowledge of all of these).

We also regularly move individual contributors between teams both on loan and on a more permanent basis depending on how priorities resources and individual interests evolve over time.

This position is currently mixed remote / office at the discretion of each individual and each team. Some engineering teams come to the office roughly weekly (those who can) although Operations is not currently doing so. Nevertheless we do prefer candidates in the Barcelona area or Spain more generally for administrative reasons but will consider international applications as well not more than 4 time zones away.

Responsibilities

• Design build and support modern and scalable data pipelines using data processing frameworks technologies and platforms.
• Use best practices around CI / CD automation testing and monitoring of analytics pipelines.
• Collaborate with software engineers researchers data scientists and stakeholders to understand what data is required and how best to make it available in our platform.
• Improve our cloud architecture and design new architectures as the need arises.
• Identify and address possibilities for improvement in areas such as speed of delivery and infrastructure cost reduction.
• Investigate new technologies and approaches as needed.
• Willingness to take part in an on‑call rotation with your team members.

Required

• Fluent with one or more high‑level programming languages (Python preferred but also Ruby Java Scala Go or similar). Willing to work mostly in Python but possibility for other stacks as the team may decide on a service‑by‑service basis.
• Experience working with SaaS production architectures in GCP (preferred) or AWS.
• Ability to adapt to a fast‑paced changing agile environment.
• Interest (if not experience) in DevOps technologies such as Kubernetes.
• Excellent team player with strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Comfortable working in English - were an international team based in Barcelona with English as our shared language.

Preferred

• Experience providing data and infrastructure for building and deploying ML models to production.
• Experience working in multi‑functional teams with end‑to‑end responsibility for product development and delivery within your mission.
• Front‑end experience in React.
• Interested in being the glue between engineering and research.
• Experience in data quality and governance.
• Specific knowledge of GitLab CI / CD.
• Knowledge of containerization GitOps and Linux. Kubernetes experience especially is a big plus.
• Familiarity with Apache Kafka.

We welcome your application through this listing or feel free to contact our CTO directly for any questions :

Key Skills: Apache Hive,S3,Hadoop,Redshift,Spark,AWS,Apache Pig,NoSQL,Big Data,Data Warehouse,Kafka,Scala

Employment Type: Employee

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1

Yearly Salary Salary : 40000 - 60000