Senior Data Platform Engineer — Self-Service Data Platform

Smartly.io; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development programs

Bonus programs and equity options

Generous healthcare packages

Job summary

Smartly.io is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to shape a data platform used across product services, analytics, and AI/ML. You will design platform services and workflows for contract-driven data publishing, ensuring reliable, scalable data foundations for engineers.

You’ll work with PostgreSQL, Debezium, Kafka, and DataHub, building the first production data publishing path and advancing the platform toward self-service data products and governance at scale.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing and operating data platform components.
• Ability to translate architecture into concrete production systems.
• Experience with data contracts, schema registries, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Design and build platform services, tools, and workflows for contract-driven data publishing and consumption.
• Build production paths for PostgreSQL publishing tables, Debezium CDC, Kafka topics, and catalog registration.
• Create GitOps-style workflows for contracts, schemas, ownership, lifecycle, and policy metadata.

Skills

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Problem solving

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Debezium

DataHub

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Python

Go

Job description

Smartly.io is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to shape a data platform used across product services, analytics, and AI/ML. You will design platform services and workflows for contract-driven data publishing, ensuring reliable, scalable data foundations for engineers.

You’ll work with PostgreSQL, Debezium, Kafka, and DataHub, building the first production data publishing path and advancing the platform toward self-service data products and governance at scale.