Founding Data Platform Engineer

Kargo; France; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Kargo seeks a founding Data Platform Engineer to shape and build the data control plane and enable scalable data products across the company. You will work directly with the Sr.

Director of Data Engineering to define standards, provide reliable pipelines, and ensure data is discoverable and observable. As the founding engineer, you will craft modular tooling, publish data, and guide platform direction while collaborating with multiple teams to accelerate AI-powered insights across campaigns and

Qualifications

• Loosely coupled production services, APIs and SDKs in Python.
• Metadata-driven platforms that integrate with catalogs and check lineage, contracts and quality automatically.
• Observability signals that other teams rely on, with clear signal-to-noise distinction.

Responsibilities

• Build the data control plane to see and govern data products, schemas, lineage and ownership.
• Create a paved road for standing up a data product with libraries, SDKs, templates and CI/CD.
• Develop the enforcement layer for data standards, including schema registry and contract validation.

Skills

Python

APIs

SDKs

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Data catalogs

Job description

Kargo seeks a founding Data Platform Engineer to shape and build the data control plane and enable scalable data products across the company. You will work directly with the Sr.

Director of Data Engineering to define standards, provide reliable pipelines, and ensure data is discoverable and observable. As the founding engineer, you will craft modular tooling, publish data, and guide platform direction while collaborating with multiple teams to accelerate AI-powered insights across campaigns and