Senior Data Platform Engineer - Build Streaming Platform

Doghouse Recruitment; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 99,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Significant performance bonus

Job summary

Doghouse Recruitment is representing a growing high‑frequency trading firm hiring its first Data Platform Engineer in Amsterdam. You will design a shared data platform built on event streaming, change-data-capture, and data contracts, owning the end‑to‑end data ingestion across teams.

You will coach engineers through the change, partner with the Head of Data on business alignment, and drive adoption of standards with a pragmatic, latency‑aware mindset.

Qualifications

• You bring a coach's mindset, listening and navigating disagreement without steamrolling.
• Production experience with event-streaming platforms (Kafka/Redpanda) as the technical core.
• Solid grounding in streaming, ETL and data warehousing patterns; comfortable with CDC tooling (Debezium).
• Pragmatic approach to latency in environments with millisecond or faster performance.

Responsibilities

• Build a shared data platform from scratch, taking ownership and guiding the team through the change.
• Define architecture for event streaming, CDC, and data contracts across engineering teams.
• Mentor and align engineers on standards, while Head of Data handles business aspects.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure scalable, low-latency data ingestion.

Skills

Coaching mindset

Event streaming platforms (Kafka/Redpa

Data streaming/ETL/data warehousing

Change-data-capture tooling Debezium

Low-latency data environments

Education

Tools

Terraform

ArgoCD

Kubernetes

Debezium

Job description

Doghouse Recruitment is representing a growing high‑frequency trading firm hiring its first Data Platform Engineer in Amsterdam. You will design a shared data platform built on event streaming, change-data-capture, and data contracts, owning the end‑to‑end data ingestion across teams.

You will coach engineers through the change, partner with the Head of Data on business alignment, and drive adoption of standards with a pragmatic, latency‑aware mindset.