Staff Data Engineer

Marktplaats; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Attractive Base Salary

Annual bonus

Work From Anywhere

24/7 Employee Assistance Program

Collaborative work environment

Job summary

A leading classifieds company in Amsterdam is seeking a Data Engineer to develop features for their Data/ML Platform and ensure the platform's reliability and performance. The ideal candidate will have experience with cloud native applications, particularly in AWS, and strong skills in data engineering tools like Spark and Databricks. This role offers opportunities for impact in a collaborative environment and attractive benefits.

Qualifications

• Proven experience with cloud native applications.
• Experience supporting Data Engineers and Data Scientists.
• Hands-on experience with Spark, Python, and PySpark.
• Experience in AWS cloud data management.
• Ability to ensure data quality and governance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver high-quality features for the Data/ML Platform.
• Own the self-serve data platform's reliability and performance.
• Work with batch and streaming data pipelines and APIs.

Skills

Building cloud native data intensive applications

Data Engineering support

Building and maintaining Spark applications

AWS Cloud usage

Data quality assurance

Working with Airflow and Databricks

Containerization technologies

Understanding of Parquet and Delta Lake

Proficiency in SQL

Strong English communication skills

Tools

Databricks

AWS

Python

Kafka

Airflow

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Marktplaats in The Netherlands, and 2dehands and 2ememain in Belgium, are part of Adevinta: a global online classifieds specialist. The three brands are hosted on a multi-tenant platform, operated from our Amsterdam location, and are the top players in the classifieds space throughout the Benelux region.

We offer consumers the opportunity to trade their unwanted products and contribute to a greener, circular economy. We offer businesses - of all sizes, from the smallest hobbyist to the biggest brands in Benelux - a platform to showcase their goods and services online to over 11 million monthly unique users.

What You’ll Do & Who You Are

In the Marktplaats data and analytics teams, data is at the heart of everything we do. As a Data Engineer of the Data Platform team at Marktplaats you will be relied on to independently develop and deliver high-quality features for our new Data/ML Platform, refactor and translate our data products and finish various tasks to a high standard. You will be the cornerstone of the platform’s reliability, scalability and performance, working hands on with batch and streaming data pipelines, storage solutions and APIs that serve complex analytical and ML workloads.

The role encompasses ownership of the self-serve data platform, including data collection, lake management, orchestration, processing, and distribution.

Success in this role requires a high level of technical proficiency in modern data technologies and cloud-based environments, such as Databricks, AWS, Spark, Python, Kafka and Airflow and deep expertise in data management and governance frameworks.

What we are looking for

• Proven experience on building cloud native data intensive applications (both real time and batch based). AWS experience is preferred, GCP is good to have.
• Strong background in Data Engineering to support other Data Engineers, Back Enders and Data Scientists in building data products and services.
• Hands-on experience of building and maintaining Spark applications. Python and PySpark(Scala Spark is a plus)
• Experienced in AWS Cloud usage and data management (automation, data governance, cost optimisation, delivering reliable & scalable data solutions)
• Ensure data quality, schema governance and monitoring across pipelines.
• Experience with orchestrators such as Airflow, Kubeflow & Databricks workflows.
• Solid experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Fundamental understanding of various Parquet, Delta Lake and other OTFs file formats.
• Proficiency on an IaC tool such as Terraform, CDK or CloudFormation.
• Experience with Databricks (Lakehouse, ML/MosaicAI, Unity Catalog, MLflow, Mosaic AI, model serving etc).
• Data validation/analysis skills & proficiency in SQL is considered as a foundational skill.
• Collaborate in a small, fast moving team with high levels of autonomy and impact.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skill and proficient in communicating with non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

• An attractive Base Salary
• Participation in our Short-Term Incentive plan (annual bonus)
• Work From Anywhere: Enjoy up to 20 days a year of working from anywhere!
• A 24/7 Employee Assistance Program for you and your family, because we care
• Win together, lose together is one of our key behaviours. At Adevinta you will find a collaborative environment with an opportunity to explore your potential and grow

Adevinta is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

If you feel like you don’t meet all of the requirements for this role but are interested, please consider applying anyway. Research suggests that women and individuals from underrepresented groups may self-select out of opportunities if they don’t meet 100% of the job requirements. We strongly encourage people from historically excluded groups to apply and look forward to speaking with you.