Senior Data Platform Engineer

Globaldev Group; Poland; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation 20 days

Top-notch equipment

HR support

Professional accounting

Job summary

Globaldev Group seeks a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and evolve scalable data infrastructure supporting analytics, AI workloads, and product applications.

You will work on large-scale data pipelines, data lake evolution, and ingestion; collaborating with platform teams to ensure reliability, performance, and governance. Strong Python/SQL and Snowflake experience are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Data Platform/Infra Engineer.
• Experience with Data Lake architectures and scalable data infrastructure.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale data processing on Kubernetes with KEDA.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Hands-on with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• Experience with data orchestration platforms like Airflow or Prefect.
• Experience with Snowflake.

Responsibilities

• Build high-volume batch and near real-time ingestion services and evolve streaming capabilities.
• Design and implement data solutions in a distributed microservices environment.
• Develop and optimize large-scale data pipelines for batch and streaming use cases.
• Ensure data quality, compliance, and governance.
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes infra, using KEDA for dynamic scaling.
• Own the data stack lifecycle from provisioning to app-level frameworks with Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Provide technical guidance on infra best practices, CI/CD, testing, and system design.
• Analyze memory management and performance to ensure cost-efficiency and speed.

Skills

Python

SQL

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Airflow

Prefect

Snowflake

KEDA

Job description

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Data Platform Engineer to join our Data Platform team and play a key role in designing, building, and evolving the company's data infrastructure.

This is a hands-on engineering position focused on developing scalable data platforms, high-volume ingestion pipelines, and the foundational data systems that power analytics, product applications, AI workloads, and large-scale model execution. You will help architect our data lake, build reliable ingestion capabilities at scale, and shape the core infrastructure that supports the company's future growth.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and have a defining impact on the architecture and evolution of our data platform.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience as a Data Platform/Infra Engineer
• Proven track record of building and operating scalable data infrastructure specifically within Data Lake architectures
• Proven experience designing and operating large-scale data processing workloads on Kubernetes, including workload autoscaling with KEDA
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform
• Experience with managing a data orchestration platform such as Airflow or Prefect
• Experience with Snowflake

Responsibilities:

• Build complex, high-volume batch and near-real-time ingestion services while helping evolve the platform's streaming capabilities
• Design and implement data solutions for all application requirements in a distributed microservices environment
• Develop and optimize large-scale data pipelines for batch and streaming use cases
• Ensure data quality, compliance, and governance
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes infrastructure, utilizing KEDA to dynamically scale resources for large-scale data processing workloads
• Own the full lifecycle of our data stack using Terraform and Kubernetes, from provisioning to application-level frameworks
• Provide technical guidance for the team, drive best practices around infrastructure, CI/CD, testing, and system design
• Deep-dive into memory management and performance tuning to ensure our large-scale distributed systems are both cost-effective and lightning-fast

What we offer:

• Comfortable environment, challenging tasks and a long-term interesting project;
• Mobilization reservation available upon successful completion of the probation period (for Ukrainian colleagues)
• Covered 20 days of vacation;
• Working with top notch equipment;
• Bookkeeping by a professional accountant;
• Help and support from our caring HR-team;