Senior Data Platform Engineer – Cloud Pipelines

Ocado; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health care

Multisport card

Lunch vouchers

Company share programs

Parental support

Hybrid model

Car parking and home office equipment

Job summary

Ocado Group is seeking a Data Engineer to join the Data Engineering Platform, building and operating core data pipelines and services powering analytics for OCADO Smart Platform and OMRS. You’ll work across code, data pipelines, and infrastructure to modernise the platform and improve reliability.

In this role you’ll monitor, alert, and respond to incidents while contributing to a live, customer-facing slot-availability app. Collaboration with distributed teams across Ocado Group is essential.

Qualifications

• Solid software engineering experience in Python.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, or similar like Ansible/CloudFormation) on GCP or another major cloud provider.
• Strong grasp of core DevOps practices, including source control workflows, CI/CD, and deployment strategy design.
• Comfort working across the stack, moving between application code, pipelines, and infrastructure.
• Fluent written and spoken English with hands-on exposure to Python, TypeScript, Terraform, GCP, BigQuery, Airflow, CI/CD, and PostgreSQL.

Responsibilities

• Build, run, and improve data pipelines, backend services, and APIs powering analytics and reporting for OSP and OMRS.
• Write and evolve Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/OpenTofu) for cloud environments.
• Modernise the platform by untangling technical debt and tuning Airflow/Composer (right-sizing pools, setting K8s resource requests, and optimising DAGs).
• Improve platform efficiency and cloud infrastructure costs by identifying wasteful queries, idle resources, and optimising BigQuery usage.
• Participate in monitoring, alerting, and incident response to maintain system health and customer trust.
• Maintain and enhance the reliability and performance of a live, customer-facing slot-availability application.
• Collaborate closely with distributed engineering teams and key stakeholders across Ocado Group.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

BigQuery

English

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

GCP

Airflow

Job description

Ocado Group is seeking a Data Engineer to join the Data Engineering Platform, building and operating core data pipelines and services powering analytics for OCADO Smart Platform and OMRS. You’ll work across code, data pipelines, and infrastructure to modernise the platform and improve reliability.

In this role you’ll monitor, alert, and respond to incidents while contributing to a live, customer-facing slot-availability app. Collaboration with distributed teams across Ocado Group is essential.