Senior Data Engineer

Flightradar24; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free beverages

Fruit & snacks

Modern office in central Stockholm

Diversity with +30 nationalities

Job summary

Flightradar24, a Stockholm-based tech company, seeks a data engineering professional to design and improve data ingestion, streaming, and event processing across batch and real-time pipelines. You will operate and enhance cloud platforms on AWS, improve observability and production tooling, and collaborate with engineers, analysts, and data teams to deliver reliable data products.

This role requires hands-on experience with distributed data architectures and strong emphasis on code quality,

Qualifications

• Experience with data engineering architectures for ingestion and transformation.
• Several years of hands-on experience building and operating production systems.
• Experience with cloud-based platforms, preferably AWS.
• Solid understanding of databases (warehouses, OLTP/OLAP concepts, query performance).
• Experience with event-driven or streaming architectures (Kafka).
• Strong understanding of reliability, observability, and production operations.

Responsibilities

• Designing and improving data ingestion, streaming, and event processing (batch and real-time).
• Refactoring and enhancing existing services, pipelines, and infrastructure.
• Implementing robust data collection, transformation, and storage solutions.
• Operating and improving cloud-based platforms (primarily AWS).
• Improving observability, reliability, and operational tooling for production systems.
• Contributing to best practices around CI/CD, testing, code quality, and documentation.
• Collaborating with software engineers, data engineers, and analysts to deliver reliable data products.

Skills

Data ingestion

Streaming

AWS

Databases

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

Kafka

S3

Glue

Airflow

Lambda

PostgreSQL

Redis

DynamoDB

Job description

Flightradar24 is one of the most successful growth-stage tech companies in Stockholm. Each month more than 50 million aviation enthusiasts visit Flightradar24 (app/website) and our Commercial services team has many of the biggest names in aviation on its customer list.

The position requires that you are able to work from our office in Stockholm, Sweden. Relocation is not offered for this role.

What you’ll do

Your responsibilities include

• Designing and improving data ingestion, streaming, and event processing (batch and real-time)
• Refactoring and enhancing existing services, pipelines, and infrastructure
• Implementing robust data collection, transformation, and storage solutions
• Operating and improving cloud-based platforms (primarily AWS)
• Improving observability, reliability, and operational tooling for production systems
• Contributing to best practices around CI/CD, testing, code quality, and documentation
• Collaborating with software engineers, data engineers, and analysts to deliver reliable data products
• Cloud & Data Platform: AWS (S3, Glue/Spark, Airflow/MWAA, Athena, MSK/Kafka, Lambda)
• Databases & Storage: SQL/NoSQL systems (e.g., MySQL/MariaDB/Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB, data lake/warehouse patterns)
• Engineering practices: Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, linting, unit tests, integration tests

About you

• Experience with data engineering architectures for ingestion and transformation
• Several years of hands‑on experience building and operating production systems
• Experience working with cloud-based platforms, preferably AWS
• Solid understanding of databases (warehouses, OLTP/OLAP concepts, query performance)
• Experience with event‑driven or streaming architectures (Kafka or similar)
• Strong understanding of reliability, observability, and production operations

We also see that you...

• Are self‑driven and comfortable making technical decisions independently
• Can quickly understand and work within an existing codebase and architecture
• Value clean code, testing, automation, and pragmatic engineering practices
• Communicate clearly and professionally in English

About Flightradar24

With over 4 million daily users, Flightradar24 is the world’s most popular flight tracking service. Our app regularly tops the App Store and Google Play Travel charts. We also offer a wide range of commercial services and our customers include many of the biggest names in aviation.

We're constantly adding new services and improving existing products. To help us meet those challenges, we're looking for creative, collaborative and tech‑savvy applicants to join us.

Benefits of working at Flightradar24 include:

• Opportunity to impact a service with millions of end users from all around the world
• Flexible and social work environment with free beverages, fruit, and snacks
• Modern office in the heart of beautiful downtown Stockholm, Sweden
• Being part of a diverse team with +30 nationalities and 6 continents represented with English being our main language