Senior Data Engineer - Real-Time Data & AWS Platform

Flightradar24; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 800,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free beverages, fruit and snacks

Modern Stockholm office

Diverse team with +30 nationalities

Job summary

Flightradar24, a Stockholm-based tech company, seeks a data engineer to design and operate data ingestion, streaming, and cloud pipelines. You will work with AWS, Kafka, and multiple databases to deliver reliable data products for a global user base.

You will collaborate with software and data teams, improve CI/CD practices, and help scale production systems in a fast-growing environment at our Stockholm office.

Qualifications

• 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

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
• 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

Skills

Data engineering

AWS

Kafka

CI/CD

Observability

Databases (SQL/NoSQL)

Production systems

English communication

Tools

Airflow/MWAA

Spark

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Redis

DynamoDB

Lambda

Job description

Flightradar24, a Stockholm-based tech company, seeks a data engineer to design and operate data ingestion, streaming, and cloud pipelines. You will work with AWS, Kafka, and multiple databases to deliver reliable data products for a global user base.

You will collaborate with software and data teams, improve CI/CD practices, and help scale production systems in a fast-growing environment at our Stockholm office.