Senior Data Engineer — Real-Time Data Pipelines & AWS

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, 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,