Senior Data Engineer – Real-Time Data Pipelines & AWS

Flightradar24; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Impact on a service with millions of (

Flexible and social work environment

Modern office in Stockholm

Diversity and English as main language

Job summary

Flightradar24 is seeking a data engineering professional to design and optimize data ingestion, streaming, and transformation pipelines. You will work on cloud-based platforms (primarily AWS) and contribute to robust data collection, storage, and observability practices.

The role emphasizes building reliable data products, collaborating with engineers and analysts, and improving CI/CD, tests, and documentation within a fast-growing tech environment in Stockholm.

Qualifications

• Experience designing data ingestion, streaming, and transformation architectures.
• Hands-on experience building and operating production data systems.
• Familiarity with AWS cloud services and data platforms.

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 CI/CD, testing, code quality, and documentation best practices
• 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 (MySQL/MariaDB/Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB, data lake/warehouse patterns)
• Engineering practices: Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, linting, unit tests, integration tests

Skills

Data ingestion

Streaming architectures

Cloud platforms - AWS

Databases (SQL/NoSQL)

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Observability & reliability

Unit tests

Integration tests

Kafka

Data pipelines

Tools

AWS

Airflow/MWAA

S3

Glue/Spark

Athena

MSK/Kafka

Lambda

MySQL/MariaDB/Postgres

Redis

DynamoDB

Job description

Flightradar24 is seeking a data engineering professional to design and optimize data ingestion, streaming, and transformation pipelines. You will work on cloud-based platforms (primarily AWS) and contribute to robust data collection, storage, and observability practices.

The role emphasizes building reliable data products, collaborating with engineers and analysts, and improving CI/CD, tests, and documentation within a fast-growing tech environment in Stockholm.