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Senior Data Platform Engineer

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  • Level
    Senior
  • Job Field
    Data, Back End
  • Employment Type
    Full Time
  • Contract Type
    Permanent employment
  • Location
    Berlin
  • Working Model
    Onsite
  • Job Summary

    In this role, you will develop a scalable data platform, optimize ETL processes, automate operations, and implement new services while using modern query engines and data orchestration tools.

    Job Technologies

    Your role in the team

    • As part of the Platform tribe, you will help build a self-service, AI-Ready Data Platform.
    • The Data Platform team supports our next big bets: Data, AI, and real-time analytics.
    • We are a team focused on building scalable, reliable infrastructure to enable our global data community.
    • Build and maintain best-in-class data infrastructure for critical processes.
    • Develop features that strengthen self-service, including for ETL and orchestration.
    • Optimize processes to use compute more efficiently and reduce cost.
    • Automate operations so the platform stays highly available.
    • Contribute to the design and implementation of new services.

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    Our expectations of you

    Qualifications

    • Have used modern query engines (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Trino).
    • Have worked with modern data orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow, Dagster).
    • Are proficient in at least one of our main languages: Python or Go.
    • Bring a pragmatic, team-first mindset.
    • Are self-motivated, work well independently, and can balance stakeholder needs.
    • Query optimization at scale.
    • Real-time streaming (e.g., Kafka, Flink, StarRocks, Pinot, Druid, ClickHouse).

    Experience

    • Have experience with infrastructure as code and containerisation (e.g. Terraform, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes).
    • Experience building and operating performant API layers.
    • Experience with dbt for transform, test, and documentation workflows.
    • Experience with systems at petabyte scale.
    • Experience implementing AI-enabled systems (e.g., agentic SRE, AI automation).

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    What we offer

    • SumUp is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce.
    • SumUp does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, colour, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other basis protected by applicable laws or prohibited by company policy.
    • SumUp also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.

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    Job Locations

    • Location Berlin

      Germany

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    Description

  • Language
    English
  • Company Type
    Established Company
  • Working Model
    Onsite
  • Industry
    Internet, IT, Telecommunication
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    Senior Data Platform Engineer

    Location
    Berlin
    Working Model
    Onsite
    Diversity
    Open for all genders
    English Only
    English only required

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