Senior Data Platform Engineer

Smartly

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In this role, you will develop platform services and tools for data-driven publishing, implement PostgreSQL tables, Kafka topics, and automate workflows to efficiently manage data products and integrate with the team.

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Your role in the team

  • Design and build platform services, tools, and workflows for contract-driven data publishing and consumption.
  • Build the first production path for platform-managed PostgreSQL publishing tables, Debezium CDC, Kafka topics, and catalog registration.
  • Create GitOps-style workflows where contracts, schemas, ownership, lifecycle, compatibility, policy metadata, and runtime desired state are reviewed, validated, and reconciled as code.
  • Build tooling that gives product engineers fast feedback before they publish or change data products.
  • Helfen Sie bei der Definition, wie Smartly Datenprodukte, Publishing-Verträge, Schema-Entwicklung, Feldstabilität, Lösch-Mechanismen, Zugriffspolitik, Herkunft und Kostenverfolgung modelliert.
  • Operate and improve the CDC runtime model, including Kubernetes workloads, source-specific isolation, offsets, schema history, heartbeats, signal channels, lag visibility, replay, resnapshotting, and recovery.
  • Integrate platform metadata into DataHub so engineers can discover data products, understand ownership, trace lineage, and reason about the impact of changes.
  • Work with product, infrastructure, data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML teams to make the standard path easier and safer than bespoke point-to-point integrations.

Our expectations of you

Qualifications

  • Deep understanding of distributed systems trade-offs: reliability, idempotency, replay, eventual consistency, ownership boundaries, compatibility, and operational failure modes.
  • Vertrautheit mit Kubernetes und Cloud- oder Infrastrukturplattformen, einschließlich Laufzeitisolierung, Deployment, Observability und operativer Verantwortung.
  • Ability to turn ambiguous architectural direction into practical increments, make trade-offs explicit, and deliver useful production systems without waiting for perfect certainty.
  • Klare schriftliche und mündliche Kommunikation in Englisch. Diese Rolle umfasst die Abstimmung mehrerer Engineering-Teams hinsichtlich Standards, Verträge und Verantwortungsbereiche.

Experience

  • Strong experience building and operating production software systems, preferably in platform, infrastructure, backend, or data-intensive environments.
  • Practical experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases, including schema design, migrations, transactions, replication, or operational performance.
  • Experience with Kafka, event streaming, CDC, Debezium, or adjacent data-movement technologies. Direct Debezium experience is valuable, but strong fundamentals matter more.
  • Experience building software that other engineers use: CLIs, internal platforms, control planes, automation, CI validation, developer tooling, or self-service workflows.

What we offer

  • At Smartly, we offer a place where you can do meaningful technical work while growing with a global team.
  • Inclusive global culture built on trust, transparency, open feedback, and respect for different perspectives.
  • Global impact through technology used by major brands to plan, create, optimize, and understand digital advertising at scale.
  • Wellbeing support, paid holidays, family leave, and sustainable ways of working.
  • Equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and career development opportunities.
  • A flexible hybrid workplace that balances office collaboration with focused remote work. At Smartly we work 3 days a week from the office.

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About your employer

Powering beautifully effective ads. Smartly.io automates every step of social advertising to unlock greater performance and creativity.

Company type
Established Company
Work model
Onsite, Hybrid
Industry
Advertising, Marketing, PR · Internet, IT, Telecommunication
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Senior Data Platform Engineer

Smartly