Data Engineer
SumUp
Seniority
Midweight
Model
In-Office
Sector
Salary
Undisclosed
Contract
Full-Time
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.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain best-in-class data infrastructure for critical processes.
- Develop features that strengthen self-service, including for ETL and orchestration.
- Optimise 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.
What you'll need
- Experience with infrastructure as code and containerisation (e.g. Terraform, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes).
- Used modern query engines (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Trino).
- Worked with modern data orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow, Dagster).
- Proficient in at least one of: Python or Go.
- Pragmatic, team-first mindset.
- Self-motivated, work well independently, and can balance stakeholder needs.
Nice to have
- Experience building and operating performant API layers.
- Experience with dbt for transform, test, and documentation workflows.
- Query optimization at scale.
- Real-time streaming (e.g. Kafka, Flink, StarRocks, Pinot, Druid, ClickHouse).
- Experience with systems at petabyte scale.
- Experience implementing AI-enabled systems (e.g. agentic SRE, AI automation).

