Senior Data Platform Engineer (Central Data Lake) (all genders)

Location: Berlin

Contract: Full time

Job Category: Software Engineering - Data

THE ROLE & THE TEAM

The Data Platform organization is providing Zalando with a reliable and secure environment for storing and processing data. We drive data engineering productivity and data security through interoperable services for data transformation, storage, serving, exchange, and orchestration, as well as data access management, metadata management, and data discovery. Within the Data Platform organization, the Data Repository team is responsible for managing the petabyte scale Data Lake and Mesh of Zalando, providing pipelines and tooling to ensure security and compliance.

WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)

• Work within Zalando’s Central Data Lake team providing mission-critical data services for the whole Zalando group
• Design, build and maintain data pipelines that materialize event streams to Zalando’s Central Data Lake
• Design, build and maintain services that ensure the security, compliance and reliability of Zalando’s Data Platforms and Systems
• Support our strategy and come up with innovative ideas to build world-class data transformation systems one step ahead of the industry
• Consult and help our diverse teams across the Zalando group to develop, implement and maintain sustainable, high-performance, and scalable data-processing and data integration systems

WE’D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF

• You have more than 5 years of experience in designing and developing data processing and data platform services
• You have experience in operating data processing and data platform services in production
• You have experience with Apache Spark or other distributed data processing frameworks (e.g. Flink, Beam)
• You possess a track record in using and promoting software development best practices such as source control, continuous integration and continuous deployment, test-driven development and elastic cloud architectures (AWS, Google Cloud or Azure)
• You are proficient in at least one of the languages: Python, Scala, Java and you are comfortable working with SQL
• You have a strong understanding of distributed data platform architecture and technologies that enable a diverse set of data users to work efficiently with data
• You possess the ability to work cross-functionally, with multiple stakeholders, and/or train and consult other engineers and analysts on complex technical topics

ZALANDO BENEFITS

Career Development

• We offer peer-to-peer performance reviews twice a year
• Learn and develop through our extensive Zalando training platform
• Join regular all-hands, team meetings, Q&A-sessions, and quarterly anonymous employee surveys to ask your questions and provide your feedback
• Support from an international team of experts; mentoring and professional development opportunities

Wellbeing

• 2 days paid leave per year for volunteering
• Minimum of 27 holiday days per calendar year
• Online sports courses, wellbeing, and nutrition advice offered by Humanoo personal wellbeing coach app
• Mental wellbeing support by our Employee Assistance Program and professional consultants to help you find health resources

Flexibility

• Flexible working hours
• 30 days/year of Work-From-Abroad at own discretion
• Balanced work-from-home / work-from-office policy targeting the Zalando-wide 2 office-days per week guidance.
• Relocation assistance for internationals
• If you work from an office in your role, a choice of office equipment to be delivered to you, to support you working from home due to COVID-19 safety

Financial

• Access to the employee shares program
• 40% shopping discount on products shipped and sold by Zalando, and 30% discount on Zalando Lounge
• Discounts from a wide range of external partners

Family

• Employee parents’ forums and employee resource group
• Supported transition into and out of parental leave, with a buddy and re-onboarding plan
• 3 fully-paid child sick days per year
• Free counseling, assistance, and referral service for all matters concerning yourself and your family via the Fürstenberg Institute

Recruiter: Taruna Poonan

Email: taruna.poonan@zalando.de

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