Senior Data Engineer

Xebia is a global AI-first, digital transformation, and engineering partner with over 25 years of experience and a team of 5,000 professionals across 16 countries. In the CEE region, they have nearly 1,000 experts delivering modern applications, data platforms, and AI solutions for clients such as McLaren, Aviva, Deloitte, Spotify, Disney, ING, UPS, Tesco, Truecaller, and others. Technologies used include AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks, and Snowflake.

• 3+ years of experience in data engineering
• Hands-on experience building, scaling, and operating production-grade data platforms or data infrastructure, including reliability, observability, performance, and self-service capabilities
• Experience working with an orchestration tool (e.g., Airflow)
• Experience working with Kubernetes
• Experience working with large data sets
• Experience building complex ETL pipelines
• Experience working with GCP
• Strong programming skills in Spark with Scala and Python
• Experience working with CI/CD tools like Jenkins and Git
• Strong understanding of software engineering practices and principles

Nice to have:

• Kafka or another messaging system
• Streaming platforms
• BigQuery or Redshift data-warehouse administration

• Maintaining an ingestion pipeline processing billions of events daily against a defined SLA
• Supporting teams that build and optimize complex data pipelines
• Identifying platform problems with other engineering teams
• Developing tools and frameworks for the data platform
• Supporting data scientists and analysts with production workloads
• Contributing to ML-platform and streaming initiatives
• Establishing software-engineering and data-development practices

Work from the European Union region and a work permit are required.