Senior Data Platform Engineer

Overview

Senior Data Platform Engineer for Smartly’s Data Platform team, focused on building a governed, reusable data publishing path for product services, analytics, and AI/ML.

What you'll do

• Design and build platform services, tools, and workflows for contract-driven data publishing and consumption.
• Build the production path for PostgreSQL publishing tables, Debezium CDC, Kafka topics, and catalog registration.
• Create GitOps-style workflows to review, validate, and reconcile data contracts and desired runtime state as code.
• Develop tooling to give product engineers fast feedback before publishing or changing data products.
• Operate and improve the CDC runtime model, including Kubernetes workloads and CDC recovery behaviors.
• Integrate platform metadata into DataHub for discovery, ownership, lineage tracing, and impact analysis.

What you'll need

• Strong experience building and operating production software systems in platform/infrastructure/backend/data-intensive environments.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems trade-offs like reliability, idempotency, replay, and eventual consistency.
• Practical experience with PostgreSQL (schema design, migrations, transactions, replication, or operational performance).
• Experience with Kafka and event streaming, including CDC and Debezium or adjacent data-movement technologies.
• Experience building software that other engineers use (e.g., internal platforms, control planes, automation, developer tooling).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud/infrastructure platforms, including observability and operational ownership.
• Clear written and spoken communication in English.

Details

• Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland.
• Work style: flexible hybrid workplace with 3 days per week from the office.