Always Friday is hiring a Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team. You will design and build the foundational data flow, enabling internal customers to find, access, and investigate data. You will forge new ways to ingest, process, store, and deliver data at scale and complexity.
What You'll Do
- Architect, develop, and manage the data platform to support efficient data ingestion, transformation, quality assurance, monitoring, and accessibility
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to understand data needs
- Contribute to formulating and executing on the technical vision and roadmap for the data platform
What We're Looking For
- Proven experience (2+ years) in a data engineering role, preferably within a fast-paced tech company or similar environment
- Strong understanding of data concepts at scale ranging from data ingestion, transformation and modeling
- Strong understanding of software engineering best practices and their application to data pipelines
- Experience with data governance, especially around implementing and managing data catalogs, IAM, ensuring metadata management and efficient data discovery
- Experience with Python, SQL, and HCL (Terraform)
- Extensive experience working with a public cloud provider, ideally Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and a solid understanding of its data services
- Experience with BI tools and how to integrate these with a modern data setup
- Strong customer-centric mindset with a deep understanding of the importance of product thinking when enabling software delivery teams to build data-driven solutions
- Very good knowledge of spoken and written English
Nice to Have
- German language skills are a plus
- Prior experience with IoT applications and streaming data processing (e.g. GCP Dataflow, Apache Beam, Apache Flink, etc.)
- Having worked in a scale up environment at a company of similar size
- Interest in the climate tech industry
Technical Stack
- Google Cloud Platform (CloudRun, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataform, etc.)
- SQLMesh
- Terraform / Terramate
- GitHub Actions
- Python
- SQL
- Looker
Team & Environment
You will be part of the data platform team within the Product & Tech team.
Benefits & Compensation
- Part of an international, dynamic, and highly motivated team
- Direct impact on accelerating the energy transition and climate
- Work with and learn from other super-smart colleagues
- Direct contact with core decision-makers
- Best chances of entering full-time in one of Europe’s most thriving scaleups
- Work remotely (Germany-wide), with offices in Hamburg, Berlin, or Munich
- EGYM Wellpass membership
- Job bike leasing (city bike or e-bike)
Work Mode
This is a hybrid role. You can work from our offices in Berlin, Munich, or Hamburg, or remotely within Germany.
Always Friday is an equal opportunity employer.
