Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland Hybrid Employment

Smartly is hiring a Staff Engineer, Data Platform

About the Role

This position is responsible for leading the development and evolution of the company's core data platform, ensuring it supports growing data demands with high reliability, performance, and security. The role involves deep technical work, collaboration across teams, and strategic planning to enable data-driven decision-making at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable data platform systems
  • Ensure data reliability and consistency across pipelines
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data needs
  • Optimize data storage and retrieval performance
  • Maintain data security and compliance standards
  • Lead technical design discussions and architecture reviews
  • Mentor engineers and promote best practices
  • Drive automation of data workflows and monitoring
  • Evaluate and integrate new data technologies
  • Troubleshoot complex data infrastructure issues
  • Improve observability and alerting for data systems
  • Support disaster recovery and data resilience planning
  • Contribute to capacity planning and scalability efforts
  • Document system designs and operational procedures
  • Ensure platform meets SLAs and uptime requirements
  • Work closely with data scientists and analysts
  • Integrate data from multiple sources efficiently
  • Enforce data governance policies
  • Build self-service tools for data access
  • Promote data quality and lineage tracking
  • Participate in incident response and on-call rotation
  • Advance platform reliability and operational excellence
  • Align data platform roadmap with business goals
  • Evaluate cost-efficiency of data infrastructure
  • Support migration to modern data stack components

Nice to Have

  • Master's degree in computer science or related field
  • Experience with multi-cloud data environments
  • Contributions to open-source data projects
  • Leadership in platform engineering teams
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
  • Deep understanding of data lineage tools
  • Prior work in ad tech or similar domains
  • Public speaking or conference presentations
  • Experience with data mesh architectures
  • Knowledge of machine learning pipelines

Compensation

Competitive salary and benefits package

Work Arrangement

Hybrid work model with flexibility for remote and office-based work

Team

Part of a high-performing engineering team focused on data infrastructure and platform scalability

About the Team

The Data Platform team builds foundational systems that power analytics, machine learning, and operational workflows. We focus on scalability, automation, and developer experience to enable fast, safe data access across the organization.

Tech Stack

We use cloud-native data platforms, containerized services, and modern orchestration tools. Our stack includes managed data warehouses, streaming pipelines, and infrastructure as code for reliable deployments.

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Smartly

Smartly helps the world’s most ambitious brands launch faster, scale smarter, and deliver ads that don’t just show up—they show results. Not a media platform. Not a creative studio. Smartly is where creative and media finally stop pretending they don’t know each other.

Since 2013, Smartly has been building a better way to advertise—where insights, automation, and creativity work together from the start. The company believes in aligning strategy, creative, and media before campaigns launch, reinventing how advertising is done.

Smartly’s AI-powered platform enables teams to build smarter cross-channel ads in one-third the time. It synchronizes creative and media workflows, turning fragmented processes into fully aligned performance systems that drive better results.

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