Staff Data Platform Engineer

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London, United Kingdom
Hybrid
Stream processing technologies (kafka & flink)
Large-scale event streaming platform
Build tooling (modules/sdks/dsls)
Our team's mission is to build a platform where you can create reliable, scalable, AI-powered streaming & batch data applications, and share data across checkout to improve business performance

Job Summary

  • Our team's mission is to build a platform where you can create reliable, scalable, AI-powered streaming & batch data applications, and share data across checkout to improve business performance.
  • We're building for scale. As such, much of what we design and implement today is the technology/infrastructure which will serve hundreds of teams and petabyte-level volumes of data.
  • We create the conditions for high performers to thrive – through real ownership, fewer blockers, and work that makes a difference from day one.

Matching Summary

Our team's mission is to build a platform where you can create reliable, scalable, AI-powered streaming & batch data applications, and share data across checkout to improve business performance.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Stream processing technologies (Kafka & Flink)
  • Large-scale event streaming platform
  • Build tooling (modules/SDKs/DSLs)
  • Cloud-based technologies (AWS)
  • Kubernetes experience
  • Infrastructure as code (Terraform)
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Java, Python, or C# programming

Nice-to-have

  • Proven track record of influencing engineering organizations
  • Ownership of event streaming platforms
  • Consultancy across technology organization
  • Hybrid working model

Key Requirements

  • Strong presentation and communication skills
  • Strong engineering background
  • Hands-on experience with Kafka
  • Experience designing and implementing Flink applications
  • Experience with AWS (MSK, S3, Lambda, ECS, SNS)
  • Experience with Kubernetes
  • Experience with SQL databases
  • Experience with Docker
  • Experience with infrastructure as code
  • Excellent programming skills (Java, Python, C#)

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