Data Engineer - Platform Engineering

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Languages

Fluent English

Job Description

We're looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join the Data Experience Team within Platform Engineering. This role focuses on architecting and operating scalable, secure, and compliant infrastructure solutions that power core database and data storage capabilities.

🎯 Responsibilities

  1. Build and maintain platform solutions to enhance reliability, security, and scalability of database platform infrastructure.
  2. Apply best practices in cloud infrastructure, networking, and CI/CD to support operational data storage solutions.
  3. Collaborate with product and analytics teams to enable seamless orchestration, access, and metadata management.
  4. Participate in technical discussions, documentation, and knowledge sharing to foster continuous learning.
  5. Contribute high-quality code and infrastructure improvements aligned with the team’s roadmap.
  6. Participate in on-call rotations for incident response and troubleshooting to ensure platform stability.
  7. Maintain and enhance observability solutions (metrics, logging, tracing) to meet service level objectives and availability targets.

🛠️ Requirements

  1. Hands-on experience maintaining cloud-based infrastructure, especially AWS.
  2. Practical experience with container technologies (Docker) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes/EKS).
  3. Proficient with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar).
  4. Competence in at least one programming language (Python preferred).
  5. Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins).
  6. Skilled in modern data transformation tools, especially dbt (Data Build Tool).
  7. Expertise in workflow orchestration using Apache Airflow.
  8. Familiar with networking and security best practices in cloud environments.
  9. Experience with observability tools (DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

➕ Nice to have

  1. Knowledge of database internals, including performance tuning, high-availability architecture (replication/failover), and sharding/clustering.
  2. Experience as a Backend Engineer.
  3. Familiarity with metadata platforms (OpenMetadata).

🌟 Desired Traits

  1. Strong collaboration and communication skills for cross-team work.
  2. Proactive ownership mindset and focus on continuous improvement.
  3. Passion for building high-quality, scalable, and secure infrastructure.
  4. Eagerness to learn and a drive to contribute to platform product development.

🤗 We offer

  1. Opportunities to accelerate your career growth in a dynamic environment.
  2. Comprehensive employee benefits, including personal development and work-from-home budgets, discounts on fitness and wellness memberships, language apps, and public transportation.
  3. Hybrid work model with dedicated in-office team days and flexibility for remote work.
  4. Additional perks such as premium banking subscriptions for you and your family.
  5. Additional annual leave day for each year of service.
  6. High degree of autonomy and access to cutting-edge technologies.
  7. Relocation package with visa support available if required.
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N26

N26 is The Mobile Bank. N26 has redesigned banking to make it simple, fast and contemporary. Today N26 is one of the fastest growing banks in Europe and has more than 1 Million customers across 17 European markets and over 430 employees.

Benefits and perks

  • +Get Stuff Done Days
  • +Career development
  • +Personalized Onboarding

Location

Carrer de l'Escar, 26, 08039 Barcelona, Spain