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Principal Platform Engineer (m/f/d)
shopware · Schöppingen, NW, Deutschland
Schöppingen, NW, DeutschlandRemote
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
Schöppingen, NW, Deutschland
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Principal Platform Engineer owns the architecture, operation, and reliability of a Data Platform supporting organization-wide data pipelines, analytics, and governance. The role covers CDC ingestion into S3, a three-tier Iceberg lakehouse, Terraform-managed AWS orchestration, OpenMetadata and Superset hosting, and operational practices such as observability, SLOs, and incident response. The engineer also implements infrastructure controls for retention, access, classification, and deletion requests in partnership with Data & AI and platform teams.
Benefits
Mobile work and full-remote contract optionsChoice of work hardwareStructured onboarding with a personal buddyPersonal and professional development opportunitiesCompany pension planHealth programsTeam events
Qualifications
- Deep hands-on AWS experience with Glue, Athena, Step Functions, EventBridge, Lake Formation, and S3.
- Strong Terraform experience authoring and evolving shared modules.
- Working knowledge of CDC pipelines and Iceberg-based lakehouse tiers.
- Familiarity with Kafka-based event streaming, MSK, and Glue Schema Registry.
- Experience operating a platform used by other teams, including incident response and SLO practices.
- Ability to assess bespoke requests and route them through an appropriate backlog.
- Strong cross-team communication and ability to present technical positions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to proactively communicate trade-offs and risks to leadership.
- Understanding of data-driven organizational practices and shared data access.
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and reliability of the Data Platform.
- Operate CDC ingestion into raw S3 and maintain raw schemas and contracts.
- Manage Terraform-provisioned orchestration across raw, curated, and aggregated lake tiers.
- Host and operate OpenMetadata and Superset.
- Define code boundaries, contract gates, and incident routing between platform infrastructure and pipeline logic.
- Establish observability, operational practices, SLOs, and incident response for the platform.
- Implement retention windows, access controls, classification metadata, and deletion-request propagation.
- Coordinate platform standards and self-service practices with Data & AI and infrastructure teams.
Skills
AthenaAWSDatadogdbtEventBridgeKafkaAWS LambdaAmazon MSKS3SparkTerraformWindowsAWS Glue
Work schedule
Flexible working hours
Industry
E-commerceDigital commerce
Contract length
Permanent
Relocation
No