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Senior Data Platform Engineer
Flix SE · Berlin, BE, Deutschland
Berlin, BE, DeutschlandHybrid
Remuneration
competitive pay
Location
Berlin, BE, Deutschland
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Flix is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to join their Core Data Platform team. This role involves improving and maintaining a scalable data platform infrastructure, collaborating with various teams, and contributing to architectural decisions. The ideal candidate will have strong data architecture experience and extensive experience with scalable data platforms in complex environments.
Benefits
Competitive payStrong growth opportunities12 free Flix vouchers12 discount vouchers for friends & familyWork from another location for up to 60 days per yearHybrid work modelConfidential 1:1 counsellingCourses and stress management supportLanguage classesTraining coursesExpert-led sessionsMentoring Program
Qualifications
- Strong data architecture experience
- Proven track record of solving complex data challenges in large or multi-team organizations
- Desire to help colleagues
- Focus on delivering the right solution
- Comfort with frequent context switching
- Strong Kafka knowledge from architecture and developer's perspective
- Ability to provide hands-on support for application developers
- Extensive experience with scalable data platforms in complex environments
- Ownership of platform-critical applications
- End-to-end infrastructure ownership (CI/CD, observability & monitoring)
- Ability to create meaningful, actionable monitors
- Solid Terraform knowledge to navigate, maintain, and contribute to infrastructure-as-code codebase
- On-call experience and clear mindset regarding critical issues
- Solid experience with a Cloud Provider (preferably AWS)
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
- Fluent in English with strong technical communication skills
- Experience with Snowflake or comparable cloud data warehouse solutions (e.g., Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift) (nice-to-have)
- Network/Security knowledge (e.g., SSO, SAML, VPCs, network policies, EntraID) (nice-to-have)
- Previous experience working in a central or shared data platform team (nice-to-have)
- Exposure to or interest in AI/ML workloads on data platforms (nice-to-have)
Responsibilities
- Improve and maintain scalable data platform infrastructure on AWS, K8s, Confluent Cloud, and Snowflake
- Ensure high availability and reliability for all data consumers
- Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and product teams to improve platform usability and self-service capabilities
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
- Ensure cloud environments are reproducible, auditable, and well-documented
- Operate and improve the data platform by optimizing workloads for performance, cost-efficiency, and resilience
- Build and refine CI/CD pipelines (GitLab) for fast, safe, and automated deployments
- Evaluate and introduce new technologies and best practices
- Contribute to architectural decisions and technical documentation
- Share knowledge within the team and across the organization
- Implement and maintain comprehensive observability and monitoring (Datadog)
- Create actionable alerts and dashboards to proactively detect and resolve issues
- Participate in the team's on-call duty schedule
Skills
AWSBigQueryDatabricksDatadogGitLabKafkaKubernetesRedshiftSnowflakeTerraform
Languages
English
Relocation
No