Job Description
THE ROLE & THE TEAM
As a Software Engineer in our Data Platform team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the foundation of Zalando's data platform. Your primary focus will be designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance data transformation infrastructure that is not only efficient but also reliable at scale. Through continuous innovation and challenging the status quo, you'll enable our organization to access valuable data-driven insights rapidly.
WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)
Zalando provides a range of benefits, here’s an overview of what you can expect. Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about what we offer.
As a Software Engineer in our Data Platform team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the foundation of Zalando's data platform. Your primary focus will be designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance data transformation infrastructure that is not only efficient but also reliable at scale. Through continuous innovation and challenging the status quo, you'll enable our organization to access valuable data-driven insights rapidly.
WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)
- Work within Zalando's central data infrastructure team, responsible for mission-critical services across the entire Zalando group
- Follow Data Mesh principles to grow a key component of Zalando's data strategy and drive innovation in data transformation systems at massive scale
- Collaborate with diverse teams of talented engineers, data scientists, and analysts to implement and maintain high-performance data-processing and data integration systems on top of lakehouse architecture
- Work with product managers, senior engineers, and peers in neighboring infrastructure teams to develop the system architecture and ensure seamless integration into Zalando's central data platform
- Ensure operational excellence and scale the platform based on Databricks to deliver impact in a rapidly growing environment
- You possess hands-on experience with cloud technologies (preferably AWS).
- You have an experience with container/orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker) and infrastructure as code framework (e.g CloudFormation or Terraform)
- You have solid programming skills in Python, Java, or other JVM languages, along with SQL knowledge
- You have an understanding of running data processing pipelines in production using distributed data processing frameworks like Apache Spark. Experience with Databricks is a plus.
Zalando provides a range of benefits, here’s an overview of what you can expect. Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about what we offer.
- Employee shares program
- 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Zalando Lounge, discounts from external partners
- 2 paid volunteering days a year
- Hybrid working model with 60% remote per week, actual practice is up to each team to best support their collaboration
- Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year
- 27 days of vacation a year
- Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement)
- Family services, including counseling and support
- Health and wellbeing options (including Gympass)
- Mental health support and coaching available