Data Engineer

Summary

Join roadsurfer as a Senior Data Engineer focused on Data Quality Assurance, Data Governance & Compliance. You will implement data quality practices, define data governance policies, and ensure compliance with data privacy regulations. You’ll help automate testing, monitor data quality, and enforce best practices for handling customer data. The role involves owning and evolving the approach to data reliability, leading the implementation of robust data governance policies, driving automation of data validation, defining and tracking key data quality metrics, ensuring compliance with global data privacy regulations, partnering with cross-functional teams, building and maintaining automated processes, and supporting analytics and product teams. Roadsurfer offers a collegial atmosphere, flexible work hours, personal development support, a camper budget, and various discounts. The company is growing rapidly, and this is an opportunity to join a dynamic team.

Requirements

• Several years of professional experience in data engineering or a related field, with a strong understanding of data governance, privacy, and quality management
• Hands-on experience with Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) and Customer Engagement Platforms (CEPs) such as Segment or Braze
• Strong understanding of data transformation workflows and orchestration tools (e.g., dbt, Apache Airflow, Prefect)
• Proven ability to design and maintain scalable data validation and monitoring systems
• Deep knowledge of data privacy regulations and experience implementing compliance measures (consent tracking, anonymization, auditing)
• Familiarity with concepts like data lineage, ownership, naming conventions, and documentation
• Strong communication and collaboration skills: able to align stakeholders across functions and guide best practices
• Fluent in English

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve our approach to data reliability with automated testing, versioned data models, and end-to-end lineage tracking
• Lead the implementation of robust data governance policies to ensure consistency, quality, and integrity across our CDP and CEP platforms (e.g., Segment, Braze)
• Drive automation of data validation and quality checks, including schema validation and integrity monitoring
• Define and track key data quality metrics, and proactively identify areas for improvement in data health and structure
• Ensure compliance with global data privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA), including ownership of consent tracking and data anonymization workflows
• Partner with cross-functional teams to standardize data definitions, naming conventions, and ownership practices
• Build and maintain automated processes for data cleanup and transformation, ensuring downstream data is analytics-ready
• Support the analytics and product teams by structuring and optimizing data for reliable reporting and experimentation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience maintaining compliance documentation and performing data audits
• Background in analytics infrastructure and supporting data for experimentation or personalization use cases

Benefits

• TEAM SPIRIT & TEAM EVENTS: Look forward to a collegial atmosphere with flat hierarchies, lots of fun and great team spirit, as well as regular team events such as joint sports sessions, pizza & beer evenings, etc
• FLEX WORK & WORKATION: You are flexible in terms of working hours. Our Flex Work Policy enables you to switch between office days and home office days and work from abroad in Europe for one month per year
• PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT: We support your personal and professional development through an individual Growth Plan and our Inhouse Academy
• CAMPER BUDGET: You get an annual camper budget to experience the #happyroadsurfing lifestyle for yourself
• DISCOUNTS: Use our Corporate Benefits Platform, the Travel Industry Card and Family & Friends Discounts