Senior Data Engineer

Summary

Join ResearchGate's Data Platform Engineering team in Berlin as a full-time, hybrid employee. You will contribute to maintaining, shaping, and enhancing the data infrastructure, ensuring data flows smoothly for data-informed decisions. This role impacts millions of scientists globally. The team collaborates closely, balancing pragmatic solutions with innovative experiments. You'll work with big data technologies like Hadoop, Flink, and Kafka, and contribute to cloud migration. Your expertise will drive the evolution of the data platform, collaborating with various teams. ResearchGate offers a flexible work environment, generous vacation time, professional development opportunities, and support for mental wellbeing.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Data Platform Engineer or Data Engineer
• Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform or a different cloud provider
• Proficient knowledge in Python
• Understanding of DevOps: running applications in Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code using terraform, cloud security principles
• Experience with big data technologies (Hadoop and Flink)

Responsibilities

• Engineer efficient, adaptable and scalable data architectures to make building and maintaining big data applications easy and enjoyable for others
• Work with key big data technologies including Hadoop, Flink, and Kafka and help to migrate them into Cloud
• Data ingestion (work with third-party tooling like Debezium and Kafka Connect plugins)
• Take ownership for continuous maintenance and improvement of components of our data platform
• Act as a technical leader to drive the evolution of our data platform in collaboration with backend engineering, data science and analytics teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Java
• Operating at petabyte scale

Benefits

• Flexible working environment that adapts to your life circumstances
• A generous 30 full days of vacation
• Days focused for your professional development to further grow your career
• Free access to a platform to support your mental wellbeing
• We support a remote work approach by enabling our team to work across borders (up to 120 days a year) by partnering with WorkFlex