Lead Data Platform Engineer

1 hour, 51 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
PR Newswire

PR Newswire

PR Newswire provides comprehensive news distribution, targeting, monitoring, and marketing solutions that enable communicators to effectively connect and engage with their target audiences on a global scale.

Internet Software & Services
1K-5K
Founded 1954
$83M raised

Description

  • Own the end-to-end data platform roadmap and drive execution from architecture decisions through day-to-day operations.
  • Take accountability for data ingress, streaming processing, batch aggregation, data modeling, delivery, and reporting logic.
  • Ensure reliability, scalability, and performance through monitoring, observability, and incident management.
  • Improve the GCP-native platform with a focus on stability, cost efficiency, maintainability, and business continuity.
  • Collaborate with Product, Customer Success, and Leadership to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
  • Drive AI-native engineering adoption through AI-assisted coding, refactoring, testing, documentation, and code reviews.
  • Establish engineering standards for documentation, testing, code reviews, and safe use of AI tooling.
  • Work with external specialists when needed and build sustainable internal ownership of critical platform components.
  • Audit the existing cloud and data platform architecture to identify risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities.
  • Strengthen data quality controls, validation processes, monitoring, and alerting for business-critical workflows and delivery pipelines.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Platform Engineering, or Platform Engineering in production environments.
  • Solid Go (Golang) proficiency is required.
  • Strong hands-on experience with GCP Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Storage, and Cloud SQL.
  • Strong SQL and analytical data modeling skills.
  • Familiarity with SQLMesh or similar dbt-style orchestration tools is a significant plus.
  • Practical experience with Terraform/IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized workloads.
  • Experience with Protobuf or comparable schema definition and serialization frameworks.
  • Familiarity with IVW, OEWA, or comparable digital audience measurement standards, or a genuine interest in the web analytics domain and ability to ramp quickly.
  • Experience with AI coding assistants and coding agents such as Claude Code or Codex, with sound judgment in reviewing AI-generated code for quality, security, and operational risk.
  • Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Fluent German (C1) is required, and good English is needed for technical documentation and collaboration.

Benefits

  • 100% remote work with flexibility to work from wherever and whenever you like.
  • High autonomy and freedom to solve problems in your own way.
  • A low-bureaucracy environment with fewer meetings and less red tape.
  • A small, friendly team that supports one another.
  • Access to a network of entrepreneurial SaaS professionals for sharing ideas, learning, and expertise.
  • Fair and transparent pay with location-adjusted salary ranges shared in writing before the first interview.
  • An inclusive, equal opportunity workplace committed to diversity.

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