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Lead Data Platform Engineer

2 months, 3 weeks ago
Europe
Full-time
Lead
Data Engineer
Software Development
CI/CD dbt Docker GCP Go Serverless SQL Terraform
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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
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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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