Senior Software Engineer II (Data & AI Platform)
StepStone Group4 days ago
Warsaw, PolandSenior
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the Data Platform’s technical vision, roadmap, and architecture across data, platform, and infrastructure domains.
- Establish engineering standards, best practices, and reusable patterns in partnership with Enterprise Architecture.
- Guide teams through complex technical challenges and support planning, delivery, decision-making, and risk management.
- Improve code quality, testing, observability, reliability, and operational practices.
- Mentor engineers, grow senior technical capabilities, and champion AI-assisted development and engineering automation.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer, Senior Data Engineer, or equivalent senior individual contributor.
- Strong background in data platforms, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures, including shaping technical direction across teams and stakeholders.
- Expertise with technologies such as AWS, Terraform, Kafka/MSK, Airflow, Glue, or Spark.
- Experience with data lakes or lakehouse architectures, Iceberg or similar table formats, and batch and streaming processing.
- Knowledge of data quality, governance, cataloguing, and observability tools such as Datadog.
- DBT or AI-assisted engineering practices are a plus.
Benefits
- Premium medical and dental care.
- Life insurance.
- Flex Benefits through the Worksmile Cafeteria System, including Multisport, vouchers, and tickets.
- Employee referral program, hackathons, knowledge-sharing hours, and in-house projects.
- Technical and sports communities, events, and integration parties.
- Charity initiatives and two extra volunteer days.
- English and German classes.
- Game room and chillout zone.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About StepStone Group
The Stepstone Group operates online job platforms and programmatic recruitment services that match employers with candidates. It sells job advertising, CV database access, and hiring solutions to businesses across a portfolio of brands including Stepstone, Totaljobs, and Appcast. Headquartered in Düsseldorf, it serves markets in 30+ countries through local sites and technology used by both enterprises and SMBs.