Senior Data Platform Engineer
Ocado Group22 days ago
Kraków, PolandSenior
Responsibilities
- Build, operate, and improve data pipelines, backend services, and APIs supporting analytics and reporting for OSP and OMRS.
- Write and evolve Infrastructure as Code for cloud environments using Terraform or OpenTofu.
- Modernize the platform by addressing technical debt, tuning Airflow/Composer, optimizing DAGs, and configuring Kubernetes resource requests.
- Improve cloud and platform efficiency by identifying wasteful queries, idle resources, and opportunities to optimize BigQuery usage.
- Participate in monitoring, alerting, and incident response to maintain system health and customer trust.
- Maintain and enhance the reliability and performance of a live customer-facing slot-availability application.
- Collaborate with distributed engineering teams and stakeholders across Ocado Group.
Requirements
- Solid software engineering experience with Python.
- Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform or similar tools such as Ansible or CloudFormation on GCP or another major cloud provider.
- Strong understanding of DevOps practices, source control workflows, CI/CD, and deployment strategy design.
- Ability to work across application code, data pipelines, and infrastructure.
- Hands-on exposure to Python, TypeScript, Terraform, GCP, BigQuery, Airflow, CI/CD, and PostgreSQL.
- Fluent written and spoken English.
- Experience with TypeScript and Node.js is preferred.
- Advanced Airflow experience, including scheduler pool tuning, resource allocation, and diagnosing slow pipelines, is preferred.
- Exposure to dbt or other cloud data warehouse tooling is preferred.
- Experience supporting live production systems, Unix/Linux environments, and core security principles is preferred.
Benefits
- Life insurance, private health care through Luxmed, a Multisport card, lunch vouchers, company share programs, and assistance for everyday worries and serious health problems.
- Access to the Learnebly platform, LinkedIn Learning, English classes, and a book library.
- Additional 10 days of maternity leave and 20 days of paternity leave, plus nursery and kindergarten funding.
- Hybrid work with two days per week in the office and flexibility to work from almost any location for up to 30 days per year.
- Centrally located offices with car and bicycle parking and home office equipment provided.
- Career development opportunities to rotate between projects, teams, domains, and roles with guidance from senior colleagues.
- Public speaking training and support for conference, meetup, and Ocado Technology Meetups presentations.
- Running, cycling, and other passion groups, plus annual celebrations and family events.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache AirflowdbtGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesLinuxNode.jsPostgreSQLPythonTerraformTypeScript
Categories
Data Engineering
About Ocado Group
Ocado Group builds and licenses the Ocado Smart Platform, an end-to-end e-commerce, fulfillment, and robotics solution for grocery retailers, along with logistics and operations services. It also operates Ocado Retail in the UK via a 50:50 joint venture with Marks & Spencer. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Ocado is a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange.