Software Engineer – Data Platform
Continental3 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, maintain, and operate secure, scalable, observable, and fault-tolerant data ingestion pipelines.
- Build Python- or Scala-based extraction services and reusable metadata-driven platform components, APIs, and data interfaces.
- Implement CDC, delta, event-based, HTTP, and Kerberos-authenticated data transfer patterns.
- Integrate source systems including SAP, Salesforce, SharePoint, APIs, file-based endpoints, and legacy manufacturing platforms.
- Establish and troubleshoot SAP extraction using Theobald Extract Universal.
- Develop backend services and metadata integrations for a web-accessible data catalog using Unity Catalog.
- Implement dataset discoverability, preview, exploration, lineage, and structured access-request workflows.
- Define and operate data quality validation, monitoring, severity classification, flagging, filtering, and quarantining processes.
- Own production interfaces end to end, including logging, alerting, failure handling, documentation, auditability, and compliance.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity, infrastructure, architecture, IT, business users, source-system owners, and global stakeholders.
- Serve as the technical escalation point for complex source integrations and translate requirements into scalable technical patterns.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field.
- 5–8 years of software development experience with inbound and outbound data exchange interfaces and endpoint management.
- Hands-on experience with Scala or Java, Python, advanced SQL, and Git-based collaborative development.
- Experience building robust ingestion pipelines and ETL jobs in a software engineering context.
- Experience with Azure or another hyperscaler’s resource management.
- Experience with data lakes, data warehousing, Databricks, and Azure is preferred or advantageous.
- Strong backend or software engineering experience, including Java, Scala, or distributed systems, is encouraged.
- Ability to collaborate across geographies, time zones, enterprise stakeholders, and business domains.
- Notebook-only data processing, dashboarding or analytics-focused experience, and SQL-only backgrounds without software engineering experience are not a fit.
Benefits
- Training opportunities.
- Mobile and flexible working models.
- Sabbaticals.
- Full-time position with a Leading Self leadership level.
About Continental
Continental develops and manufactures tires, automotive electronics, software, and systems for vehicle safety, automated driving, and connectivity, serving global automakers and industrial customers. Its ContiTech division supplies rubber and plastic-based solutions such as belts, hoses, and materials for non-automotive applications. Founded in 1871 and headquartered in Hannover, Germany, Continental AG is a public company listed in Frankfurt and operates worldwide across OEM and aftermarket channels.