3 days ago
Berlin, GermanySenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain data pipelines that materialize event streams into Zalando’s Central Data Lake.
- Design, build, and maintain services that support the security, compliance, and reliability of Zalando’s data platforms and systems.
- Operate data-processing and data-platform services in production.
- Develop innovative data transformation systems and contribute to the team’s platform strategy.
- Consult with teams across Zalando on sustainable, high-performance, scalable data-processing and data-integration systems.
- Train and advise engineers and analysts on complex technical topics.
- Optimize cloud resources and data pipelines for cost efficiency.
Requirements
- More than 5 years of experience designing and developing data-processing and data-platform services.
- Experience operating data-processing and data-platform services in production.
- Experience with Apache Spark or another distributed data-processing framework such as Flink or Beam.
- Experience using and promoting software development best practices, including source control, continuous integration, continuous deployment, test-driven development, and elastic cloud architectures.
- Proficiency in at least one of Go, Python, Scala, or Java, plus comfort working with SQL.
- Strong understanding of distributed data-platform architecture and technologies supporting diverse data users.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with multiple stakeholders and consult or train engineers and analysts on complex technical topics.
- Experience optimizing cloud resources and data pipelines for cost efficiency.
Benefits
- 27 days of annual holiday for full-time employees initially, increasing by one day per calendar year up to 30 days.
- 40% discount on fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% discount on Lounge by Zalando, and external partner discounts.
- Family support, including counseling and dedicated services for parents and carers.
- Company pension scheme and employee shares programme.
- Health and wellbeing options, including Wellhub, plus mental health support and coaching.
- Training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review for development.
- Two paid volunteering days per year.
- Relocation assistance subject to prior agreement.
Categories
Data Engineering
About Zalando
Zalando operates a European online fashion and lifestyle platform where consumers shop apparel, footwear, accessories, and beauty, and brands sell via its marketplace. The public company, founded in 2008 and headquartered in Berlin, runs its own logistics network and serves over 50 million active customers across 25 markets. Its business spans direct e-commerce, partner services, and payments and risk systems that support the platform’s operations.