6 days ago
Berlin, GermanyMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize large-scale ETL, batch, and stream-processing pipelines.
- Implement and maintain high-throughput and low-latency data stores for real-time recommendations.
- Develop data governance mechanisms that improve data quality and reliability.
- Build and improve ML infrastructure, including training, evaluation, and experimentation frameworks.
- Enable efficient model training and distribution for real-time recommender systems.
- Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, engineers, and analysts to create customer impact.
- Contribute to team objectives and continuously improve team self-organization.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience in data engineering projects.
- Strong experience applying software engineering principles to data management systems and building scalable data infrastructure with high-quality code.
- Understanding of distributed data processing and the ability to diagnose and optimize slow-running data pipelines.
- Experience with large-scale batch or stream processing using technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, Flink, Storm, Apache Beam, or Kafka.
- Proficiency in either Python or Java.
- Strong understanding of distributed databases, especially high-throughput and low-latency data stores such as DynamoDB, Cassandra, or Redis.
Benefits
- Employee shares program.
- Discounts including 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Zalando Lounge, and external partner discounts.
- Two paid volunteering days per year.
- 27 days of vacation per year to start.
- Relocation assistance subject to prior agreement.
- Family services, counseling, and support.
- Health and wellbeing options, including Gympass.
- Mental health support and coaching.
- Training platform access and biannual peer-to-peer reviews.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBApache BeamApache CassandraApache FlinkApache HadoopApache KafkaApache SparkApache StormJavaPythonRedisSQL
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.