Senior Data Platform Engineer

About the role

Globaldev Group is looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to join its Data Platform team in Athens. The role is hands-on engineering, focused on designing, building and evolving the company's data infrastructure: scalable data platforms, high-volume ingestion pipelines and the foundational systems that power analytics, product applications, AI workloads and large-scale model execution. The engineer will help architect the data lake and build reliable, large-scale ingestion.

Key responsibilities

• Build complex, high-volume batch and near-real-time ingestion services and help evolve the platform's streaming capabilities.
• Design and implement data solutions for all application requirements in a distributed microservices environment.
• Develop and optimize large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines.
• Ensure data quality, compliance and governance.
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes infrastructure, using KEDA to scale resources dynamically for large data workloads.
• Own the full lifecycle of the data stack, from provisioning to application-level frameworks, using Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Provide technical guidance to the team and drive best practices around infrastructure, CI/CD, testing and system design.
• Deep-dive into memory management and performance tuning so large-scale distributed systems are cost-effective and fast.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience as a Data Platform/Infra Engineer.
• Proven track record building and operating scalable data infrastructure in Data Lake architectures.
• Experience designing and running large-scale data processing workloads on Kubernetes, including workload autoscaling with KEDA.
• Experience managing a data orchestration platform such as Airflow or Prefect.

Required skills

• Snowflake
• Strong Python and SQL
• Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform
• Kubernetes and KEDA

What we offer

• A comfortable environment, challenging tasks and a long-term interesting project.
• Mobilization reservation available after the probation period (for Ukrainian colleagues).
• 20 days of paid vacation.
• Professional bookkeeping and support from the HR team.