Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer for a full-time position (40 hours per week) in Europe. Our client is one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing job sites.
In this position, you will provide hands-on engineering support for data-platform modernization, migration, and reliability efforts. The role is needed to reduce the operational support load, modernize legacy Hadoop, Hive, and Airflow workloads, and move data-platform capabilities toward Snowflake, Confluent, AWS, and our client’s standards.
Requirements
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3+ years of Senior-level, hands-on experience in production data-platform engineering, with a platform/DevOps-leaning background and strong data experience.
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Strong Python, bash, and SQL skills.
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Production experience with both Snowflake and Confluent/Kafka, with a focus on DevOps and operations.
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Deep experience in one and working knowledge of the other is acceptable, in either combination:
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Deep Snowflake and AWS experience, with working Kafka knowledge (topics, connectors, schemas).
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Deep Kafka/Confluent and AWS experience, with working Snowflake knowledge.
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Experience operating or migrating production systems across development, stage, and production environments.
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Strong troubleshooting, incident-response, testing, documentation, and cross-team communication skills.
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Experience with least-privilege access, change control, secrets handling, and secure operational practices.
Will be a plus
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Experience with Apache Spark and Hadoop/Hive/HQL, including modernizing or migrating legacy workloads.
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Experience with Snowpark, dbt alternatives, AWS Glue, Monte Carlo, or other data-quality and catalog tools.
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Experience migrating legacy Airflow, Hadoop, or Hive workloads to cloud-native or managed platforms.
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Experience working through a company migration or acquisition and aligning systems to a new organization’s standards.
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Familiarity with Snowflake-to-Iceberg or Snowflake-to-data-lake migration patterns.
Responsibilities
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Help migrate our client’s acquired infrastructure and data-platform workloads to our client’s infrastructure.
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Help move data-platform infrastructure and workloads to AWS us-east-2 (USE2), including the required connectivity, deployment, and operational prerequisites.
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Enable secure, governed access to the acquired data for our client’s data-platform consumers and downstream systems.
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Modernize the data-platform architecture, tooling, orchestration, storage, and operational practices to align with our client’s standards.
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Support Snowflake, Confluent/Kafka, AWS, and data-platform infrastructure migration and operations across stage and production.
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Participate in production troubleshooting, incident response, documentation, runbook creation, and cross-team migration coordination.
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Use Terraform/IaC, GitLab, monitoring, and documented processes to deliver repeatable and auditable changes.
We offer
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US and EU projects based on advanced technologies.
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Competitive compensation based on skills and experience.
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Regular performance appraisals to support your growth.
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Flexibility in workspace, either remote or our welcoming office.
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Bonuses for article writing, public talks, and other activities.
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Generous time off, including vacation, national holidays, sick leaves, and family days.
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Personalized learning programs tailored to your interests and skill development.
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Free tech webinars and meetups organized by Svitla.
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Regular corporate online activities.
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Awesome team and a friendly, supportive community!
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