Lead Data Engineer - Site Reliability

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We are looking for a Lead Data Engineer - Site Reliability!

As an SRE you will bridge software engineering and system administration with a focus on ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of software systems operating on common cloud infrastructures. You will proactively monitor cloud-enabled pipelines and drive continuous improvement initiatives to improve efficiency and minimize system down time. You’ll work closely with data engineers, cloud engineers, data stewards, software developers, data scientists, and domain experts to build observable and scalable cloud-based infrastructures using modern cloud-native and open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies. You’ll push standardization and provide a paved path for other engineers by building and deploying Kubernetes (k8s) Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and webhook.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Drive system design discussions and software development within engineering teams
• Monitor and manage observability and alerting of containerized applications and workflows to ensure performance and reliability of assets that meet or exceed stated SLOs
• Work closely with cloud engineers and platform engineers to build CI/CD pipelines and standardize deployment patterns
• Participate in the service and pipeline development lifecycle, including contributing, reviewing, and documenting code and infrastructure choices
• Optimize event-driven data processing tasks using modern queuing solutions
• Integrate and manage data flows across cloud platforms
• Provide technical support, incident response, troubleshooting, and resolution for issues
• Ensure compliance with company and industry standards and best practices for data security and regulatory requirements
• Stay updated on emerging data engineering technologies and data infrastructures and evaluate their potential impact and application in our systems and processes
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior data engineers and foster a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning
• Collaborate with Principal Engineers to ensure a cohesive and coherent architecture
• Communication of technical principles, solutions, and recommendations with business stakeholders, product managers, and other technical leaders
• Participate in an on-call rotation (but rarely paged/alerted) and be able to occasionally work with flexible hours

WHO YOU ARE:

Required:

• Cloud & Container Technologies: Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS+GCP), Kubernetes, containerization, Linux fundamentals, networking, and related technologies
• Reliability & Scalability: Strong understanding of distributed systems, system design, error budgets, capacity planning and other patterns that ensure resilient, scalable, and efficient infrastructure
• Observability & Automation: Strong skills in metrics gathering, monitoring, logging, alerting, automation, and CI/CD to drive efficiency and reduce operational burden
• Risk & Change Management: Familiarity with risk management, change processes, and SLIs/SLOs
• Software design: Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture and testing strategies, including load balancing, message queuing and ordering, caching, resiliency and redundancy

Preferred:

• Highly proficient (5+ years) in Python or Golang with a strong track record of maintaining production data pipelines and backend systems
• Experience with PostgreSQL/PostGIS enabled databases
• Understanding of geospatial data concepts and experience with data processing and analysis using geospatial libraries and tools
• Familiarity with cloud-based machine learning services and platforms such as Google Cloud Vertex AI or AWSSagemaker and experience invoking model endpoints
• Experience working with customers and developers to deliver full-stack development solutions and the ability to translate customer requirements into technical requirements
• Knowledge of the agricultural domain

You feel you do not meet all criteria we are looking for? That doesn’t mean you aren’t the right fit for the role. Apply with confidence, we value potential over perfection!

WHAT DO WE OFFER:

• A flexible, hybrid work model
• Great workplace in a new modern office in Warsaw