Data Engineer (Data Platform)

sennder is Europe's Leading Digital Freight Forwarder. In a traditional industry, we're moving fast and focusing on the digitalization and automation of road logistics. By leveraging our proprietary technology, we're building an ecosystem that is leading the industry into the 21st century.
ABOUT THE ROLEAs a Data Engineer in sennder’s Platform department, you will play a key role in building and operating the data foundation that powers sennder’s logistics intelligence. Our team ensures trust, reliability, and scalability of sennder’s data ecosystem — enabling hundreds of engineers, analysts, and data scientists to build data-driven products, optimize operations, and deploy AI at scale.
You’ll work at the intersection of data engineering, platform reliability, and DevOps, helping sennder safely invest in, deploy, and use AI technologies on top of a world-class data infrastructure. The role is based in our Berlin or Barcelona office. IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL…

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines and workflows (ETL/ELT) across batch and streaming environments.
• Ensure reliability, observability, and scalability of data services through monitoring, alerting, and automated recovery.
• Operate and evolve sennder’s data warehouse (Snowflake), data marts, and data catalog to support analytics, ML, and operational use cases.
• Implement infrastructure as code (Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes) to manage and deploy data services in production environments.
• Collaborate with Data Analysts, Analytics Engineers, and ML Engineers to deliver clean, discoverable, and compliant datasets.
• Support data quality, security, and compliance through testing, monitoring, and automated validation frameworks.
• Participate in incident response and post-mortem reviews to continuously improve system reliability and data trust.
• Contribute to internal tools and APIs that simplify data access, observability, and experimentation for AI and analytics teams.
• Continuously learn and apply new technologies (e.g., streaming, orchestration, observability, LLMOps) to enhance the platform.
• Participate in the product prioritization process to ensure the right data initiatives are tackled first.
• Continuously learn and apply new technologies to enhance our data platform.

 PREFERABLY YOU HAVE…

• 3+ years of experience in data engineering, platform, or reliability engineering.
• Hands-on experience with a data orchestrator (e.g., Dagster, Airflow).
• Proven experience building pipelines or backend components in Python or a similar language.
• Familiarity with cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift) and data modeling frameworks (e.g., dbt, SQL, Spark).
• Knowledge of DevOps and SRE practices — including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and infrastructure automation.
• Experience with Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes for deploying robust data services.
• Understanding of data architectures, security, and compliance in modern data platforms.
• A collaborative mindset, strong communication skills, and curiosity for enabling others through data and AI.

WHY CHOOSE sennder…We believe in empowering our people to grow beyond their limits, embrace challenges, and create solutions that drive our collective success. Our culture thrives on entrepreneurial spirit, resilience, and collaboration.
Dynamic Scale-Up sennder is at a pivotal stage – transitioning from a scale-up to a sustainably growing company. This means we move fast and constantly push ourselves to improve. Joining us means being part of an ambitious, international team of talented individuals who value teamwork as much as bold thinking. Face-to-face connections across our offices remain central – it's not uncommon to travel to our offices across Europe to collaborate as we tackle challenges and celebrate wins, together.
Put Your Stamp on the Industry We operate in a complex and ever-changing industry where your ideas and efforts have tangible, transformative impact. This is your chance to be hands-on in creating sustainable, meaningful solutions that help businesses thrive.
Employee Well-Being We make mental wellbeing and engagement a priority through initiatives like our sennCare program, a partnership with nilo (global wellbeing platform), and regular satisfaction surveys via Culture Amp. And most importantly, work alongside people who truly care about you as a person. There is something special about the people at sennder that goes beyond just ‘work’.
Your Growth, Rewarded We believe in rewarding our team for their commitment and contributions to our long-term suc