(Senior) Data Engineer (all genders) - Infrastructure

<h2 id="employment-details">Employment details</h2> <p>Permanent contract, Full- or Part-time, Remote or Cologne / Darmstadt / Düsseldorf</p> <h2 id="info">Info</h2> <h2 id="who-we-are">Who we are</h2> <p>We operate the international <a href="https://www.kaufland.de/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">online marketplaces</a> of Kaufland: Several thousand sellers and millions of products make us one of the fastest growing online marketplaces. Ours is a dynamic corporate culture that merges a start-up mentality with the opportunities offered by a large corporation. We combine knowledge and many years of experience in e-commerce with flat hierarchies and a highly motivated team. </p> <p><strong>We love flexibility!</strong> We offer you the best environment to work in a flexible and focussed way: You get to decide whether you want to work in one of our offices in Cologne // Darmstadt // Düsseldorf, but also have the opportunity to work remotely (within Germany) and choose the best of both. We want to offer you the most attractive workplace in e-commerce and maximum flexibility for your personal work-life balance. </p> <p>Day by day, our development team of about 350 experts pursues the goal of creating the best possible customer shopping experience for our online marketplace. To enrich the lives of our customers, we collaborate in cross-functional teams. Learn about how they are structured and more details about our product areas here: <a href="https://kaufland-ecommerce.com/en/team/tech/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://kaufland-ecommerce.com/en/team/tech/</a>.</p> <h2 id="tasks">Tasks</h2> <p>As a Data Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the infrastructure that supports our data pipelines and streaming applications. </p> <h2 id="your-tasks--this-is-what-awaits-you-in-detail">Your tasks – this is what awaits you in detail</h2> <ul> <li>You join our Data Engineering team and work alongside our data engineers as part of our Data &amp; Analytics area, reporting to the Head of Data &amp; Analytics</li> <li>You design, develop and maintain our Kafka and Debezium infrastructure, including topics, connectors, and brokers</li> <li>You develop and maintain Ansible playbooks for infrastructure configuration and management</li> <li>You develop and maintain Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and other deployment artifacts</li> <li>You monitor and troubleshoot issues related to Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications</li> <li>You develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) and collaborate with other teams to ensure consistent infrastructure management across the organization</li> <li>Optional: You take part in our 24/7 on-call rotation</li> </ul> <h2 id="profile">Profile</h2> <h2 id="your-profile--this-is-what-we-expect-from-you">Your profile – this is what we expect from you</h2> <ul> <li>3+ years of experience in data engineering with a focus on infrastructure topics</li> <li>Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex issues</li> <li>You have professional experience in software engineering using Python</li> <li>You have experience in using at least three of the following technologies: <ul> <li>Change data capture, ideally Debezium </li> <li>Container Orchestration, ideally Kubernetes </li> <li>Public Cloud Providers, ideally Google Cloud Platform </li> <li>Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform </li> <li>Message brokers, ideally Apache Kafka </li> <li>Configuration management tools, ideally Ansible</li> </ul> </li> <li>You have a strong interest in working in an agile, mostly remote environment</li> <li>You have excellent communication skills, are willing to embrace our company culture and values and enjoy working in an international, English speaking team</li> </ul> <h2 id="benefits">Benefits</h2> <h2 id="what-we-offer">What we offer</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Create your own work-life balance:</strong> Work remotely (within Germany) or at one of our locations in Cologne, Darmstadt, Düsseldorf!</li> <li><strong>Diversity and variety:</strong> An international environment with talents from over 55 different nations creates innovative and exciting perspectives</li> <li><strong>Do you want to move to Germany?</strong> No problem – we offer you an attractive relocation package to give you a smooth start.</li> <li><strong>Power meets dynamic</strong> <strong>:</strong> Flat hierarchies and start-up mentality meet the power of a big corporate group, providing you an agile and secure working environment</li> <li><strong>Free choice of hardware:</strong> MacBook or Lenovo Linux, it's up to you</li> <li><strong>We are team players:</strong> Our strong bond extends beyond our own team: we stay connected thanks to our many internal offerings, such as our digital <a href="https://kaufland-ecommerce.com/en/blog/insights/digital-onboarding-with-our-welcome-day/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">onboarding program</a