(Senior) Data Platform Engineer II - Java (m/f/d)

Conductor is a leading Website Optimization & Intelligence platform. Today's top brands use Conductor to create and optimize digital experiences that get found organically in search engines and drive value for customers. The platform provides actionable SEO, content, and technical website intelligence paired with real-time website monitoring to help customers accelerate—and protect—digital growth.

Conductor is a mission-driven company with a commitment to innovation, customer success, and culture. For Conductor, success is improving the lives of all the people in our orbit—our customers, our customers' customers, our employee-owners, and our communities.

(Senior) Data Platform Engineer II - Java (m/f/d) 

(Hybrid in Berlin or remote in Germany/ Full-time/ Permanent Contract)

What are we looking for?

Conductor is seeking a seasoned, product-minded data engineer with data architecture and data platform design experience to power massive scale SaaS applications. The individual plays a pivotal role in the design, development and maintenance of our data platform.

The candidate will

• Collaborate with application developers, cloud infrastructure experts and other stakeholders to gather requirements, design and implement data solutions that meet business needs and execute on the enterprise data strategy.
• Develop, maintain, and test all aspects of Conductors' data platform, including a data lakehouse, ETL pipelines, and efficient data consumption.
• Create position papers and contribute driving Conductors data strategy across teams
• Optimize data storage and retrieval processes to ensure scalability, reliability and cost-effectiveness.
• Leverage Conductor's data platform core tools and technologies such as Onehouse.ai (Hudi), CelerData (StarRocks), Spark, Kafka, and more
• Replace legacy systems with state-of-the-art data pipelines
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, standards, best practices and emerging technologies to continuously improve our data platform.
• Is motivated to understand the challenges in the SEO space, has a passion for solving problems and not just delivering features
• Influences strategic thinking across the team. Advocates for best practices, investigates new technologies and mentors other engineers. 

The successful candidate must thrive in ambiguity with a strong decision-making capability along with a sense of accountability, having a collaborative and supportive attitude. The candidate must have a passion to solve hard problems with technical expertise and a growth-mindset, using strong engineering rigor and data-driven operational skills to drive the desired outcomes across global teams. 

Who you are

• A hands-on data platform engineer with 6+ years experience in data engineering, building scalable and secure data platforms and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-based data storage and processing platforms based on AWS or similar providers.
• Extended knowledge of various database technologies and query languages.
• A strong developer with comprehensive understanding of the data sources, data formats, and data processing challenges at scale 
• A polyglot programmer with expertise in Java
• Have a minimum of bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field. 
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills – can communicate clear technical solutions to complex data problems to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Your Benefits:

• Friendly, open-minded and helpful international colleagues
• Access to the learning platform LinkedIn Learning
• Soft drinks, fruits, and  pizza days
• Team and company events
• Urban Sports (M) or Fitness First membership
• 28 days vacation at the start, 30 days after two years
• Company pension allowance
• Dog-friendly office 

Interested? Then we look forward to receiving your application via the application link on our careers page. After receiving your application, you will immediately receive a confirmation e-mail from us. If you do not receive it, please check your spam folder and redirect the mails from our mail address to your inbox.