Senior Data Platform Engineer

Role overview

Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a 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

• 3+ years of Senior-level, hands-on experience in production data-platform engineering, with a platform/DevOps-leaning background and strong data experience.
• Strong Python, bash, and SQL skills.
• Production experience with both Snowflake and Confluent/Kafka, with a focus on DevOps and operations.
• Deep experience in one and working knowledge of the other is acceptable, in either combination:
• Deep Snowflake and AWS experience, with working Kafka knowledge (topics, connectors, schemas).
• Deep Kafka/Confluent and AWS experience, with working Snowflake knowledge.
• Experience operating or migrating production systems across development, stage, and production environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, incident-response, testing, documentation, and cross-team communication skills.
• Experience with least-privilege access, change control, secrets handling, and secure operational practices.

Will be a plus

• Experience with Apache Spark and Hadoop/Hive/HQL, including modernizing or migrating legacy workloads.
• Experience with Snowpark, dbt alternatives, AWS Glue, Monte Carlo, or other data-quality and catalog tools.
• Experience migrating legacy Airflow, Hadoop, or Hive workloads to cloud-native or managed platforms.
• Experience working through a company migration or acquisition and aligning systems to a new organization’s standards.
• Familiarity with Snowflake-to-Iceberg or Snowflake-to-data-lake migration patterns.

Responsibilities

• Help migrate our client’s acquired infrastructure and data-platform workloads to our client’s infrastructure.
• Help move data-platform infrastructure and workloads to AWS us-east-2 (USE2), including the required connectivity, deployment, and operational prerequisites.
• Enable secure, governed access to the acquired data for our client’s data-platform consumers and downstream systems.
• Modernize the data-platform architecture, tooling, orchestration, storage, and operational practices to align with our client’s standards.
• Support Snowflake, Confluent/Kafka, AWS, and data-platform infrastructure migration and operations across stage and production.
• Participate in production troubleshooting, incident response, documentation, runbook creation, and cross-team migration coordination.
• Use Terraform/IaC, GitLab, monitoring, and documented processes to deliver repeatable and auditable changes.

We offer

• US and EU projects based on advanced technologies.
• Well-established remote culture and flexible working hours.
• No trial period.
• Annual performance appraisals.
• Competitive compensation in USD gross based on skills and experience.
• B2B contract with Svitla Systems Inc. (US legal entity).
• 20 vacation days, 10 national holidays, and 5 paid sick leaves.
• 3 additional days of paid vacation for special life events (marriage, childbirth, etc).
• Personalized learning program tailored to your interests and skill development.
• Bonuses for article writing, public talks, and other activities.
• Free webinars, meetups, and conferences organized by Svitla.
• Awesome team, friendly and supportive community!

Why join Svitla

Svitla Systems is a global digital solutions company headquartered in the U.S., with operations across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

Since 2003, we have served a wide range of clients, from innovative startups to Fortune 500 companies. Our success is built on strong partnerships. By integrating seamlessly with our clients' teams, we build lasting relationships that deliver measurable results.

We are strong advocates of workplace flexibility, remote work culture, and an individual approach to professional and personal growth.

Our global mission is to build a business that contributes to the well-being of our partners, employees, and their families, strengthens our communities, and makes a lasting difference in the world.

Together, we are coding a brighter tomorrow and living it. Join us!