Senior Data Platform Engineer - Data Operations Team

Deezer

Paris, France

Job Description

The Data Operations team's mission is to provide Deezer teams with trusted data, innovative data solutions that are easy to use and understand.

Within Data Operations, the Data Platform team owns and evolves the technical foundation that powers all data across Deezer. The scope covers the full lifecycle of our data: ingesting hundreds of millions of streaming events per day (music, podcasts, lyrics, and more) into our data lake, transforming and curating this data at scale, and making it reliably available for internal consumers (royalties calculation, content reporting, analytics, recommendation, and beyond).

In short: we build and operate the data infrastructure that connects every Deezer team to the data they need.

What you will do

Improve the reliability and efficiency of the data ingestion system, with various data sources such as Kafka, MariaDB, Segment and others
Maintain the solutions that powers Deezer’s Data Platform (On prem or cloud services)
Support the rollout of our new Airflow platform, scheduling GCP jobs on Spark & BigQuery
Own monitoring and alerting of the Platform’s pipelines and budget
Work hand-in-hand with stakeholders (Business Analysts, Royalties team, ML Engineers…) to understand their needs and deliver fit-for-purpose solutions
Participate in agile ceremonies: quarter planning, sprint planning, daily standups and retrospectives
Propose and implement improvements to existing stack or pipelines based on your technical watch

Qualifications

Essentials:

5+ years of experience in Data Platform Engineering
Solid experience with Ops topics (CI/CD, monitoring, infrastructure, Software deployment, Finops) and tools (Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes)
Solid experience with Spark/Scala, Python, SQL, BigQuery and ETL management
Proactive, organized and with strong team spirit
Fluent in English