Lead Data Platform Engineer (German Speaker)

SaasGroup
Europe
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Mentorship","Problem-solving"]

Hands-on technical leader responsible for owning INFOnline’s central, cloud-native data platform on GCP. You will scale, harden, and evolve data ingestion through reporting, drive AI-native engineering practices, set standards, mentor teammates, and partner with product and leadership to deliver reliable, scalable data capabilities for German/Austrian digital audience measurement.

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SaasGroup
SaasGroup
3 months ago

Lead Data Platform Engineer (German Speaker)

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Job Summary

Hands-on technical leader responsible for owning INFOnline’s central, cloud-native data platform on GCP. You will scale, harden, and evolve data ingestion through reporting, drive AI-native engineering practices, set standards, mentor teammates, and partner with product and leadership to deliver reliable, scalable data capabilities for German/Austrian digital audience measurement.
Location: Europe
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the end-to-end data platform roadmap and drive its execution from architecture decisions to day-to-day platform operations
  • •Take accountability for data ingress, streaming processing, batch aggregation, data modeling, quality, delivery and reporting logic
  • •Ensure reliability, scalability and performance through strong monitoring, observability and incident management practices
  • •Continuously improve the new GCP-native platform with a focus on stability, cost efficiency, maintainability and business continuity
  • •Collaborate closely with Product, Customer Success and Leadership to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
  • •Drive AI-native engineering adoption, including AI-assisted coding, refactoring, testing, documentation and code reviews and establish standards for safe, effective use
  • •Work with external specialists where useful and establish sustainable internal ownership of all critical platform components

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Remote WorkLow Bureaucracy

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Platform Engineering, or Platform Engineering in production environments
  • •Solid Go (Golang) proficiency; core backend systems are written in Go
  • •Strong hands-on experience with GCP Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL
  • •Strong SQL and analytical data modeling skills; familiarity with SQLMesh or similar dbt-style orchestration tools is a plus
  • •Practical experience with Terraform / IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized workloads (Docker; serverless)
Experience:5+ yearsData engineeringData platformCloud
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipMentorshipProblem-solving
Languages:GermanEnglish
Tech Stack:GoGolangGCPCloud RunPub/SubBigQueryDataflowCloud StorageCloud SQLTerraformCI/CDDockerProtobufSQLMeshClaude CodeCodex

Company Brief

SaasGroup
Acquires, operates, and scales SaaS businesses by providing capital, operational support, and go-to-market expertise to grow recurring-revenue software companies globally.
Industry: Conglomerates & Holding Companies
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