Senior Data Platform Engineer (all genders) - Data Lake Platform

Join us as a Senior Data Platform Engineer (all genders) in our Data Lake Platform team and help shape the future of autonomous mobility!

The Data Platform team ensures that all data generated at MOIA can be accessed and processed in our data platform. We rely on a wide variety of AWS services to build our data products and keep our stack as serverless as possible. You will work at the core of MOIAs data engine room and interact with colleagues fr om 10 + different Teams. We provide automation, tools, operate services and evangelize best practices so that data at MOIA is processed in an efficient, secure and privacy compliant way. We strive towards enabling our users to work as independently and self-sufficiently as possible.

What you will do

• Enable teams across the company to get value from data using our internal tools and platform . You'll work with engineers, analysts, and stakeholders across. You'll work with engineers, analysts, and stakeholders across different tech stacks and business domains - for a platform team. Communicating well is as important as the code we write.
• Set up and govern Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio (SMUS) for other teams, so they can work independently without us becoming a bottleneck.
• Keep our AWS data infrastructure available, scalable, and secure, and own the operational side of what you build.
• Build and optimize event-driven ingestion pipelines with Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Data Firehose and AWS Lambda.
• Help the team grow.

What will help you to fulfill your role

• You want to work as a team, not just alone : pair programming, sharing knowledge, mentoring and clear communication should feel natural in your day-to-day work rather than overhead.
• Strong programming skills in Python. Experience with the JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem and/or a JVM language is a plus.
• Experience developing and running applications in cloud-native environments (for example AWS Lambda and S3), deployed through Infrastructure as Code with CDK or Terraform.
• A solid DevOps foundation: CI/CD, containers, monitoring and alerting.
• Working knowledge of table and data formats such as Apache Iceberg, Parquet, Protocol Buffers.
• Hands-on experience applying AI in a data context: to speed up your own development, to automate routine work, and to help others do the same.

Nice-to-Haves:

• Exposure to data governance, GDPR and data privacy engineering.
• Experience with SQL in both analytical and transactional databases.
• Familiarity with orchestration frameworks for data pipelines, such as Apache Airflow.
• Experience designing and building (data) APIs.

We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds — even if you don’t meet every requirement. If you’re excited about the role and MOIA’s mission, we’d love to hear from you!

Our benefits in a nutshell

• Competitive salary (including bonus)
• Hybrid work setup: Work from home or one of our offices - you and your team decide how often to meet, blending flexibility with collaboration!
• Flexible working hours and the possibility of flexible work arrangements depending on your needs (parenting, care work, volunteering, etc.)
• Budget and monthly expense allowance for home office setup
• Possibility of remote work from outside Germany for up to 6 weeks per year from over 35 countries - learn more in our blog !
• Public transport ticket (fully subsidized "Deutschlandticket") for commuting and travelling throughout Germany and discount on MOIA rides
• Subsidized fitness club membership or bike leasing
• Learning environment with continuous learning days, job rotation, trainings and workshops, coaching, conferences, books, and language classes
• Mental health support, 1:1 sessions with external professionals and mental unload workshops
• 30 vacation days, sabbatical and unpaid leave option
• Relocation support with service provider (visa, administration, etc.)
• Dog-friendly offices

For student & internship positions, we have an adjusted set of benefits. You can find them here .

Be who you are!

We are a member of Charta der Vielfalt and are dedicated to actively fostering a workplace that celebrates and promotes diversity in various aspects such as age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or cognitive ability, and ethnicity. At MOIA, we embrace a culture where people are accepted, respected, valued, appreciated, and included.

In our commitment to promoting diversity and inclusivity, we regularly provide unconscious bias training to all our employees. Furthermore, we continuously strive to enhance our hiring process by ensuring a diverse hiring panel.

How we work

At MOIA, our teams are typically distributed across our office locations and collaborate in a hybrid setup. We work together both remotely and on site, choosing the mode of collaboration that fits the context, the work at hand, and each team’s rhythm.

Spending time together in our offices is an important part of how we stay connected, build …