Senior Data Platform Engineer

Location: Intellias Meet your recruiter Bohdana Rubets bohdana.rubets@intellias.com https://www.linkedin.com... Vacancy details Data Engineering Data Engineer Senior Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland Remote APPLY NOW REFER A FRIEND Let’s breathe life into great tech ideas! With 3,000 people globally, Intellias is a company where benchmark technological solutions are born. Join in and take your part in digitalizing the world. What project we have for you Our client is building the standard path for governed data sharing across product services, analytics, and AI/ML. The Data Platform team owns the contracts, control mechanisms, publication paths, catalog metadata, lifecycle rules, lineage, permissions, and runtime building blocks that make reusable data safe and practical at scale. This is a role for someone who wants to shape a platform early, while working on concrete production problems from the start. Our client already has the production systems, Kafka backbone, PostgreSQL databases, analytical consumers, and AI/ML use cases that need a better data foundation. The challenge is to turn that reality into a standard path that engineers actually want to use. Our first milestone is focused: centrally managed publishing tables in service-owned PostgreSQL databases, captured through Debezium CDC into Kafka, and registered in DataHub with ownership, lifecycle, lineage, and impact-analysis metadata. Longer-term, the platform expands toward self-service data products, governed materialisations, durable shared state, and reusable data across the client’s operational and analytical systems. This is not a role where you only maintain an existing reporting pipeline. You will help design and build the platform path that other engineering teams use when they publish and consume shared data. What you will do Design and build platform services, tools, and workflows for contract-driven data publishing and consumption. Build the first production path for platform-managed PostgreSQL publishing tables, Debezium CDC, Kafka topics, and catalog registration. Create GitOps-style workflows where contracts, schemas, ownership, lifecycle, compatibility, policy metadata, and runtime desired state are reviewed, validated, and reconciled as code. Build tooling that gives product engineers fast feedback before they publish or change data products. Help define how client models data products, publishing contracts, schema evolution, field stability, deletion semantics, access policy, lineage, and cost attribution. Operate and improve the CDC runtime model, including Kubernetes workloads, source-specific isolation, offsets, schema history, heartbeats, signal channels, lag visibility, replay, resnapshotting, and recovery. Integrate platform metadata into DataHub so engineers can discover data products, understand ownership, trace lineage, and reason about the impact of changes. Work with product, infrastructure, data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML teams to make the standard path easier and safer than bespoke point-to-point integrations. What you need for this Strong experience building and operating production software systems, preferably in platform, infrastructure, backend, or data-intensive environments. Deep understanding of distributed systems trade-offs: reliability, idempotency, replay, eventual consistency, ownership boundaries, compatibility, and operational failure modes. Practical experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases, including schema design, migrations, transactions, replication, or operational performance. Experience with Kafka, event streaming, CDC, Debezium, or adjacent data-movement technologies. Direct Debezium experience is valuable, but strong fundamentals matter more. Experience building software that other engineers use: CLIs, internal platforms, control planes, automation, CI validation, developer tooling, or self-service workflows. Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud or infrastructure platforms, including runtime isolation, deployment, observability, and operational ownership. Ability to turn ambiguous architectural direction into practical increments, make trade-offs explicit, and deliver useful production systems without waiting for perfect certainty. Clear written and spoken communication in English. This role involves aligning multiple engineering teams around standards, contracts, and ownership boundaries. Nice to have: DataHub or other data catalog, lineage, or governance systems. Open table formats such as Apache Iceberg, object-store-backed data lakes, S3, BigQuery, ClickHouse, or analytical storage systems. GitHub Actions, policy-as-code, infrastructure-as-code, controllers, operators, or reconciliation-based systems. Data contracts, schema registries, Protobuf, Avro, JSON Schema, compatibility checking, field-level metadata, or contract testing. Experience supporting analytics, AI/ML, feature-store-style access patterns, or cross-domain product-service integrations. Experience with JVM languages and Python, TypeScript, Go, or Ruby. What it’s like to work at Intellias At Intellias, where technology takes center stage, people always come before processes. By creating a comfortable atmosphere in our team, we empower individuals to unlock their true potential and achieve extraordinary results. That’s why we offer a range of benefits that support your well-being and charge your professional growth. We are committed to fostering equity, diversity, and inclusion as an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, gender, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We welcome and celebrate the uniqueness of every individual. Join Intellias for a career where your perspectives and contributions are vital to our shared success.