Data Platform Engineer
As a Software Developer, you will build and enhance the core infrastructure and services powering a global data ecosystem. Operating within Platform Engineering, the Data Platform team provides real-time streaming, cloud-based databases, release management, distributed key-value storage and bespoke technical solutions.
These platforms enable developers to access, process and manage information in real-time and at immense scale. Focusing on real-time stream processing, cloud infrastructure management, system integration and release automation, you will develop, enhance and support an expanding, business-critical platform. This involves contributing to the management of a comprehensive suite of services, tools and platforms, utilising technologies such as Golang, Kafka, Flink, GCP, Spanner and BigQuery.
- Developing applications using Golang, Kafka, Flink, GCP, SQL and other technologies.
- Supporting applications in their Kafka journey from design through to implementation.
- Maintaining clean coding practices.
- Creating automation and developer tooling.
- Identifying technical areas for improvement.
- Contributing to streaming and storage solutions independently and alongside the wider development function.
- Assisting the testing team during the testing phases of projects.
- Conducting functional and performance testing while undertaking quality assurance of code to ensure accuracy.
- Proficiency in Golang and/or Python (required).
- Background in using Apache Kafka (required).
- Familiarity with high-volume transactional environments (required).
- Track record of developing low-latency, highly available and scalable solutions (required).
- Knowledge of dashboards and good practices around the monitoring stack (required).
- Capability to manage multiple projects with independent deadlines and deliverables (required).
- Competence in working with Linux (required).
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