Statista
Senior Data Platform Engineer (m/f/d)
Hamburg or Berlin, Remote. Posted 3 days ago
The role
You will own and evolve the data platform architecture and build the platform as a product for data domain teams. You will make data governance enforced in the pipeline and deliver data assets to consumers.
What you will do
- Own and shape the platform architecture with Data Architecture and Product.
- Build the platform as a product: standard ingestion framework, roles and permissions, cost monitoring, and agent/AI readiness.
- Make governance computational: data contracts, quality gates, lineage and policies as code.
- Handle monitoring, alerting, SLAs and incident handling.
- Deliver standard output ports (API, MCP server, A2A, Kafka events) and an OpenMetaData catalogue.
- Support domain teams with reference products, an onboarding playbook and hands-on help.
- Bring the technical view into stakeholder discussions.
Required qualifications
- 5+ years in data or platform engineering
- Hands-on depth in Snowflake and AWS
- Infrastructure as code and CI/CD for data workloads with Terraform
- Experience building self-serve capabilities: templates, config-driven onboarding, clear docs, policies as code and cost governance
- Data governance in practice: data contracts, quality checks, lineage, access management, data catalogues
- Strong communication with non-engineers
- Comfortable defending architecture decisions in cross-team steering
Benefits
- Work from abroad up to 30 calendar days a year
- Hybrid work and flex-time
- International team and social events
- Subsidized urban mobility and access to fitness and wellness options
- Free access to Langdock and its functionalities
- Career and training opportunities
- Attractive locations and modern offices
- Mental health support with OpenUp
- Some benefits apply only to the German entity and to Junior-level roles or above
About the company
Statista is a global business data platform founded in Hamburg in 2007, with offices in London, New York, Berlin and Tokyo. It provides reliable data and data analytics products to help people make fact-based decisions.