Data Engineer

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🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🚰 Data Engineer

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DKSR - Data Competence Center for Cities & Regions

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏥 Healthcare

Consulting • Logistics • Healthcare

<DKSR - Data Competence Center for Cities & Regions> is a specialist organization that helps cities and regions use data to plan, operate and govern urban systems more sustainably and resiliently. They develop and provide an open-source Smart City Data Hub called CIVORA — an urban data platform offering dashboards, a data catalog, digital twins, analysis tools and role-based data governance — and they offer consulting, data science, training and implementation services to municipal clients. DKSR focuses on data infrastructure, data governance, real-time data integration and pragmatic tools for city administrations, service providers and citizens, emphasizing sustainability, resilience and collaborative, open solutions.

📋 Description

• Build and operate the data infrastructure powering CIVORA, DKSR’s urban data hub for cities and regions • Contribute to platform components and internal tooling • Collaborate with product and project delivery teams to shape reusable, scalable, and well-documented data infrastructure • Design and maintain batch and streaming data pipelines serving multiple cities and use cases • Support complex and mission-critical use cases and establish best practices and design patterns • Write clean, maintainable, testable software • Propose and prototype new approaches and challenge existing patterns • Understand business problems, refine requirements, design systems, and deliver solutions end-to-end • Work closely with the Data Architect and product development team

🎯 Requirements

• 1–3 years of relevant experience in data engineering and software development • B.Sc. in Computer Science, Data Science, Data Engineering, or a related field; equivalent professional experience is also welcome • Python for data processing with pandas, NumPy, and scikit-learn, along with structured software development practices • SQL and an understanding of relational database design • Hands-on experience with Apache Airflow or a similar pipeline orchestration tool • Familiarity with the Kafka protocol or similar streaming systems • Experience with Docker containerization • Working knowledge of cloud concepts and infrastructure-as-code principles, including Helm and Terraform • Comfortable communicating in spoken and written English • Proactive team player and direct communicator • Experience with agentic development using GitHub, Copilot, or Claude • Kubernetes experience is preferred • Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP is preferred • Ability to read and work with Java, JavaScript, Rust, or Go is an advantage • Willingness to learn and operate technologies including Helm, OpenTofu/Terraform, MinIO/SeaweedFS, Apache Superset, Apache Iceberg, Lakekeeper, Redpanda, Kafka Connect, Trino, and MLflow • German is not required, but is highly valuable • Must already reside in Germany and be legally authorized to work in Germany • Visa sponsorship and relocation support are not provided

🏖️ Benefits

• Job Ticket or Job Bike – for a sustainable commute • Professional development budget • 30 days of vacation, plus time off on December 24 and December 31 • Corporate Benefits • Subsidy for Urban Sports Club • Open feedback culture • Support when you need it – and space when you want it