Senior DevOps Engineer – Data Platform

🔥 13 hours ago

🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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Kaufland e-commerce

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2015

🛍️ eCommerce

🏪 Marketplace

🤝 B2B

eCommerce • Marketplace • B2B

Kaufland e-commerce is the technology arm and employer brand powering Kaufland’s international online marketplaces. It builds and operates the Kaufland online marketplaces and Kaufland Global Marketplace (KGM) — a B2B all‑in‑one seller solution — and develops related digital products (for example the Kaufland app and Kaufland Card). As an independent tech company collaborating with Kaufland retail, KEC focuses on marketplace platform, product and engineering teams and employs 800+ people across multiple German locations and remote to serve millions of customers and thousands of merchants across Europe.

📋 Description

• Run and own the self-hosted Apache Kafka backbone and Schema Registry end-to-end • Manage Kafka ACLs, client quotas, certificates, upgrades, and disaster recovery • Operate Debezium-based change data capture pipelines, including connectors, snapshots, offsets, replica lag, and BigQuery sink loaders • Run Kubernetes workloads, including the Navarch workflow orchestrator executing approximately 7,500 SQL and Python tasks daily • Own Kubernetes resource management, autoscaling, and debugging • Automate access management and infrastructure as code across self-hosted GitLab CI/CD pipelines • Replace manual tickets with code-driven access policies • Own observability and infrastructure costs using Datadog, Slack-native alerting, and cost tracking for Kubernetes, Kafka retention, and log volumes • Participate in triage one week in three, handling ingestion and access requests, schema alerts, and analyst support • Help automate triage through AI-assisted review • Act as a senior sparring partner to two senior data engineers, reporting to the Head of Data & Analytics • Drive design reviews and multi-quarter initiatives • Potentially grow into BigQuery architecture involving access frameworks, partitioning, slot strategy, pipelines, and models • Optionally participate in the 24/7 on-call rotation

🎯 Requirements

• Several years of experience operating production infrastructure with personal responsibility, including on-call rotation • Ability to explain production incidents, permanent fixes, and concrete trade-offs backed by numbers • Deep hands-on expertise in Apache Kafka broker operations, including cluster sizing, partition rebalancing, replication, ISR behavior, and version upgrades • Production experience with cross-system data replication, ideally Debezium on Kafka Connect or database replication via binlog, GTID, WAL, or agent-based pipelines • Strong production experience with Kubernetes, resource management, autoscaling, and debugging complex failure modes • Infrastructure and access management as code across multiple environments • Experience with Terraform and Ansible preferred; Pulumi, Helm, or serious configuration management also accepted • Strict least-privilege IAM approach across multiple environments • GCP experience preferred, or transferable AWS/Azure knowledge • Production-grade Python and SQL skills • Cost-conscious approach to query performance, scanning volume, and data pruning • Ability to work in a low-process, Kanban-driven environment and self-organize • Fluent English at C1 level • Optional skills or interest in object-oriented design, data modeling/dbt, BigQuery architecture, Airflow, Dagster, Beam, Flink, Spark, n8n, or AI triage bots

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work within Germany or work from locations in Cologne, Darmstadt, Düsseldorf, or Berlin • Attractive relocation package for moving to Germany • Urban Sports Club and RSG Group Fitness Studios deals • Mental well-being offerings, including Instahelp online psychological counseling • 30 days of vacation per year • Sabbatical opportunity after a qualifying period • Option for Pluxee restaurant vouchers with tax-advantaged meal allowances • Subsidized Deutschlandticket • Monthly Kaufland.de employee coupon • Choice of operating system: MacOS or Ubuntu Linux • Online language learning programs • Diverse in-house training • Automated 360-degree feedback • Costs covered for relevant conferences, training opportunities, and approved team workshops • Digital onboarding journey • Buddy program • Regular team and company events, all-hands meetings, and powerful mornings • Flat hierarchies, start-up mentality, international team, and agile working environment