Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform

AI overview

Contribute to building a scalable data infrastructure to support real-time analytics and AI while optimizing resources for a data-driven organization.

The Data Platform team is supporting our next big bets: Data, AI, and real-time analytics. We are building an AI-ready, self-serve, and scalable infrastructure to enable the next generation of data products. Our team is a critical enabler for Data Science and Operational squads, ensuring our platform is reliable, secure, and high-performing.

What you’ll do

  • Design and maintain a best-in-class data infrastructure to support critical processes
  • Develop automations that improve the reliability, scalability, and security of the platform
  • Implement observability and monitoring systems integrated with incident management tools
  • Optimize compute resources and processes to ensure cost-effectiveness
  • Set up initial infrastructure for real-time analytics and AI use-cases.

You’ll be great for this role if

  • You have 6+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Software Engineering with a focus on data batch and streaming infrastructure. 
  • You possess strong experience with Terraform and Kubernetes.
  • You have a solid command of programming languages such as Go or Python.
  • You have experience maintaining business-critical, high-traffic infrastructure and services.
  • You are familiar with the Data Engineering stack, including tools like Spark, Airflow, Kafka, and Trino
  • You are driven by the end-user experience and approach platforms from a product perspective.
  • Experience with End2End, load, and testing practices

About SumUp

We believe in the everyday hero.

Small business owners are at the heart of all we do, so we're creating tools that help them run their businesses. With a founder’s mentality and a 'team-first’ attitude, our diverse teams across Europe, South America, and the United States work together to ensure that the small business owners we partner with can be successful doing what they love.

SumUp is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. SumUp does not make hiring or employment decisions based on race, colour, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other basis protected by applicable laws or prohibited by company policy. SumUp also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.

Job Application Tip

We recognise that candidates feel they need to meet 100% of the job criteria in order to apply for a job. Please note that this is only a guide. If you don’t tick every box, it’s ok too because it means you have room to learn and develop your career at SumUp.

We are SumUp At SumUp, we are driven to empower small businesses across the globe by de-hassling their lives and helping them to succeed. Our vision as a global FinTech company is to build the first-ever global card acceptance brand, and we are well on our way as small businesses in over 31 countries around the world rely on SumUp to get paid. To get there we are putting together an awesome team that is committed to one another and to our merchants. You could be our missing link! Help us bring card acceptance to the masses! Our boldness, startup mindset, empathy and love for product foster a creative environment for our employees. We value an entrepreneurial spirit and seek to build lasting relationships among our employees. We know that a diverse and inclusive workforce keeps us competitive and provides opportunities for all. We believe that together we can help small businesses grow.    

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