Junior Data Engineer, Snowflake

Who we are

Most of our traffic is mobile, so the iOS and Android apps get as much attention as the website. Built and run from Bern, the site connects pet owners with local sitters and dog walkers. Product reviews happen on Thursdays, with demos of whatever shipped that week.

What this job is

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Junior Data Engineer, Snowflake. The Analytics team moves data from about 30 source systems into Snowflake. You'll own ingestion, modelling and data quality checks. Remote, open to candidates across Switzerland. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. Equipment is provided, including a laptop.

What you'll work on

• Write data quality tests with dbt or Great Expectations and alert on failures
• Design table layouts and partitioning for Parquet, Delta Lake or Iceberg
• Respond to pipeline failures and backfill data when needed
• Tune slow queries and expensive jobs
• Document datasets and lineage in a catalogue such as DataHub or Atlan
• Build batch and streaming pipelines with Airflow, Dagster or Prefect

Requirements

• 1+ years of data engineering, or backend work with data at volume
• Hands-on with an orchestration tool such as Airflow
• Expert SQL, including window functions and query tuning
• Strong Python for data processing
• Working knowledge of AWS, GCP or Azure data services

Desirable

• Kafka, Flink or Spark Structured Streaming

Why work with us

Compensation: CHF 83,000-CHF 101,000/year

• Company pension scheme
• Up to 3 days of home office per week
• Christmas bonus
• Home office equipment
• JobRad bike leasing

Candidates must be eligible to work in Switzerland.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Chevalley Online.