Principal Data Engineer

Built and run from Rotterdam, the site connects pet owners with local sitters and dog walkers.

de Jong Marketplace has an opening for a Principal Data Engineer. This hire will help replace a set of fragile nightly scripts with tested, monitored pipelines. Remote, open to candidates across the Netherlands. Day-to-day communication is in Slack and Google Meet.

Job duties:

• Model data in dbt using staging, intermediate and mart layers
• Work with analysts to define metrics and fix discrepancies between reports
• Tune slow queries and expensive jobs
• Maintain CI for data code and review pull requests

About you:

• 8-10 years of data engineering, or backend work with data at volume
• Understanding of dimensional modelling and slowly changing dimensions
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD and testing practices for data code
• Hands-on with an orchestration tool such as Airflow
• Strong Python for data processing
• Expert SQL, including window functions and query tuning

What we offer:

Salary range: €8,900 - €11,500/month

• Pension scheme
• 8% holiday allowance
• Bike plan
• Training budget
• Laptop and phone

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Include your expected salary and earliest start date with your application.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at de Jong Marketplace.