Junior Data Engineer

About the job

As Data Engineer your main responsibilities are on building out capabilities of our (geo)data query engine. You’ll be part of the data engineering team, which develops and maintains our satellite data processing engine, geospatial storage and query engine and a set of internal tools used mainly by our OPS team. Our tech stack is Python, Django, PostGIS, deployed on Google Cloud services like GKE and cloud functions. This role will report to Engineering Lead.

What will you do?

You'll be instrumental in empowering our product teams to develop and deploy features that help our clients reach their sustainability targets. You'll ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our cloud-based data platform, enabling us to deliver critical environmental intelligence through our API. Your work will directly contribute to:

• Building and maintaining scalable infrastructure on GCP using infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform

• Optimizing data pipelines for processing and storing massive datasets (ETL, OLAP)

• Developing and managing APIs for efficient data dissemination.

• Implementing data engineering best practices for data quality, security, and performance.

• Collaborating closely with product teams to understand their needs and provide technical guidance.

• Contributing to the design and implementation of data storage solutions using databases like PostgreSQL

• Monitoring and troubleshooting platform performance and ensuring high availability.

About you

• You are an experienced Python developer

• You are experienced with RDBMS, especially postgresql

• You are familiar with Django

• You prefer a well organized codebase over getting your pull requests merged fast

Nice to have

• You are experienced with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform

• You have experience with Google Cloud (Cloud SQL, Cloud Composer, Kubernetes)

• You worked with PostGIS before or bring other experience with geospatial data

What we offer you:

📍Office centrally located in Utrecht city (with direct access via bus 8 or a 20-minute walk from Utrecht Central Station)
😎27 holidays (based on full-time employment)
👐Solid pension scheme with employer contribution
🚆NS Business Card for employees commuting from outside Utrecht
🖥️Laptop and necessary IT equipment provided
🩺Additional income protection in case of long-term illness or disability, complementing the statutory coverage
🥪Daily lunch, fruits, and Aroma Club coffee at the office
🍹Not the main reason to join, but definitely a fun one: Annual Team Week, after-summer drinks with friends and family and a festive Christmas celebration.