Senior Data Engineer

We’re looking for collaborative and creative individuals who are excited to help shape the future of journalism in the digital age. The Data Platform is the backbone of our data ecosystem — enabling innovation, ensuring compliance, and creating value at scale. We empower teams and brands to build, share, and monetize data products on a secure, governed, and cost-efficient platform — with privacy built in from day one. Sounds interesting? Then join us as a senior data engineer.

How you'll make an impact:

• you partner with engineering, analytics, and product teams to design and build impactful data solutions
• you modernize our data platform—shaping architecture, challenging the status quo, and balancing innovation with efficiency
• you build and run scalable, high-performance data pipelines for both batch and streaming applications
• you model and optimize terabyte-size datasets to drive insights and enable ML/AI applications
• you mentor junior teammates and foster a culture of technical excellence and collaboration
• you champion best practices in engineering, testing, privacy, and governance

What you'll need:

• you possess deep experience with distributed systems, particularly Apache Spark in production settings
• you write clean code in Python, Scala, or Java, and follow solid engineering principles
• you embrace CI/CD and DevOps workflows for fast, reliable data engineering
• you think analytically and care deeply about data lifecycle and quality assurance
• you understand ML fundamentals and work effectively with data scientists
• you’ve architected and evolved modern data platforms.
• you know your way around platforms like Palantir Foundry, Databricks, Snowflake, or Microsoft Fabric.
• you lead initiatives across teams (without needing formal authority)

What we offer:

• your personal growth is important to us: we offer trainings and learning lunches, tech conferences, a budget for workshops and much more to expand your knowledge and your skills
• flexible working hours support a healthy work-life balance
• our free food offer: in addition to a breakfast snack, we also offer a free lunch in our canteens
• 30 days vacation plus 10 days working from abroad
• free choice of top-notch office equipment (also for your remote work space and private usage), up-to-date hardware, software and modern office spaces that provide you with maximum flexibility
• collaboration thrives on direct exchange - we rely on 80% office presence and 20% mobile working
• from now a permanent full- or part-time position in a modern office in the heart of the city: http://www.axelspringer-neubau.de/

Getting curious? Check out what we are doing on GitHub or check out our Techblog.

The central pillar for Tech & Product and Central Functions of Axel Springer's German media offerings. We ensure that our strong national brands (including BILD, WELT) are optimally positioned to drive journalism forward. We are looking for new colleagues who are not dizzy at our pace of change and who want to actively shape the future of the media with their own ideas.

Questions and answers about the application process

The most frequently asked questions and their answers can be found on our FAQ page: career.axelspringer.com/en/faq

Diversity is an essential part of our corporate culture! We are looking forward to receiving all applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, ideology, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.

You can find information about the representation for the severely disabled at Axel Springer here: https://career.axelspringer.com/en/ksbv

Contact person for this position (reference number REF2430L) is Marcel Burmester #LI-MB2