Data Engineer (f/m/x)

Job description

bonial helps you save time, money and paper!

We are a digital advertising partner for offline businesses - we support retailers in their marketing activities and help them find a new audience. Would you like to join and be a part of digitalisation of retail?

Bonial is part of Axel Springer SE and is disrupting the retail landscape as the leading "Drive to Store" partner in Germany and France. Through our platforms "kaufDA" and "MeinProspekt" in Germany, and “Bonial” in France, we connect millions of users with their favorite shops and brands—driving real impact every single day.

We are in the midst of an exciting growth phase, scaling fast and transforming the way people discover retail. At Bonial, we thrive in a high-performance, fast-paced environment fueled by motivated, results-driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference. If you’re looking to be part of a dynamic team that’s shaping the future of retail, we’d love to meet you.

bonial welcomes both full- and part-timers!

INTRODUCTION

We are seeking a Mid-Level Data Engineer to join our growing data platform team. You will play a key role in building, scaling, and maintaining data infrastructure that powers business-critical insights and applications. This role combines engineering excellence with operational responsibility, including participation in our on-call rotation to ensure system reliability.

Your responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL workflows in AWS
• Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform to ensure reproducibility and reliability
• Develop, schedule, and monitor workflows with Apache Airflow (managed via MWAA)
• Operate and optimize containerized data services and applications in our EKS (Kubernetes) cluster
• Ensure high availability, performance, and cost-efficiency of data platforms
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to support production systems and respond to incidents
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and product engineers to deliver reliable data solutions
• Implement observability and monitoring for pipelines, ensuring timely detection and resolution of issues

Job requirements

Your profile:

• 3–5 years of experience as a Data Engineer or similar role
• Strong experience with AWS services (e.g., S3, Glue, Lambda, RDS, EMR, Redshift, or DynamoDB)
• Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code
• Practical knowledge of Apache Airflow for workflow orchestration
• Experience working with Kubernetes and deploying workloads in EKS
• Proficiency in Python and SQL
• Solid understanding of data modeling, data warehousing, and distributed systems
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control (Git)
• Comfortable with production support and on-call responsibilities

Nice to Have:

• Familiarity with streaming platforms (Kafka, Kinesis, etc.).
• Knowledge of monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or CloudWatch).
• Experience with data governance, quality frameworks, or security best practices.
• Exposure to big data frameworks (Spark, Flink, etc.).

What we can offer you:

Diversity - proud to be an equal opportunity workplace where we aim to enable everyone to show up as their full selves. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and to being a safe space regardless of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender, gender identity or gender expression.

Development - strong support for your professional development, backed-up by a feedback culture to help you identify your strengths and opportunities.

Wellbeing - we believe mental health is as important as being fit. That's why we're giving you free access to nilo.health, a mental health app. In terms of physical training, other than our awesome gym in the office, we also cover part of the subscription to the Urban Sports Club. We can also offer you a corporate pension scheme so you don't have to worry about your retirement.

Sustainability - together with our Green team, we offer you the opportunity to engage in projects that promote sustainability, environmental development and the impact that we make on our planet.

Flexibility - at the moment, we offer a hybrid setup, and the option of working from abroad. We offer 28 days of holiday, additionally, you get an extra day for each calendar year (up to 30 days) and other occasions (moving, working on a social project, etc).

Modern office - Zen Rooms where employees can pray, relax or simply have some quiet time; fully equipped gym in the office, and a roof terrace for amazing social events.

Free lunch – whenever you’re at the office, we offer you different lunch options – and it’s all on us! Enjoy your lunch at a nearby restaurant that partners with us! Hot and cold drinks, fruit, regular varied and healthy breakfasts and other snacks at the office are, of course, always available for free for our employees.

Social Culture – which encourages people to start conversations, build relationships and participate together in the community through regular team events.

Visa Sponsorship – we provide visa sponsorship for those of you who are eager to join us from outside of Germany.If you think you could fit the bill, we'd love to hear from you!

You can check out our bonialpeople Instagram or read more about bonial culture and tech on Medium.