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Senior Data & Backend Software Engineer (f/m/d)
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Germany
Experience
Senior · 6+ years
Job description
Design, build and operate data platforms and backend services that ingest, process and serve large volumes of engineering and flight data.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · Germany
- Languages
- English
What you'll do
- Build modern, scalable, high-performance solutions for the engineering and operations platform
- Define data ingestion, processing, storage and access patterns for reliability and scalability
- Develop data services, APIs, pipelines and data products for engineers, analysts and stakeholders
- Design and implement ETL/ELT processes to ingest and transform data from many sources
- Contribute to data architecture, modeling and storage decisions
- Ensure data quality and integrity through validation, monitoring and governance
- Provide observability and monitoring of platform components
- Author and maintain architectural documentation, technical specifications and user documentation
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data needs
- Mentor less experienced engineers and promote engineering best practices
What we're looking for
- Degree in software engineering, computer science, data science or similar
- At least 6 years of hands-on experience in C#, Java, Rust or Python
- Strong experience with batch and streaming data processing
- Understanding of time-series data concepts such as sampling rates, decimation and frequency-domain analysis
- Practical experience optimizing native and DataFrame-based data processing
- Skills in querying, transforming and optimizing large-scale datasets
- Understanding of Lakehouse, Data Warehouse and Medallion Architecture patterns
- Hands-on experience with Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg
- Experience with Apache Kafka and event-driven architectures
- Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Databricks or Snowflake
- Strong understanding of software engineering principles including maintainability, testing and automation
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking concepts and platform operations
- Experience with Protobuf encoding and columnar file formats
- Experience with observability, monitoring and telemetry solutions
- Experience with OLAP databases and/or TSDBs such as ClickHouse, Apache Druid or InfluxDB
- Ability to communicate technical concepts and collaborate across disciplines
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale engineering, manufacturing or telemetry datasets
- Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code
- Experience with stream processing frameworks like Apache Flink
Your team
Data and Analytics
Team building the systems that ingest, process, store and serve data at scale.
Benefits
- Virtual company share program
- 30 days of vacation
- Company pension plan with 20% employer contribution after probation
- Subsidised lunch every day
- Fully financed Deutschlandticket
- Rental clothing with laundry service
- Sponsored sports club memberships (EGYM Wellpass)
- Individual learning allowance after probation
- Childcare allowance for non-school-age children
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About Isar Aerospace
At the forefront of New Space building a modern space business
Fast-growing company providing sustainable launch solutions for small and medium-sized satellites into Low Earth Orbit.
Mission
Help democratise space and use it for good to improve life on Earth
Key facts
- Space / aerospace
- Privately funded by world-leading technology investors
- Team of driven and talented people passionate about space innovation
- Making rockets in a way that hasn't been done before
What they value
- Democratise space and use it for good
- Sustainable and environmentally friendly launch solutions
- Fairness and inclusivity as an equal-opportunity employer