Senior Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer at Flightradar24 (flight-tracking service) in Stockholm: design and run data ingestion, streaming/batch event processing, and cloud data platforms, primarily on AWS (Kafka/MSK, Spark/Glue, Airflow, Athena, Lambda) with SQL/NoSQL stores. On-site in Stockholm; relocation not offered.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Stockholms län, Sweden
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Data engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Able to work from the Stockholm, Sweden office
- Experience with data engineering architectures for ingestion and transformation
- Several years of hands-on experience building and operating production systems
- Experience with cloud-based platforms, preferably AWS
- Solid understanding of databases (warehouses, OLTP/OLAP concepts, query performance)
- Experience with event-driven or streaming architectures (Kafka or similar)
- Strong understanding of reliability, observability, and production operations
- Self-driven and comfortable making technical decisions independently
- Can quickly understand and work within an existing codebase and architecture
- Values clean code, testing, automation, and pragmatic engineering practices
- Communicates clearly and professionally in English
Full description
Flightradar24 is one of the most successful growth-stage tech companies in Stockholm. Each month more than 50 million aviation enthusiasts visit Flightradar24 (app/website) and our Commercial services team has many of the biggest names in aviation on its customer list.
The position requires that you are able to work from our office in Stockholm, Sweden. Relocation is not offered for this role.
What you’ll do
Your responsibilities include
- Designing and improving data ingestion, streaming, and event processing (batch and real-time)
- Refactoring and enhancing existing services, pipelines, and infrastructure
- Implementing robust data collection, transformation, and storage solutions
- Operating and improving cloud-based platforms (primarily AWS)
- Improving observability, reliability, and operational tooling for production systems
- Contributing to best practices around CI/CD, testing, code quality, and documentation
- Collaborating with software engineers, data engineers, and analysts to deliver reliable data products
- Cloud & Data Platform: AWS (S3, Glue/Spark, Airflow/MWAA, Athena, MSK/Kafka, Lambda)
- Databases & Storage: SQL/NoSQL systems (e.g., MySQL/MariaDB/Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB, data lake/warehouse patterns)
- Engineering practices: Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, linting, unit tests, integration tests
About you
- Experience with data engineering architectures for ingestion and transformation
- Several years of hands‑on experience building and operating production systems
- Experience working with cloud-based platforms, preferably AWS
- Solid understanding of databases (warehouses, OLTP/OLAP concepts, query performance)
- Experience with event-driven or streaming architectures (Kafka or similar)
- Strong understanding of reliability, observability, and production operations
We also see that you...
- Are self‑driven and comfortable making technical decisions independently
- Can quickly understand and work within an existing codebase and architecture
- Value clean code, testing, automation, and pragmatic engineering practices
- Communicate clearly and professionally in English
About Flightradar24
With over 4 million daily users, Flightradar24 is the world’s most popular flight tracking service. Our app regularly tops the App Store and Google Play Travel charts. We also offer a wide range of commercial services and our customers include many of the biggest names in aviation.