Senior Data Platform Engineer
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Data engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- We're looking for an engineer who thinks in data systems, not only in databases. You've spent enough years designing and operating data platforms that you have opinions about how to model evolving dat
- You're motivated by impact, and by getting design decisions right early, when they matter most. You're at your best when the schema isn't going to sit still, and you think about how your choices trans
Nice to have
- Time-series storage at scale
- Experience with telemetry, IoT sensor data, or any system producing high-rate machine-emitted data over long time horizons.
- Experience with schema versioning and managing structured data formats across evolving systems.
- Background processing media (video, image) alongside structured data in the same platform.
Full description
About Six Robotics
At Six Robotics, we build intelligent software that gives Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) the ability to collaborate, adapt on the fly, and execute missions that were previously impossible. From our base in Oslo, our 70+ experts in defence, software, and AI develop our flagship autonomy and swarm platform used by both government and industry. In close partnership with the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), we move fast from concept to live deployment, often in the field alongside end users.
We work with advanced hardware and software, a modern tech stack, and missions that demand both technical mastery and operational discipline. Everyone is close to the action, from deep technical problem-solving to field operations. We move fast and value clarity, integrity, and teamwork in everything we do.
At Six Robotics, every person executes with precision, adapts to changing conditions, and strengthens the team. Getting in is hard, and you’ll be challenged every day. But if you have the skill, the discipline, and the drive to push your limits and always be sharpening your blade, you’ll find no better place to deliver real-world impact while collaborating and learning from the best in the field.
About The Role
Six Robotics' drones produce a lot of data: flight telemetry, logs, and media. We're building the cloud platform that catches that data, and this role is at the centre of what happens to it once it's landed. How it's modelled, how it's stored, how it evolves as our software keeps changing, and how the dashboard and other downstream consumers actually read it. Once it's in place, engineers and customers alike will be able to understand what happened on a flight, debug failures, learn from every mission, and operate with confidence. It's a meaningful step up in what we offer, on top of a product that already works.
Drone telemetry is time-series, dense, and high-rate, and the shape of it will change over time as the upstream GCS software evolves. Logs are semi-structured. We need someone who can design a storage layer that handles all of this, knowing the schema will not stand still. It's a greenfield project, and we want it to deliver value early, both internally so we can learn and improve faster, and as something we can put in front of customers. The early calls (data model, storage choices, schema evolution strategy, the read interfaces downstream consumers will depend on) will be made as a team, and we're hiring you to bring strong, justified opinions into those conversations. You'll work closely with the Cloud Engineer who joins alongside you and drives the data upload pipeline. Your role revolves around what happens after it lands.
What You Will Do
- Design the data model for flight data: telemetry, logs, and media.
- Build the schema evolution strategy. The GCS software in the field will drift across versions; the cloud has to cope without breaking old data.