data engineer for digital media

Axel Springer is a leading digital publisher and global media and technology company headquartered in Berlin. Its brands reach millions of users worldwide, while its National Media & Tech division develops technology that supports digital journalism. The company focuses on artificial intelligence and forward-looking technologies for the media industry.

• Own data products end-to-end, from building pipelines to responding to incidents and improving reliability;
• Build, test, and reason about data transforms and services that run the business;
• Build data-quality checks, lineage, and freshness into data engineering workflows;
• Design schemas that handle late and messy data and reflect business questions;
• Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and product managers to define data models, contracts, and interfaces;
• Mentor mid-level and junior data engineers through code review, design feedback, and shared standards;
• Tune transforms and pipelines for reliability and efficiency, and reduce operational toil over time.

• Degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field; equivalent expertise demonstrated through experience and impact is equally valued;
• Senior-level experience delivering and operating data products or backend systems end-to-end in a cloud environment such as AWS, GCP, or Azure;
• Deep understanding of data modeling, schema evolution, incremental and idempotent processing, and late and dirty data handling;
• Strong Python skills and the ability to write clean, well-tested, maintainable code;
• Ability to pick up Go or other tools as needed;
• Experience applying quality checks, lineage, and freshness to keep real data products reliable;
• Sound judgment on tools and trade-offs, with the ability to defend technical choices;
• Effective communication with non-engineers;
• Ownership mindset and experience mentoring data engineers across different seniority levels.

• Trainings, learning lunches, tech conferences, and a budget for workshops;
• Free breakfast snacks and lunch in company canteens;
• Flexible working hours;
• 30 Days of vacation plus 10 days working from abroad;
• Choice of office equipment, including equipment for remote work and private use;
• 80% Office presence and 20% mobile working;
• Permanent full- or part-time position in a modern Berlin office.