Data platform engineer

We’re looking for a Staff Data Platform Engineer to join our Data team at Yoto, to help power insights and decision-making across the business. You'll set technical direction, raise the engineering bar across the data team, and shape how our data platform scales as Yoto grows. Yoto is a screen-free interactive audio platform for kids. We make carefully connected audio players that kids control, with no microphones, cameras or ads. We’re a growing team at the heart of all the decisions Yoto makes.

• Own the architecture, reliability and long-term health of Yoto's end-to-end data platform, spanning GKE-hosted infrastructure, data ingestion, orchestration and transformation
• Define and maintain the data platform roadmap, translating company strategy into a sequenced set of technical investments with clear short- and long-term trade-offs documented
• Work across data science, analytics, product and software engineering to convert business requirements into platform capabilities, and ensure the platform serves company-wide use cases
• Set and enforce standards for data governance, access controls, data quality and ownership across the platform
• Manage and develop a mid-level data engineer directly, including regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and structured growth plans, while also raising technical capability across the wider data team through code review, documentation and pairing.

• Extensive hands-on experience in data engineering or analytics engineering, with a demonstrable track record of owning platform-level systems end-to-end, not just individual pipelines
• Experience designing and operating production data platforms across cloud infrastructure, orchestration, ingestion and SQL transformation layers
• Practical experience with GCP, BigQuery, Terraform, Kubernetes, Dagster, dlt and dbt or equivalent tools with the ability to articulate transferable reasoning
• Demonstrated ability to make and document architecture decisions that involve meaningful trade-offs across multiple teams or domains
• A track record of authoring and landing technical standards across Python, SQL and infrastructure code that other engineers, analysts and data scientists adopt in their day-to-day work
• Experience defining the scope of ambiguous technical problems identifying what needs to be built and why, not just executing against an existing spec.
• Будет плюсом: Prior experience line managing an engineer, including setting objectives and running performance conversations; Familiarity with GitOps practices in a data platform context

• Salary: 80,000 90,000 based on experience
• Hybrid working
• At least1 day a week on average in our central London office.
• Take advantage of our ‘work from anywhere’ policy to work from a different location for up to 6 weeks every year.
• Summer Hours policy to use between the months of June and August.
• Receive Income Protection, covering long term sickness for up to 2 years and company sick pay that increases with length of service.
• Life Assurance cover from day one of your service.
• Workplace Pension offering up to to 3% employer contributions, following probation.
• Generous employee referral bonus scheme.
• Private Medical Insurance via Aviva, or a Wellbeing Allowance to be used for memberships, subscriptions, treatment or therapy.
• Access to 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) through WeCare.
• Bike to work scheme to promote healthier lifestyles.
• 25 days of holiday per year, plus bank holidays.
• On top of this, you also receive your birthday off, plus 1 extra day of holiday for every year worked after you hit your 2 year anniversary, up to 5 extra days.
• After 4 years of service, you are also eligible for our sabbatical policy offering up to 3 months' of unpaid sabbatical.
• Variety of family-friendly leave, including enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, fertility, pregnancy loss and carers leave.
• Unlock savings with our workplace nursery scheme, designed to support parents of preschool-aged children.
• Up to 2 volunteer days a year.
• A Book Allowance of up to 50 a year to contribute to your professional development.
• You receive your very own Yoto player and starter pack of cards!
• Regular company socials and celebrations, including our annual YotoFest!