Middle Data Engineer/ Data Lakehouse

We’re looking for a Mid Data Engineer to take ownership of our data lake — the system of record for millions of financial events every day, including bets, wallet transactions, and live odds, serving 12M+ active users. You’ll be responsible for designing and maintaining reliable data pipelines and defining how data is ingested, stored, retained, reconciled, and governed across AWS S3 and Snowflake/Databricks. Your work will ensure that Analytics, Finance, and Regulatory teams have access to accurate, consistent, and fully traceable data — with zero drift from source systems.

Location: Kraków, Poland. Hybrid — 2 days per week from the office.

What you will do:

• Own the lakehouse architecture: bronze/silver/gold layers, Iceberg/Delta tables, schema evolution.
• Land operational data via CDC streaming (Kafka, Debezium), handling late and duplicate events.
• Design data layout for speed and cost: partitioning, compaction, file sizing, query performance on Trino/Athena/Snowflake.
• Own retention and archival: storage tiering, regulatory retention, immutability, GDPR deletion.
• Guarantee correctness: freshness SLAs, drift detection, reconciliation against the source wallet and ledger systems.
• Own governance: catalog and lineage, row/column access control, PII masking, encryption, audit trails.
• Monitor ingestion health, data anomalies, and cloud storage/compute spend.

Must-have:

• 2 years of hands-on in a production lakehouse environment.
• Lakehouse architecture — bronze/silver/gold layering, an open table format (Iceberg, Delta, or Hudi), schema evolution.
• Data layout & query optimization at TB+ scale — partitioning, compaction, file sizing, query performance on Trino/Athena/Snowflake.
• Cloud lakehouse/DWH in production — Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery.
• CDC & streaming ingestion — Kafka + Debezium or equivalent; late, duplicate, and out-of-order events.
• Strong SQL and data modeling — enough relational grounding to reason about the OLTP systems you capture from. Critical for financial ledgers.
• Correctness — freshness SLAs, drift detection, reconciliation against source wallet/ledger systems.
• Governance — catalogs, lineage, row/column access control, PII masking, retention, GDPR deletion.
• Cloud object storage — S3 or GCS, plus storage tiering and archival.
• Python and an orchestrator — Airflow or Dagster, as tools.