Senior Platform Engineer, Data Enablement

About the Position

Pandora reaches millions of people across more than 100 countries, and every one of those touchpoints depends on data flowing cleanly from source systems into a governed, trusted foundation. In Pandora, the data foundation is a culmination of collaboration between the Data & Analytics (D&A) department and the Foundation Platforms department.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, Data Enablement, you will design, provision, and harden the data storage and governance infrastructure that accelerates Pandora’s new data strategy. This is a high-impact, high-ownership role for an engineer who takes pride in building infrastructure that other engineers can trust and build on without thinking twice.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and evolve the data storage and governance infrastructure that D&A’s Ingestion Layer and Domain Layer are built on, as code, across environments.
• Own operational administration of Unity Catalog for both layers: metastore configuration, workspace binding, and access policies.
• Build platform-wide monitoring, observability, and alerting for both layers to catch issues before they reach downstream teams.
• Automate environment provisioning and configuration for predictable and safe setup of new source connections and domain workspaces.
• Troubleshoot data infrastructure-level incidents.
• Partner with engineers building ingestion pipelines and domain models to ensure the infrastructure keeps up with their needs.
• Act as a technical reference point on infrastructure architecture, contributing to design discussions, raising engineering standards, and mentoring engineers.
• Drive engineering excellence through CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, and DevOps practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineer supporting cloud data platforms.
• Deep hands-on knowledge and experience administering Unity Catalog.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform or comparable Infrastructure as Code tooling, applied at platform scale.
• Experience with Azure cloud services.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including clean code, testability, modularity, and version control.
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform tooling.
• Experience implementing monitoring, observability, and alerting for distributed or cloud systems.
• Proficiency in Python and/or Shell scripting for automation.
• Ability to contribute to architectural discussions and influence technical direction.
• Experience mentoring peers or leading technical work within a team.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to engage confidently with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Fluent English, written and spoken.

Nice to Have

We do not expect all of these, but experience in any of the following would be a bonus:

• Apache Kafka
• OpenMetadata or comparable data catalogs
• Data contracts
• Change Data Capture (CDC)
• SAP integrations
• Kubernetes or container orchestration
• Cloud cost optimisation / FinOps for data platforms

We Offer

• Paid Vacation
• Sick Days
• Floating Holidays
• Sport/Insurance Compensation
• English Classes
• Charity
• Training Compensation

About the Company

Pandora reaches millions of people across more than 100 countries, and every one of those touchpoints depends on data flowing cleanly from source systems into a governed, trusted foundation. In Pandora, the data foundation is a culmination of collaboration between the Data & Analytics (D&A) department and the Foundation Platforms department.