Senior Software Engineer (Data Platform)

Senior Software Engineer (Data Platform)
Who we are
At The Stepstone Group, we have a simple yet very important mission: The right job for everyone. Using our data, platform, and technology, we create opportunities for job seekers and companies around the world to find a perfect match, in a fair and equitable way. With over 20 brands across 30+ countries, we strive for fair and unbiased hiring.
At our Tech Hub, located near Wilanowska Metro, we are here as more than 300 ambitious specialists who work on the development of our IT products. We are proud to be part of The Stepstone Group, a global expert in job-tech platforms and e-recruiting.
Join our team of 3,000+ employees and be part of reshaping the labour market and becoming the world’s leading job-tech platform.
The job at a glance

Join our team and take your impact beyond a single team or product. We’re looking for an experienced engineer who wants to help shape the future of our Data Platform, influence technical decisions at scale and drive best practices across the organisation.
Working in the Data Platform department, you'll help build scalable, reliable and well-governed platform capabilities that support analytics, AI and business-critical products, while collaborating closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers and Enterprise Architects.
This is a unique opportunity for senior engineers looking to expand their technical influence, work on high-impact architectural challenges and help shape how engineering is done across multiple teams.
This is so important to us. By joining our team, you will be playing a vital role as together we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everybody.
Your responsibilities
– Define and evolve the technical vision, roadmap and architecture of the Data Platform, driving key decisions across data, platform and infrastructure domains.
– Establish engineering standards, best practices and reusable patterns while partnering with Enterprise Architecture and influencing technical direction across teams.
– Drive engineering excellence by improving code quality, testing, observability, reliability, operational practices and AI-assisted development.
– Support end-to-end delivery by guiding teams through complex technical challenges, improving decision-making and contributing to planning and risk management.
– Mentor engineers, strengthen technical capabilities across the organisation and champion automation and modern engineering practices.
Your skills and qualifications
– Experience as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer or a Senior Engineer operating at a broader technical leadership level, with a track record of influencing engineering direction beyond a single team.
– Strong background in data platforms, distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, with experience shaping technical direction across teams and stakeholders.
– Solid expertise in relevant technologies such as AWS, Terraform, Kafka/MSK, Airflow, Glue or Spark, and building scalable data solutions.
– Experience with modern data ecosystems including data lakes/lakehouse architectures, Iceberg or similar table formats, as well as batch and streaming processing.
– Knowledge of data quality, governance, cataloguing and observability tools (e.g. Datadog), with DBT or AI-assisted engineering practices as a plus.
Your benefits
We’re a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when you’re with us. Because your job shouldn’t take over your life, it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer:
– Premium medical and dental care
– Life insurance
– Flex Benefits - Worksmile Cafeteria System (Multisport, vouchers, tickets etc.)
– Employee Referral Program
– Hackathons, Knowledge Sharing Hours, In-house projects
– Tech and sport communities
– Events and integration parties
– Charity initiatives, 2 extra volunteer days
– English/German classes
– Game room and chillout zone
Our commitment
Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.