We're partnering with an international technology consultancy to hire a Senior Data Engineer for one of the world's leading travel tech platforms. You'll join the team behind a data platform that processes 3.6B+ domain events and ~11.5 TB of data every day, in real time, powering products used by millions of travelers worldwide.

The team

- Senior, international engineering team working in English
- Embedded directly in the client's tech organization, with real say in architecture
- Agile environment with a strong culture of ownership and continuous improvement

The role

A hands-on senior seat on a platform where scale is the daily challenge. You'll work across the full data lifecycle (capture, ingestion, processing, enrichment, storage and distribution), building real-time distributed systems that are scalable, resilient and highly available. You'll write clean, tested code, optimize performance, own monitoring and reliability, and document and influence architectural decisions.

Stack

Python / Scala, Apache Spark, Kafka, Kinesis, Airflow, Hive, EMR, AWS,



Docker, SQL and NoSQL databases.

We're looking for

- 5+ years of experience in data engineering with Python (Scala is a plus, and you can learn it on the job)
- Strong hands-on experience with Spark or PySpark in production
- Real-time data experience (streaming or micro-batch), ideally with Kafka
- Production experience on AWS
- Strong SQL, with both relational and non-relational databases
- An engineering mindset: architecture, testing, performance, observability
- Fluent English

Nice to have: Scala, Kubernetes, Terraform, Databricks or Flink; experience in travel, e-commerce, fintech or other high-traffic platforms.

Why join: billions of events a day, a modern stack, senior colleagues, high ownership from day one, up to €75K.

Madrid · Hybrid (3 days onsite) · Full-time

This is a chance to own a critical piece of one of the largest data platforms in travel.

📌 Data Engineer | Senior (Madrid)
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📍 Madrid