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About the Role

The Customer Insights Engineering team at Zalando optimizes the onsite experience for over 50 million active customers by building curated data products that track customer journeys and engagement. This role involves designing, scaling, and maintaining end-to-end engineering solutions, including data pipelines, data products, and platform infrastructure, to accelerate the transformation of raw data into actionable insights.

Responsibilities

Design and build foundational curated data products and reusable data models for analytics and data practitioners.
Develop infrastructure and tooling to enable teams to query data, develop, and deploy pipelines reliably and automatically.
Champion operational excellence by building and maintaining observability, health checks, and automated reliability tooling for core data systems.
Establish frameworks and engineering best practices for technical rigor, modular architecture, and speed to insights.
Collaborate with infrastructure, data, and security teams to ensure data systems are secure, compliant, and production-grade.

Requirements

3+ years of experience in Data Engineering with a focus on Python and Apache Spark.
Expert-level skills in writing, profiling, and optimizing complex SQL queries.
Strong foundation in data modeling and designing scalable, resilient end-to-end data architectures.
Hands-on experience architecting data assets on AWS utilizing Databricks (including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and cost-optimization strategies).
Proven track record of deploying production-grade systems using Apache Airflow and automated CI/CD pipelines.
Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Skills

Python
Apache Spark
SQL
Data Modeling
Data Architecture
AWS
Databricks
Delta Lake
Unity Catalog
Apache Airflow
CI/CD
Agentic Data Engineering (Bonus)

Location

Remote

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

3+ years

Benefits

27 days of holiday per year, increasing annually up to 30 days.
2 paid volunteering days per year.
Employee shares program.
40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando.
30% off Lounge by Zalando.
Discounts from external partners.
Relocation assistance available.
Family services, including counseling and support.
Health and wellbeing options (including Wellhub).
Mental health support and coaching.
Training platform access.
Biannual peer-to-peer review.

About the Company

Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion, connecting customers, brands and partners across 23 markets.
We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research.
We reach over 52 million active customers.

Equal Opportunity

We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.
All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.