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About the Role

ZMS is Zalando's advertising and marketing platform for merchants and brands. Join us to help drive the development of a platform that strives to inspire, engage, and inform Zalando shoppers through highly relevant advertising experiences, seamlessly supporting our customers’ shopping journeys by empowering partners to promote their brands, stories, and products. You will work on the service that powers campaign creation decisions for thousands of merchants across multiple markets, a critical system that directly influences how marketing campaigns are built and executed. You'll build and maintain data solutions using our modern tech stack. The current solution relies on Databricks for data processing, Delta Lake, and Postgres, with Airflow as an orchestrator. Your work will directly impact the quality of decisions made by our partners and internal teams.

Responsibilities

Design and implement the systems that power campaign decisions for thousands of merchants.
Take end-to-end responsibility for projects in a cross-functional team and iterate quickly during the product development cycle.
Communicate and collaborate effectively with business stakeholders, product managers, and engineering peers.
Lead data engineering competency development in the Marketing platform.
Share knowledge with colleagues and help them grow their technical skills.
Evaluate and implement leading-edge technologies and optimise platform performance to ensure our platform remains ahead of the curve.

Requirements

5–7 years of professional experience in data engineering.
Deep knowledge of distributed data processing (Databricks/Spark preferred), performance tuning, and building observability and health checks for data pipelines.
Practical experience optimizing and tuning databases or storage engines.
Strong coding skills in any general-purpose language (e.g. Python / C / C++ / Java / Scala / GoLang / Rust ) and SQL skills focused on data transformation performance.
Proven track record of designing, building, maintaining and evolving data models and data processing systems.
A passion for knowledge sharing and a desire to mentor team members on best practices, code quality and engineering excellence.
Experience with cloud delivery models and Kubernetes (K8s).
Hands-on experience with tools like dbt, Databricks, Postgres, Airflow, Dash0.
Experience or knowledge in designing and developing APIs.
Experience working with real-time streaming pipelines or messaging queue (micro-services).
Experience managing production data systems, including handling SLAs, incident response, and on-call rotations.

Skills

Databricks
Spark
Postgres
Airflow
Python
C
C++
Java
Scala
GoLang
Rust
SQL
Kubernetes (K8s)
dbt
Dash0
API Design
Streaming
Messaging

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid
Remote
Full-time

Experience Level

Mid-level
Senior

Benefits

Employee shares program
40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Zalando Lounge, discounts from external partners
2 paid volunteering days a year
Hybrid working model, with flexible hours and up to 60% remote per week
Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year
27 days of vacation a year
Relocation assistance available
Family services, including counselling and support
Health and wellbeing options (including Gympass)
Mental health support and coaching available

About the Company

Zalando is Europe's leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle, connecting customers, brands, and partners across 25 markets.
Zalando Marketing Services (ZMS) is the 360° marketing unit of Zalando, working with the world’s largest fashion and lifestyle brands.
ZMS provides impactful solutions across all marketing touchpoints, access to relevant audiences, in-depth data knowledge, and inspiring creation and content.
ZMS creates meaningful connections between brands and consumers through a deep understanding of their personalities.
ZMS works with brands, agencies and publishers from fashion and beyond to produce innovative, impactful campaigns that reach the right audience at the right moment.
ZMS utilizes a holistic mix of cutting-edge and privacy compliant technology, in-depth audience insights, expansive reach and compelling content to help brands produce successful campaigns across multiple digital marketing channels.

Equal Opportunity

At Zalando, our vision is to be the starting point for fashion - one that is inclusive by design.
We only assess candidates based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.
We welcome applications from people of all gender identities, sexual orientations, personal expressions, racial identities, ethnicities, religious beliefs, and disability statuses.
Please avoid including your picture, age, and marital status in your CV.
We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Please feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need, so we can best support and assist you throughout the hiring process.
do.BETTER - our diversity & inclusion strategy: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/diversity-inclusion
Our employee resource groups: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/diversity-inclusion/our-employee-resource-groups