Currency

👉 Lead GCP Data Engineer, Architect

7 382 - 11 039 USDNet per month - B2B
5 519 - 8 693 USDGross per month - Permanent
Data

👉 Lead GCP Data Engineer, Architect

Data

Jana z Kolna 11, Gdańsk +2 Locations

Xebia sp. z o.o.

Full-time
B2B, Permanent
Senior
Remote
7 382 - 11 039 USD
Net per month - B2B
5 519 - 8 693 USD
Gross per month - Permanent

Tech stack

    English

    C1

    Airflow

    advanced

    ETL/ELT

    advanced

    Python/Scala

    advanced

    GCP

    advanced

    GKE

    regular

Job description

🟣 You will be:


  • designing, building and optimizing the data ingestion pipeline to reliably deliver billions of events daily in defined SLA,

  • leading initiatives to improve scalability, performance and reliability,

  • providing support for all product teams in building and optimizing their complex pipelines,

  • identifying and addressing pain points in the existing data platform; proposing and implementing high-leverage improvements,

  • developing new tools and frameworks to streamline the data platform workflows,

  • driving adoption of best practices in data and software engineering (testing, CI/CD, version control, monitoring),

  • working in close collaboration with data scientists and data analysts to help support their work in production,

  • supporting production ML workflows and real-time streaming use cases,

  • mentoring other engineers and contributing to a culture of technical excellence and knowledge sharing.



🟣 Your profile:


  • 6+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering and large-scale distributed systems,

  • proven expertise in building and maintaining complex ETL/ELT pipelines,

  • deep knowledge of orchestration frameworks (Airflow) and workflow optimization,

  • strong GCP cloud infrastructure experience,

  • GKE experience,

  • expert-level programming in Python or Scala,

  • solid understanding of Spark internals,

  • experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and infrastructure as code,

  • familiarity with managing self-hosted tools like Spark or Airflow on Kubernetes,

  • experience managing data warehouse in BigQuery,

  • strong communication skills and a proactive, problem-solving mindset,

  • very good command of English (min. C1).


Work from the European Union region and a work permit are required.

Candidates must have an active VAT status in the EU VIES registry: https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/



🟣 Nice to have:


  • working experience with messaging systems like Kafka, Redpanda,

  • experience with real-time data streaming platforms (e.g., Flink, Spark Structured Streaming),

  • familiarity with ML platforms or MLOps workflows,

  • familiarity with Kubeflow, Valido, Looker, Looker Studio.


🟣 Recruitment Process:

CV review – HR call – Interview (with Live-coding) – Client Interview (with Live-coding) – Hiring Manager Interview – Decision



🎁 Benefits 🎁


Development:

  • development budgets of up to 6,800 PLN,

  • we fund certifications e.g.: AWS, Azure,

  • access to Udemy, O'Reilly (formerly Safari Books Online) and more,

  • events and technology conferences,

  • technology Guilds,

  • internal training,

  • Xebia Upskill.


🩺 We take care of your health:

  • private medical healthcare,

  • multiSport card - we subsidise a MultiSport card,

  • mental Health Support.


🤸‍♂️ We are flexible:

  • B2B or employment contract,

  • contract for an indefinite period.

Tech stack

    English

    C1

    Airflow

    advanced

    ETL/ELT

    advanced

    Python/Scala

    advanced

    GCP

    advanced

    GKE

    regular

Office location

Published: 12.11.2025

About the company

Xebia sp. z o.o.

While Xebia is a global tech company, our journey in CEE started with two Polish companies – PGS Software, known for world-class cloud and software solutions, and GetInData, a pioneer in Big Data. Today, in Poland, we’re...

Company profile

👉 Lead GCP Data Engineer, Architect

7 382 - 11 039 USDNet per month - B2B
Summary of the offer

👉 Lead GCP Data Engineer, Architect

Jana z Kolna 11, Gdańsk

Xebia sp. z o.o.

7 382 - 11 039 USDNet per month - B2B
5 519 - 8 693 USDGross per month - Permanent
By applying, I consent to the processing of my personal data for the purpose of conducting the recruitment process. The administrator of Personal Data of persons participating in recruitment processes is Xebia Sp. z o.o. with its registered office in... MoreThis site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.