About the job
Join the Smallpdf Team!
At Smallpdf, we pride ourselves on being pioneers in the realm of digital document solutions, empowering millions around the globe to enhance their workflows through our innovative and user-friendly tools. Our mission is to transform document management and elevate productivity for everyone.
With a diverse team of over 110 professionals hailing from 34 different nationalities, and offices in Zurich, Belgrade, and Barcelona, we’re committed to making document handling easier for over a billion users across our web, mobile, and desktop platforms. Our dedication to excellence has earned us the trust of industry leaders such as Lufthansa, UBS, and Swiss Life.
Your Role
We are on the lookout for a highly skilled Senior Data Platform Engineer to join our team, focusing on the core components of our data infrastructure. Our platform processes more than 100 million events daily and supports a vast Redshift data warehouse that underpins everything from organization-wide reporting to document analytics and A/B testing.
In this pivotal role, you will design and maintain robust ingestion pipelines, ensure optimal performance of our Redshift warehouse at scale, and deliver high-quality data for our dbt transformation layer. You will also be responsible for managing the systems that provide data back to the business.
Collaboration is key, as you will work closely with seasoned data professionals and stakeholders across the organization to extract valuable insights from complex datasets.
The ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in Redshift, Kubernetes, Python, and SQL, and be comfortable managing and owning critical applications and infrastructure. Experience in environments of similar scale and complexity will be advantageous.
What You Will Work On
- Maintain the health and performance of our Redshift and Kubernetes (EKS) clusters, foundational to our data delivery.
- Oversee the ingestion of terabytes of near-real-time events from our products, backend systems, and third-party integrations—vital for our reporting, A/B testing, and operational monitoring.
- Collaborate with both technical and non-technical team members to establish and maintain data ingestion and infrastructure for our applications.
- Own the components that drive our data applications (such as Looker and Growthbook), ensuring their reliability, scalability, and self-serve capabilities for internal users.
- Enhance the developer experience around dbt by developing tools, templates, and CI workflows.

