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Engineering Manager - Data & ML Platform(m/w/x)

Berlin
Full-timeOn-siteExperienced
AI/ML
Data Science

Leading cross-functional team building and maintaining data and ML platforms for quick commerce grocery delivery. Track record of building high-performing data or platform engineering teams required. €1000 annual L&D budget, individual coaching, 26-30 days vacation, €35 monthly mobility budget.

Requirements

  • Passion for building scalable data infrastructure, ML platforms, and strong teams
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
  • Excitement for enabling data-driven decision-making at scale
  • Demonstrated people leadership
  • Track record of building high-performing data or platform engineering teams
  • Direct experience operating data platforms at scale
  • Strong technical foundation in distributed systems, data engineering, and platform architecture
  • Proven experience with cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and Infrastructure as Code
  • Experience with ML infrastructure components
  • Experience running high-reliability data services with observability and data quality practices
  • Clear communication
  • Ability to translate technical challenges into business context
  • Experience with AI tools for development acceleration
  • Hands-on experience with ML serving frameworks and MLOps tools
  • Background in real-time streaming systems
  • Experience with data governance, privacy regulations (GDPR), and data cataloging
  • Experience with dbt Cloud or dbt Core for data transformation
  • E-commerce, marketplace, or quick commerce familiarity

Tasks

  • Build high-trust engineering environments.
  • Hire and onboard new engineers.
  • Manage engineer performance.
  • Define clear career paths for team members.
  • Provide regular, actionable feedback.
  • Foster continuous team improvement.
  • Partner with Data Science and Analytics teams.
  • Shape initiatives for a self-service Data Platform.
  • Power machine learning models.
  • Enable faster, better decision-making across teams.
  • Lead teams managing data pipelines.
  • Oversee data warehouse architecture.
  • Manage ML training infrastructure.
  • Maintain feature stores and model serving systems.
  • Shape Data & ML Platform technology strategy.
  • Lead architectural decisions and RFC discussions.
  • Champion reliability, data quality, and pragmatic engineering.
  • Prioritize customer needs in engineering.
  • Set operational excellence standards using SLIs/SLOs.
  • Implement system monitoring.
  • Manage incident response for critical data systems.
  • Lead blameless postmortems.
  • Drive continuous improvement.
  • Automate data pipelines.
  • Reduce operational overhead.
  • Build self-service capabilities for data consumers.
  • Maintain sustainable team velocity.
  • Foster an environment where the best ideas prevail.
  • Support team members and celebrate achievements.
  • Prevent team member failures.
  • Prioritize data quality and GDPR compliance.
  • Promote responsible ML practices.
  • Protect customer trust.
  • Collaborate with peer Engineering Managers.
  • Improve engineering practices.
  • Drive organization-wide data literacy.

Work Experience

  • approx. 1 - 4 years

Education

  • Bachelor's degreeOR
  • Master's degree

Languages

  • EnglishBusiness Fluent

Tools & Technologies

  • ML platforms
  • BigQuery
  • Apache Airflow
  • Kubernetes
  • GCP
  • Terraform
  • Feast
  • Claude Code
  • Kserve
  • MLflow
  • Google Pub/Sub
  • Dataflow
  • dbt Cloud
  • dbt Core

Benefits

Learning & Development

  • €1000 annual L&D budget
  • Unlimited e-learning access
  • Online German courses

Mentorship & Coaching

  • Individual coaching options

More Vacation Days

  • 26-30 days vacation

Public Transport Subsidies

  • €35 monthly mobility budget

Healthcare & Fitness

  • Urban Sports Club discount

Corporate Discounts

  • Corporate Benefits discounts
  • Future Bens discounts
  • Flink orders discount
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