Big Data Infrastructure Engineer (Apache Iceberg)

Location: Remote from Kazakhstan, Georgia, Serbia, or Poland; working hours must align with GMT+3, with up to a 3-hour difference.

Company

hirify.global is a global travel-tech company developing online booking platforms and travel products for tourists, travel agents, and business travel companies.

What you will do

• Own and technically lead the big data infrastructure for the international platform contour.
• Deploy, upgrade, and operate HDFS, Apache Ozone, Iceberg, and other core platform services.
• Support an infrastructure pilot that transforms a small number of large datasets into thousands of small tables.
• Introduce compute and storage quotas for business units and migrate from the default Iceberg catalog to Lakekeeper or Gravitino.
• Rebuild monitoring and alerting so infrastructure alerts provide actionable information.
• Share solutions with a parallel-contour engineer and provide mutual coverage.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience designing, deploying, and operating big data platforms.
• Hands-on experience deploying, upgrading, and troubleshooting HDFS and Hadoop.
• Hands-on experience operating S3-compatible object storage; Apache Ozone, MinIO, or similar solutions.
• Experience with Apache Iceberg and monitoring and alerting for data infrastructure.
• English at B2 level required.
• Ability to work in the GMT+3 time zone, with up to a 3-hour difference.

Nice to have

• Experience with Trino, Kafka, or Flink.
• Experience with Iceberg REST catalogs such as Lakekeeper, Gravitino, Polaris, or similar tools.
• Experience with resource quotas and cost allocation in multi-tenant data platforms.
• Hands-on use of AI tools such as Copilot or agents.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible schedules and remote work.
• Structured onboarding, a personal development plan, and internal lectures and demos.
• Training programs covering adaptation, soft skills, and leadership development.
• Partial compensation for external training and conferences.
• Corporate English lessons, speaking clubs, hotel and travel discounts, and an additional paid MyTime Day Off.