Data Platform Engineer (AWS)

Location: Hybrid in Copenhagen, Denmark, with 4 days per week in the Copenhagen HQ.

Company

hirify.global is a social impact company operating across 20 countries through a marketplace app, educational tools, legislative work, and logistics initiatives to reduce food waste.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and maintain reusable data processing infrastructure and ingestion flows for the central warehouse, backend app, BI tools, personalization, product discovery, lead generation, and dynamic pricing.
• Own shared infrastructure for ML workflows, data processing, and storage, including Metaflow, Glue, AppFlow, Airflow, Lambda, Redshift, OpenSearch, RDS, and S3.
• Build self-service tooling that enables teams to deploy and operate their own pipelines independently.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Tech Leads, analytics engineers, and ML engineers across ML, Finance, Marketing, and Analytics to translate operational use cases into technical requirements.
• Automate observability metrics and data integrity tests to provide reliable, trusted data and strong governance.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with understanding of AWS Redshift internals and efficient use of S3.
• Understanding of data engineering fundamentals, including scalability, reliability, fault tolerance, and operational trade-offs.
• Solid experience designing, building, and operating production data processing solutions with Airflow, AppFlow, Metaflow, dbt, and dlt.
• Experience working with distributed systems in production, including Spark on EMR and Glue.
• Strong software engineering and systems engineering skills, with experience managing platform-level systems rather than only pipelines.
• Experience with DataOps, GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD tools including GitHub Actions and Docker, and observability tools.
• Familiarity with MLOps principles, cloud-native infrastructure, and container orchestration.

Nice to have

• Experience with streaming technologies including Kinesis, Firehose, and Flink.
• Kubernetes and Helm experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to work at a scaling social impact company focused on reducing food waste globally.
• Hybrid work setup in the Copenhagen HQ, with four days in the office.
• Focus on work-life balance, with no mandatory overtime or standard on-call duty.
• International environment with colleagues across 19 countries.
• Informal, values-driven culture within the Tech & Product organization.

Hiring process

• Submit a CV in English through the company platform.
• Applications are not accepted by email or LinkedIn direct messaging.