Medior Data Engineer (Databricks & Lakehouse Platform)

Location: Hybrid in Nootdorp, Netherlands; flexible working hours and the ability to work from home in accordance with manager approval and corporate policies.

Company

hirify.global is a global geo-data company building a modern cloud-based lakehouse platform on Databricks to provide governed data at scale.

What you will do

• Engage with stakeholders to understand business challenges and translate requirements into data solutions and products.
• Design, build, and maintain cloud-native batch and streaming pipelines on Databricks using Lakeflow, Delta Lake, and orchestration tools.
• Implement bronze, silver, and gold medallion architecture to deliver trustworthy and performant datasets.
• Develop transformations with PySpark and Spark SQL, and standardize reusable engineering patterns.
• Own data quality, observability, monitoring, alerting, operational reliability, and runbooks.
• Collaborate with platform, analytics, engineering, data science, and domain teams to deliver production-ready data products.

Requirements

• 3–6 years of experience in data engineering or equivalent experience delivering production-grade cloud pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Spark on Databricks.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.
• Experience building reliable batch and/or streaming data pipelines.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including cloud storage and security concepts.
• Knowledge of lakehouse principles, Delta Lake, incremental processing, data governance, ingestion patterns, and data contracts.

Nice to have

• Experience with Unity Catalog, including governed access, documentation, permissions, and lineage.
• Experience balancing reliability, performance, and cost in data engineering solutions.

Culture & Benefits

• 29 holidays per year for full-time employment, with the possibility to purchase 12 additional days.
• Career and training opportunities nationally and internationally.
• Commuting allowance, modern pension scheme, and collective health insurance.
• Corporate fitness plan and coaching through the Employee Assistance Program.

Hiring process

• Automated application confirmation followed by a first interview when there is a match.
• Successful candidates proceed to a second interview.
• An offer may follow a successful second interview.