Data Engineer

Planet A Ventures

full-time

Posted on: 9/24/2025

Origin: • 🇩🇪 Germany

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About the role

Design, build, and maintain data pipelines and ETL processes
Develop automations to reduce friction and speed up workflows
Integrate data into everyday team processes, helping colleagues bridge cultural and knowledge gaps
Collaborate closely with stakeholders to gather requirements, flesh out plans, and deliver end-to-end solutions
Make strategic decisions about architecture, tools, and integrations (buy vs. build)
Ensure stability and scalability while fostering adoption across the company
Play a pivotal role in unlocking data for the team, building automations, and helping integrate data into processes and culture
Blend of hands-on technical work (70%) and process-oriented, customer-facing collaboration (30%)

Strong background in data engineering (pipelines, ETL, data modeling)
Experience with ML / NLP, ideally with exposure to AI / LLM applications
Python proficiency and comfort working with APIs and system integrations
Familiarity with tools like Snowflake, Pipedream, AWS
Understanding of process modeling and how data connects to business needs
Excellent communication skills in English, with the ability to translate technical solutions into business value
Cloud-native data processing experience with AWS services (S3, etc.)
Workflow orchestration experience (Dagster, Airflow, Prefect, or similar)
Experience with deploying and scaling ML/LLM workloads
Ability to design reproducible environments with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and restart-resilient workflows
Skilled at building data accessibility layers for non-technical teams (dashboards, APIs, Airtable/Snowflake integrations)
Being Berlin-based (a plus)
German language skills (written and spoken) (a plus)
Familiarity with investment environments (VC, PE, or similar) (a plus)
Exposure to start-up, VC, or other high-growth environments is a plus