Senior Data Engineer

SIXT

Senior Data Engineer developing automation of data pipelines for SIXT Data shop product. Collaborating with Data Engineers, BI Analysts, and Data Scientists while ensuring data integrity and security.

Posted 5/9/2026full-timeRemote • 🇵🇹 PortugalSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowAmazon RedshiftApacheAWSCloudDistributed SystemsEC2JenkinsPythonSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You develop the end-to-end automation of data pipelines to make ingestion, transformation, and distribution of data more efficient and self-service for our users
You explore and learn the latest AWS and big data technologies to uncover hidden use-cases, enable new capabilities, and build new integrations for our SIXT Data shop product
You interact with Data Engineers, BI Analysts and Data Scientists to find the best solutions for different analytical use cases (Dashboarding, ad hoc Analytics, Data-as-a-product, Machine Learning)
You contribute to the Data Platform vision and execution with experience, new ideas, and your own curiosity
You show extreme work ethics and integrity to deal with sensitive data while protecting our end-customer

Requirements

What you’ll need

You hold a bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related fields preferred
You have got experience with combined Data Lake and Data Warehouse architectures and automation from data sources to analytical dashboards with ELT
You are experienced in analytical cloud datawarehouses (Redshift, Snowflake) & you know how to create transformed data models (dbt) and to automate interdependent jobs (Apache Airflow)
You are experienced in working with AWS services in CLI and Console (S3, EC2, EMR, Lambda, Kinesis, IAM...) and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
You work with engineering best practices across the development lifecycle, including agile methodologies, code reviews, source management (GitHub), deployment processes (Jenkins), testing, operations, etc. and you also have got an understanding of data management fundamentals, distributed systems, and data storage/compute principles
Knowing Python and SQL is a must

Benefits

Comp & perks

Enjoy 28 days of vacation, an additional day off for your birthday, and 1 volunteer day per year
Benefit from a hybrid working model, flexible working hours, and no dress code
Access discounts on SIXT rent, share, ride, and SIXT+, along with partner discounts
Participate in training programs, external conferences, and internal dev & tech talks designed for your personal growth and development
Private health insurance to support your well-being
Enjoy the Coverflex advantage system to enhance your employee experience

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Hard Skills & Tools

data pipelinesdata ingestiondata transformationdata distributionELTdata modelingautomationPythonSQLmachine learning

Soft Skills

work ethicsintegritycuriosity