Starling Bank

Data Platform Engineer

Starling Bank

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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Tech Stack

AWSBigQueryCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKafkaKubernetesLinuxPythonSQLTerraform

About the role

  • Building for Scale: You will lead the design and implementation of our cloud-native Warehouse and Machine Learning platforms, ensuring they are robust, secure, and scalable.
  • Mastering the Orchestration: You’ll dive deep into Kubernetes, leveraging Operators and Helm to automate complex data workflows and platform management. Building out kube native data and AI architecture.
  • Bridging the Clouds: You will improve our existing tooling and implement new, seamless integrations between our AWS and GCP environments.
  • Defining our State: You’ll use Terraform to manage and define our entire data infrastructure through code, ensuring reproducibility and transparency across the stack.

Requirements

  • K8s Expertise: You have a solid understanding and practical experience with Kubernetes, specifically working with Operators and Helm to manage complex application lifecycles.
  • The Engineer's Mindset: You are proficient in Python or Java and enjoy writing clean, efficient code to solve infrastructure challenges.
  • Cloud Native: You are comfortable working in at least one of the major cloud providers (AWS or GCP) and understand how to get the best out of their managed services.
  • Optimising and refine: current data infrastructure, and deploying greenfield kube native OSS projects
  • **Bonus points if you have:**
  • Experience with SQL-based transformation workflows, specifically using dbt within BigQuery.
  • Familiarity with streaming and ingestion tech like Kafka or Debezium.
  • A background in Linux administration or data management best practices.
Benefits
  • 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)
  • An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
  • Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
  • 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
  • Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
  • Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection
  • Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
  • Generous family-friendly policies
  • Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
  • Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing
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Hard Skills & Tools
KubernetesOperatorsHelmPythonJavaTerraformSQLdbtBigQueryKafka
Soft Skills
problem-solvingclean codinginfrastructure management