Senior Data Platform Engineer

*A little heads-up: With some of our team taking some well-deserved annual leave over the next couple of weeks, we may not get around to carefully reviewing all applications until the new year. Every application gets reviewed by a real human, and we’ll be in touch to let you know either way—whether it’s a yes or, sadly, a no this time round. Thanks for your patience and understanding!*

Help us use technology to make a big green dent in the universe!

Kraken powers some of the most innovative global developments in energy.

We’re a technology company focused on creating a smart, sustainable energy system. From optimising renewable generation, creating a more intelligent grid and enabling utilities to provide excellent customer experiences, our operating system for energy is transforming the industry around the world in a way that benefits everyone.

It’s a really exciting time in energy. Help us make a real impact on shaping a better, more sustainable future.

KrakenFlex

The energy industry is undergoing the largest transformation since industrialisation at an unprecedented rate of change and we are positioning ourselves to be at the heart of that change. 

Our aim is to be the leading global provider of solutions that enable customers to release £30bn of value per annum from distributed energy resources (DERs). We are building a Software as a Service (SaaS) subscription business with a global addressable market of £2.4 billion per annum, by digitally connecting hundreds of thousands of DERs with energy markets.

We have already attained a market leading position and KrakenFlex is a recognised thought leader and innovator in the industry.

As we enter the stage of rapid commercialisation and customer account growth, we have a number of exciting new offerings to launch to customers. We’re looking for an exceptional person to help us continuously deliver features that provide value to our customers. Our ideal engineer would be an individual who loves to engage with interesting software problems, with an interest in data related development and the passion to build and shape the future within a collaborative, community-based environment. We operate a highly agile development approach, giving wide scope to be involved with hands-on system-design, test driven development, deployment and operations.

Our data sources and problems are many and varied.  We have some simple but high throughput data sources (e.g. over 5,000,000,000 rows a day and growing rapidly), complex unstructured and semi structured data and complex application data from our various microservices.

Our aim is to allow our business and our customers to answer increasingly complex questions, and gain new insights, based on our data, additional external data, and things we can learn and models we can extract from our data.  

• Build and maintain a global data platform
• Build and maintain data pipelines that deliver key data and insights to the business and our customers
• Integrate new data sources into the data platform through APIs, CDC or bulk data transfer
• Build and maintain testing and documentation frameworks for our data sources
• Work with the business to scope and deliver new data engineering projects and requirements
• Maintain and build on our existing data infrastructure and tools
• Support the internationalisation of our data infrastructure as we continue to grow globally
• Contribute to the software engineering and data engineering culture here at Kraken
• Collaborate regularly with colleagues with many different professional specialities, including software engineers and data scientists, to create innovative solutions that delight our customers and colleagues
• Work as part of a globally distributed team of engineers, regularly seeking feedback and growing your skills as technical professionals.

• In depth industry experience in a data engineering capacity
• Experience in Python
• Experience developing, securing or operating cloud scale data platforms and infrastructure; ideally terraform or cloudformation
• Experience with data processing and/or analytics technologies e.g. Databricks, dbt, AWS Glue, Spark, Airflow, Redshift, SQL, Parquet/delta (don’t worry, we don’t expect or want you to have them all, and experience with other technologies doing the same jobs is also interesting).
• Industry experience in software development & design
• A drive to get things done in a collaborative, agile development environment
• An interest in working with large data sets, both processing and analysing, and building data products for our customers
• A proven ability to perform and communicate well in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent analytical and multitasking skills

• Experience working with data lakes and data at scale
• Experience migrating data between platforms at scale
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud providers, and serverless technologies e.g. AWS Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB, API Gateway 
• Experience working with a team distributed across multiple continents and timezones

• Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Kraken - what's more important to us is finding the right Kraken-fit!
• Kraken has an unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! Our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people 
• Visit our perks hub - Kraken Employee Benefits

If this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you.

Are you ready for a career with us? We want to ensure you have all the tools and environment you need to unleash your potential. Need any specific accommodations? Whether you require specific accommodations or have a unique preference, let us know, and we'll do what we can to customise your interview process for comfort and maximum magic!

Studies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire. Across Octopus, we're looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.