Senior Data Engineer – Flexibility

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Shape the Future of Energy: You will create and enhance data products that effectively connect and orchestrate millions of decentralized energy resources across the globe.

• Develop Advanced Data Workflows: Your role involves designing and implementing scalable clustering and forecasting workflows based on asset measurements and intricate time-series data.

• Empower Energy Trading: You will provide precise evaluations and predictions essential for high-stakes decision-making and trading in the wholesale energy market.

• Solve Scalability Challenges: You will utilize solid engineering practices and innovative problem-solving to ensure that millions of individual assets operate harmoniously.

• Drive Sustainable Impact: You will collaborate with an expanding team to deliver high-quality, impactful solutions that expedite the global shift towards a fully renewable energy system.

⛳️ Requirements

• Production-Grade Track Record: You possess hands-on experience with real-world projects and a strong history of delivering robust data solutions into production.

• Focus on Stabilization: You assume full responsibility for system reliability, actively monitoring and stabilizing workflows to guarantee continuous, high-quality operations.

• Time-Series Expertise: You are adept at handling large-scale time-series data and thoroughly understand the unique structural and processing challenges it entails.

• Technical Skills & Core Stack

• Programming & Data Wrangling: You have substantial experience in writing clean, maintainable code for complex data manipulation and transformation tasks. While our forecasting ecosystem relies on Python, Polars, and Pandas, at gridX, our primary programming language is Go. Strong proficiency in equivalent languages or data wrangling frameworks is highly appreciated.

• Database Mastery: You possess strong SQL skills, with a heavy reliance on ClickHouse, and experience in this area is greatly valued.

• Cloud & Infrastructure: You have practical experience in provisioning and managing scalable infrastructure using AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

• MLOps & Orchestration Workflow Management: You are skilled in building and orchestrating complex data pipelines and ML workflows. We utilize Metaflow, Argo, and MLflow, but practical experience with any comparable orchestration and model lifecycle tools is fully transferable.

• Rigorous Validation: You conduct thorough testing, validation, and benchmarking of models and data products prior to their deployment in live environments.

• Observability: You maintain clear visibility over production systems and possess practical experience in setting up metrics and alerting dashboards using Grafana.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible & mobile working: Work remotely for up to 70 days from anywhere in the EU.

• Vacation: 30 vacation days plus 0.5 days of special leave for both December 24th and 31st.

• Health & Sports: 30 Euro allowance for Urban Sports Club or E-Gym Wellpass, along with offers for company health management & (Mental) Health Care.

• Personal development: Cross-functional coaching, access to e-learning platforms, and an annual development budget of 1,500 euros per employee.

• Employee discounts: Access to gridX Corporate Benefits.

• Stay fit and save the planet with our JobRad offer.

• Receive a fair monthly contribution to your company pension plan.

• City travel subsidy: 30 Euros monthly allowance for your monthly/annual ticket.

• Modern workplace in the heart of Aachen and Munich with IT equipment of your choice.

• Relocation Support: We assist with your relocation to Germany.

• Experience the gridX culture at regular team events and receive an additional 100 Euros per employee for your department event.

• We will donate 20 Euros to a charity of your choice on your birthday.

• Sabbatical option: Take a break from your daily work routine to pursue personal projects, travel, or further education.