Data Engineer: ZMS Audiences (all genders)

ABOUT THE TEAM

Zalando Marketing Service (ZMS) stands for a new era of marketing in e-commerce. The company helps partners to shape love brands, create strong customer relationships, and accelerate their business, by integrating data-infused and inspirational marketing. ZMS enables fashion, beauty and lifestyle partners to engage with ~50 million active customers across 25 European markets on Zalando and beyond, and provides access to exclusive fashion and lifestyle audiences. Based on deep customer insights, smart marketing tools, assortment and content creation expertise across >50K campaigns, ZMS drives the marketing and sales impact of its partners seamlessly along the path to purchase, from brand awareness, to consideration and conversion.

Team Audiences is responsible for building and maintaining our customer segmentation platform. We leverage advanced data processing techniques and custom machine learning solutions to enhance the precision and impact of the targeted marketing campaigns at Zalando Marketing Services.

As a data engineer, you will be part of the core team that designs, develops and operates our segmentation platform. The technical scope covers large-scale batch processing, ETL, managing cloud resources and data analysis.

INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN

At Zalando, our vision is to be inclusive by design. This vision starts with our hiring - we do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, personal expression, ethnicity, religious belief, or disability status. You are welcome to leave out your picture, age, or marital status from your application. We only assess candidates on their qualifications and merit. 

We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need, so we can best support you throughout the hiring process. 

• do.BETTER - Our Diversity & Inclusion strategy: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/dobetter-our-diversity-and-inclusion-strategy

• Our Employee Resource Groups: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/our-employee-resource-groups

WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of Engineers, Product Managers, Analysts, and Applied Scientists to ideate, design and build our audience builder platform.

• Refine and evolve our batch-processing pipelines, ensuring efficiency and scalability.

• Own your code and participate in operational duties, including monitoring and maintaining service health and performance.

• Contribute to maintaining code quality and best practices, including active participation in code reviews.

• Contribute to system design and help us build robust data systems.

WE'D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF:​

• You have some experience in building and operating data processing pipelines at scale. We currently use Airflow as our scheduler and Spark as our processing engine.

• You have a solid foundation in software engineering and are comfortable writing clean, testable and performant code.

• You have hands-on experience with a public cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) and are comfortable deploying to container-first CI/CD pipelines.

• You are proficient in SQL, Python and Scala/Java.

• You are invested in data quality. Concepts like data lineage, governance and privacy are not just buzzwords, but are crucial to your professional ethos.

 

If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with our tech stack, we encourage you to apply anyway. We value data processing and architecture expertise over specific tools and frameworks.

OUR OFFER

Zalando provides a range of benefits, here’s an overview of what you can expect. Learn all about Zalando and our values here: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/?gh_src=22377bdd1us 

• Employee shares program

• 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Zalando Lounge, discounts from external partners

• 2 paid volunteering days a year

• Hybrid working model with 60% remote per week, actual practice is up to each team to best support their collaboration  

• Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year

• 27 days of vacation a year to start (+1/year until 30)

• Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement)

• Family services, including counseling and support

• Health and wellbeing options (including Gympass)

• Mental health support and coaching available

Please note that all applications must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via email.