Data Platform Engineer

Overview

Octopus Energy is a global energy leader revolutionizing the way people use energy. We are not just an energy supplier; we are a tech company building a cleaner, smarter energy future. The Global Energy Markets team ensures we have the electricity and gas needed to power customers’ homes and businesses, while supporting the grid to accelerate the transition to Net Zero. The team is organized into five specialist areas: Forecasting, Trading, Risk, PPA, and Engineering. Our Engineering sub-team maintains the global technical platform that powers these processes, builds better tools, streamlines workflows, and creates robust systems that keep trading operations running smoothly.

We’re looking for an experienced Data Platform Engineer to join us. You’ll work across tasks to support each team, use a variety of coding languages across our platform, explain technical processes clearly, and build scalable solutions that support data growth. Experience with trading systems, data flows, and EU electricity and gas markets is highly welcomed as it helps us grow internationally.

This is a role that blends complex data engineering, platform infrastructure, and business-critical problem-solving to transform the energy industry for the better.

What you will be doing and what you’ll have are described below.

What you will be doing

• Maintaining and developing our data platform infrastructure, helping team members debug and resolve live issues while growing a self-service suite of monitoring tools
• Driving long-term robustness and scalability of trading processes supporting global growth
• Setting up and maintaining processes for capturing, preparing and loading valuable new data into the data lake
• Helping trading, forecasting, risk and PPA teams to optimise key operational pipelines while taking responsibility for process maintenance
• Developing automations and alerts to quickly debug where these pipelines are failing or showing unprecedented trends
• Working with international teams across the Octopus Energy Group to ensure everyone shares best practices and code is standardised where possible

What you'll have

• Strong experience in platform infrastructure development with Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform/OpenTofu IAC, Postgres, CDC systems and Docker
• Passion for enabling self-service platform monitoring using Datadog, Grafana and Prometheus
• Expertise with SQL and Python as core data languages
• Solid experience with Django and WSGI would be highly desirable
• Experience with data products such as Airflow, Spark, dbt, Jupyter
• Skilled at shaping needs into a solid set of requirements and designing scalable solutions
• Team player with a sense of ownership across multiple projects and tools
• Passion for driving towards Net Zero
• Commitment to knowledge sharing and documentation for a more effective platform
• Open to travelling to Octopus offices across Europe and the US

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Why else you\'ll love it here

• Salary guidance is provided on request during recruiter calls to align with experience and what we deem the right fit
• Octopus Energy Group has a unique culture with autonomy, collaboration, and opportunities to work on ground-breaking projects
• Awards include Best Company to Work For (2022) on Glassdoor and top 10 companies for senior leadership
• Stock options, transportation and lunch subsidies, company pension, and other benefits

Benefits

• Stock options
• Monthly transport ticket contribution
• Monthly lunch contribution
• Company pension plan

Family

• Advice and support with childcare via HeyNanny
• Monthly childcare contribution
• Parental allowance bonus: top-up for 3 months

Health & wellness

• Contributions to fitness programs via Wellpass
• Wellbeing support with Open Up
• Bike leasing

Learning & continuing education

• Continuing education and career opportunities
• Free language courses via Busuu

Extra goodies

• Birthday voucher

For this role we are looking for someone who would be happy to work in the Munich office 2-3 days a week.

Our process usually takes up to 4 weeks, but we’ll flex around what works for you. You’ll chat with our recruitment team and your Recruiter will help you throughout the stages. If you have questions, email

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.

Are you ready for a career with us? If you need accommodations, let us know and we’ll tailor the interview process for comfort and maximum potential.

Studies have shown that some groups of people are less likely to apply unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. We encourage you to apply regardless of perfect alignment. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any protected attribute. We are committed to equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.

Seniority level

• Not Applicable

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Utilities and Environmental Services

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