Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a Data Platform Engineer (d/f/m) who enjoys working with data and building cloud platform services, integrations, and developer tooling to join the mobile.de Data Platform team .

As the company’s data platform team, we have a big lever: we help shape how the whole organization works with data. You’ll contribute to building a platform that empowers data engineers and domain teams with paved paths , self‑service capabilities , and smart guardrails —and you’ll help us put data mesh practices into action in a pragmatic way.

The role also spans the operational side: from IaC and CI/CD to observability, reliability, and cost‑aware operations . In short, you’ll turn platform ideas into services people can trust in production.

As a team, we believe our best work happens when we share context early, write decisions down, communicate clearly, and challenge ideas respectfully. We’re building a team where reliability is shared, learning and curiosity are encouraged, and different perspectives and working styles are welcome—so everyone can do their best work (and enjoy the ride while we’re at it).

What you’ll do

• Design, build, and evolve a resilient, future‑proof cloud data platform that enables internal teams to produce and consume high‑quality data products.

• Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Analytics to understand needs and deliver platform capabilities that make their work easier.

• Drive operational excellence by integrating monitoring, alerting, FinOps, and observability best practices into all platform components to ensure reliable and efficient operations.

• Help us move faster on AI readiness by enabling platform integrations for AI use cases and supporting LLM‑ready data (quality, governance, privacy, evolution).

• Shape the future of our data platform by contributing to architecture discussions and code reviews, and influencing key technical decisions.

• Raise our standards by standardizing services and tooling, and producing clear documentation and communication that help teams produce and consume data products through consistent self‑service paths.

Who you are

• You have experience building scalable, reliable data solutions and bring a platform mindset —you enjoy building services, integrations, and developer tools for internal customers.

• You have solid programming skills in a JVM language or Python , and you’re comfortable with SQL .

• You know cloud fundamentals and have hands‑on experience (we work with GCP , e.g., BigQuery, Dataproc, Cloud Run, IAM).

• You have hands‑on experience with infrastructure and operations practices and tooling—e.g., IaC (Terraform) , CI/CD (GitHub Actions) —and operating services reliably in production.

• You bring a strong data quality & governance mindset (schema evolution, data quality checks, data contracts, metadata, access control) to make data trustworthy by default.

• You bring AI literacy and curiosity , ideally with exposure to app development and LLM integration patterns (e.g., RAG, vector stores, MCP) and preparing LLM‑ready datasets .

• Nice to have: experience building internal developer tooling (e.g., portals, CLIs/SDKs, or UIs) with a focus on making platform capabilities easy to discover and use.

Interview accommodations: If you need any reasonable accommodations during the interview process, please let us know—we’ll do our best to make it work.

Additional information

• Recharge with 28 days of paid time off.
• Stay mobile with a €50 monthly transportation/mobility allowance.
• Keep growing with a development budget and access to coaching.
• Family first - enjoy up to 12 (non-birth parent) or 20 (birth parent) weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Learn anytime, anywhere with our online and offline library.
• Get rewarded with an attractive base salary and participation in our annual incentive plans.
• Work from anywhere - up to 20 days per year from wherever you feel most productive.
• Prioritize your well-being with a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme for you and your immediate family.

Company description

Founded in 1996, mobile.de disrupted the status quo of buying and selling cars as the first online vehicle marketplace.

Today, we are Germany’s largest vehicle marketplace with around 1.4 million listed cars, commercial vehicles, motorcycles and e-bikes. Both private customers and more than 40,000 registered vehicle dealers use the platform and benefit from 108 million customer visits per month. As a "one-stop shop”, mobile.de’s offering includes financing and leasing solutions in addition to buying and selling – and we will not stop innovating. If you are driven by an eagerness to learn and a passion for collaboration then we should get to know each other.

mobile.de is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

If you feel like you don’t meet all of the requirements for this role but are interested, please consider applying anyway. We strongly encourage people from historically excluded groups to apply.

What we offer

Meaningful Work: We are a diverse, international, highly skilled and passionate team committed to a world where people share more and waste less. Every day you will have the opportunity to make a huge difference for our users, customers as well as shape the future.

Embracing AI: We’re at the forefront of integrating cutting-edge AI technologies into our operations. Being part of mobile.de you will work with and learn about AI tools, contributing to projects that leverage AI to enhance efficiency, improve customer experiences, and drive our mission forward. With an AI-first mindset, we foster a culture of continuous learning and experimentation, empowering our team to explore and apply AI in meaningful ways for the company and themselves.

Growth and Development: We are a global organisation who truly believes in growing our people. To support this we offer lots of development and training opportunities and provide a budget for our team members.

Connection and Inclusion: Our culture is the glue that holds us together. We believe in making meaningful connections and creating an inclusive atmosphere with lots of opportunities to connect both in your day to day work and through social team activities (online and offline).