Data Platform Engineer

**About the company:** Kraken Minato-ku, Tokyo We believe energy should be better - for you and the environment. We’re a leading energy technology company providing a better experience for our customers through transparency, honesty and simplicity. **Responsibilities:** Build the platform used by Analytics Engineers to transform raw data into insight for the rest of the business - dbt is a powerful tool and we’ve built our own wrapper around it to maximise its effectiveness at Kraken Investigate and implement new tooling where appropriate, whether its developed in-house or sourced externally Maintain and build on our existing data infrastructure and tools. Consult the wider business on Analytics Engineering best practices and stay up to date with trends within the profession Support the internationalisation of our data infrastructure as we continue to grow globally. Requirements First and foremost, we want our data engineers to be great software engineers with a passion for writing high quality code. It would be helpful to have experience/expertise in the following: Python, SQL, DBT Experience deploying data services in a cloud environment (ideally AWS) Experience in infrastructure as code - Terraform / Spacelift Experience with monitoring and optimising developer productivity using tools like Sentry The projects will be varied and we’re looking for someone who can work autonomously and proactively to scope problems and solve and deliver pragmatic solutions. APPLY FOR THIS POSITION DO YOU NEED MORE INFO? ASK A QUESTION Meet Kraken's Developers Succeeding as a Senior Engineer at Kraken with Jos Vennik Jos is a senior software engineer and team lead of the payments and collections team at Kraken. He is also a line manager and a tech lead. Jos tells us about the environment at Kraken, what his job involves, and what makes working there so rewarding. Read their story... Why Kraken is an award winning workplace with Polly Sutcliffe Polly Sutcliffe came to Japan on the JET programme. After working as a translator, she pivoted her career through a coding bootcamp. Now she's a frontend developer at Kraken, where she works on their consumer-facing portal. Read their story... **Requirements:** First and foremost, we want our data engineers to be great software engineers with a passion for writing high quality code. It would be helpful to have experience/expertise in the following: Python, SQL, DBT Experience deploying data services in a cloud environment (ideally AWS) Experience in infrastructure as code - Terraform / Spacelift Experience with monitoring and optimising developer productivity using tools like Sentry The projects will be varied and we’re looking for someone who can work autonomously and proactively to scope problems and solve and deliver pragmatic solutions. APPLY FOR THIS POSITION DO YOU NEED MORE INFO? ASK A QUESTION Meet Kraken's Developers Succeeding as a Senior Engineer at Kraken with Jos Vennik Jos is a senior software engineer and team lead of the payments and collections team at Kraken. He is also a line manager and a tech lead. Jos tells us about the environment at Kraken, what his job involves, and what makes working there so rewarding. Read their story... Why Kraken is an award winning workplace with Polly Sutcliffe Polly Sutcliffe came to Japan on the JET programme. After working as a translator, she pivoted her career through a coding bootcamp. Now she's a frontend developer at Kraken, where she works on their consumer-facing portal. Read their story...