Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

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Responsibilities

• ▹Own, design & operate data pipelines: full responsibility for all pandas- and Spark-based pipelines, from development through production and monitoring
• ▹Advance ML models for AdTech use-cases such as look-a-like modelling, audience expansion, and campaign measurement
• ▹Build extra-robust validation and self-healing jobs for data that is invisible inside confidential enclaves
• ▹Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, backend engineers (Rust), and product teams
• ▹Leverage LLM-based code assistants, design generators, and test-automation tools to move faster
• ▹Profile, benchmark, and tune Spark workloads, introduce best practices in orchestration & observability

Requirements

• ▹Bachelor/Master/PhD in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field and 5+ years of professional experience
• ▹Expert-level Python plus solid hands-on experience with pandas, PySpark/Scala Spark, and distributed-data processing
• ▹Proven track record building resilient, production-grade data pipelines with rigorous data-quality and validation checks
• ▹Experience running workloads in Databricks, Spark on Kubernetes, or other cloud/on-prem big-data platforms

Nice to have

• ▹Working knowledge of ML lifecycle and model serving; familiarity with audience segmentation or look-a-like modelling
• ▹Exposure to confidential computing, secure enclaves, homomorphic encryption, or similar privacy-preserving tech
• ▹Rust proficiency (used for backend services and compute-heavy client-side modules)
• ▹Data-platform skills: operating Spark clusters, job schedulers, or orchestration frameworks (Airflow, Dagster)

What we offer

• ▹Join Decentriq's Engineering team as an individual contributor and earn growing responsibilities
• ▹Being able to create, shape, and benefit from a young company
• ▹An amazing and fun team distributed all over Europe
• ▹Competitive salary
• ▹A lot of opportunities for self-development

About the company

Decentriq is the rising leader in data-clean-room technology, headquartered in Zürich and trusted by renowned institutions across the DACH market and beyond, such as RTL Ad Alliance, Publicis Media, and PostFinance.