Data Platform Engineer (all genders)

Start your very own journey – with HolidayCheck!

At HolidayCheck, everything revolves around making vacations better – together. We're not only enabling the best time of the year for our travelers, but also creating an inspiring work atmosphere for our HolidayCheckers in our modern office in Munich (Germany), Poznan (Poland) or in Bottighofen (Switzerland).

We live our company values every day: as #TeamHolidayCheck, we build trust, take ownership, and love what we do – all for the perfect holiday experience!

Do you want to help us redefine the online travel business? At HolidayCheck, our vision is to make vacation better. We leverage data and technology to create real value for our customers, who are looking for their dream vacation. Within our data lake, we process millions of offers every day, we run hundreds of jobs to fuel reports and dashboards that drive our decision making and product features.

Your Tasks

• Own and evolve our AWS-based data platform to be cost-efficient, easy to change, secure by design, and adaptable to the fast-moving AI landscape
• Rapidly evaluate new data requests using AWS serverless and open-source alternatives
• Build and extend infrastructure with Terraform, and migrate legacy setups to IaC
• Support end-to-end ML workflows by simplifying training, deployment, and monitoring pipelines
• Reduce cross-cloud complexity and foster efficient collaboration between AWS and GCP platforms
• Drive operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, and resilient system design — with the confidence to make changes that may impact core business operations

OUR TEAM

• Our team enables secure and seamless access to data to build data products for HolidayCheck. Our clients are data scientists, business analysts and product owners. We touch almost every team in HolidayCheck.
• We are an international team at multiple locations across Central Europe
• Our main programming languages are Python and Scala
• Our tech stack includes, but is not limited to Airflow, Apache Spark/EMR, AWS, Docker/Kubernetes (EKS), DevOps (ArgoCD), Terraform, Kafka

What you bring

• You are eager to learn new technologies, also looking beyond the AWS world
• You are experienced with AWS from an Ops perspective and worked with Kubernetes, VPCs, Terraform, ArgoCD
• You value security and quality
• You have a good understanding of concepts in (big) data processing
• In short, you are passionate about processing data!

Our “All Inclusive Package” for you

Worka tion & Flexibility

• 20 days of workation within the EU – work where others go on vacation
• 60/40 hybrid model: two office days for collaboration & team spirit, three days remote
• Flexible working hours – early bird or night owl? We’ve got you covered!

Development & Culture 

• Extensive internal & external training opportunities
• Diverse corporate culture with over 30 nationalities
• From newbie to champion: structured onboarding for a smooth start

Perks & Appreciation 

• Anniversary perks in the form of extra vacation days or travel subsidies
• Your choice of hardware – Mac, Windows, or Linux
• Free parking or public transport subsidy

Work-Life-Balance & Wellbeing 

• Childcare subsidy for a family-friendly balance
• Depending on location: EGYM Wellpass / Hansefit membership or gym subsidy
• Healthy & delicious meals in the cafeteria or from our in-house chef Evelyn

Ready to join the HolidayCheck adventure? Then grab your suitcase full of talent and send us your application!

About us

Let’s make holidays better – together!

HolidayCheck is one of Europe’s leading digital companies for holidaymakers. We bring together under one roof the hotel review and travel booking portal HolidayCheck, the tour operator HolidayCheck Reisen, and our rental car platform.

Our vision? Make holidays better! Our culture? Colorful, international, and diverse! Here, people with a wide range of skills and personalities come together to create an inspiring environment – full of ideas, learning opportunities, and team spirit. Sounds like you? Then join our team!