Senior Data Platform Engineer, Smallpdf
PDF software
Open for applications
PDF software
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
Smallpdf is on a mission to make PDF easy.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is a highly capable engineer with strong experience in Redshift, Kubernetes, Python, and SQL, and who is confident operating and owning critical applications and infrastructure
- Experience with systems of similar scale and complexity is a strong plus
- Comfortable taking full ownership across the data platform life cycle, from ingestion and storage to transformation, orchestration, and reliable data delivery
- A systematic problem solver with a quality-first mindset, aiming for clean, reliable, and maintainable solutions whether you're debugging pipelines or designing new systems
- A strong communicator who enjoys collaborating with analysts, product managers, and engineers to build data systems that work seamlessly for everyone
- Curious, pragmatic, and up to date with the latest trends and technologies, particularly in the open-source scene
What the job involves
- We are seeking a senior Data Platform Engineer to work on the foundational components of our data stack
- Our platform processes over 100M events per day and powers a large Redshift warehouse that supports everything from company-wide reporting to document analytics and AB testing
- In this role, you’ll build and maintain reliable ingestion pipelines, ensure our Redshift warehouse performs consistently at scale, deliver high-quality data into our dbt transformation layer, and own the systems that expose data back to the business
- You will work closely with experienced data professionals and data-driven stakeholders to gather complex data and turn it into actionable insights
- Maintain healthy operations of our Redshift and Kubernetes (EKS) clusters, which sit at the foundation of our data delivery
- Oversee the ingestion of terabytes of near-real-time events from our products, backend, and third-party systems - the backbone of our reporting, AB testing, and operational monitoring
- Collaborate with technical and non-technical colleagues across the organization to set up and maintain data ingestion and infrastructure for our data applications
- Own the ingestion and infrastructure components that power our data applications (Looker, Growthbook, etc.), ensuring reliability, scalability, and self-serve access for internal teams
- Improve the developer experience in and around dbt by building tooling, templates, and CI workflows
- Enhance monitoring and observability of our data pipelines and data at rest
- Shape the next generation of our data platform by identifying gaps, evaluating new technologies, and building capabilities that enable data science, ML, and experimentation at scale
- Extend our reverse ETL capabilities and bring data products closer to customers. Own and operate hybrid data/backend pipelines that automate business-critical processes (e.g., data-driven updates to external systems such as Google Ads)
- Partner with analysts and data scientists to ensure they have reliable, well-modeled data
Our take
PDFs might be the bane of many employees’ existence, but they are not going anywhere. Smallpdf was created to ease the pain of converting, compressing and editing documents.
The company has focused on increasing the efficiency of handling PDFs wherever workers might encounter them. That has led Smallpdf to prioritise integrations with other major enterprise software companies such as Dropbox.
The startup is not happy to sit with its 25M+ unique users per month and is looking to acquire more customers by providing its services on additional platforms. Think fully-fledged native mobile apps for iOS and Android. It launched new features in 2025 that will help it to streamline PDF processes even more.
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Insights
-32% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Flexi Time | Early bird or slow to rise? We’ve got you covered with flexible working hours to suit you at your most productive.
- Choose Your Own Platform | Apple evangelist, Linux lover, or Windows disciple? We’re platform agnostic, so you have the freedom to choose how you work
- Free German Lessons | Sprichst du Deutsch? If that sounds like Greek to you, you’ll love that we offer free German language lessons
- Personal Development | We help our employees grow. Each year, you’ll get an allocated budget, plus dedicated time for personal development
- Free Food & Drinks | Enjoy our famous weekly team lunches, plus unlimited free coffee, and our fully stocked fridge—on the house
- All for Fun & Fun for All | Soak up the Swiss Alps, meet with your team in a canoe on Lake Zurich, or zoom around in a go-kart! We’re all for fun!
Company HQ
Alt-Wiedikon, Zürich, ZH
Leadership
Manuel Stofer
(CGO & Co-Founder)Stepped aside as CEO in 2019. Previously a web developer for many years, most recently at rtp.ch.
Lino Teuteberg
(Co-Founder & Design and Product Head)Is also the Co-Founder of TaxFix, where he previously served as CPO.
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