Senior Big Data Infrastructure Engineer

• As a Big Data Infrastructure Engineer in the Big Data Platform team, you’ll own the big data infrastructure of our international contour and be its technical lead.
• The role suits an experienced engineer who wants real ownership and a big say in architecture.

Responsibilities

• You’ll deploy, upgrade and operate the core services of the platform: HDFS, S3-compatible object storage (Apache Ozone), Iceberg and others.
• You’ll start by helping run an infrastructure pilot that changes how the platform is used: a small number of very large datasets will become thousands of small tables.
• You’ll introduce compute and storage quotas for business units, migrate us from the default Iceberg catalog to a more capable one (Lakekeeper or Gravitino), and rebuild monitoring and alerting so alerts mean something again.
• You’ll work closely with an engineer who runs the same stack in a parallel contour.
• You’ll share approaches and solutions with them and cover for each other.
• Our infrastructure runs on the latest versions of everything, and we actively replace outdated tools.

Requirements

• Emerging Travel Group · Kazakhstan (Remote) · — · Posted 2026-10-12
• 5+ years of experience designing, deploying and operating big data platforms.
• Hands-on experience with HDFS / Hadoop: deployment, version upgrades, troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating S3-compatible object storage. Apache Ozone is ideal, but MinIO or similar solutions also count.
• Experience with Apache Iceberg.
• Experience setting up monitoring and alerting for data infrastructure.
• English B2.
• Ability to work in the GMT+3 time zone (up to 3 hours difference).

Preferred

• Experience with Trino, Kafka or Flink.
• Experience with Iceberg REST catalogs (Lakekeeper, Gravitino, Polaris or similar).
• Experience setting up resource quotas and cost allocation in a multi-tenant data platform.
• Hands-on use of AI tools, such as Copilot or agents, to speed up your work.

Benefits

• Flexible schedules and opportunity to work remotely.
• Ambitious and supportive team who love what they do, appreciate each other, and grow together.
• A structured onboarding, a personal development plan, and regular internal lectures and demos from the team.
• Internal programs for adaptation and training, development of soft skills, and leadership abilities.
• Partial compensation for participating in external training and conferences.
• Corporate English school: Group and individual lessons, speaking clubs with colleagues from all over the world.
• Corporate prices on hotels and travel services.
• MyTime Day Off - an extra non-working day without loss of compensation.
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