Description

XING provides advice and support to its more than 18 million members during the upheaval processes in the world of work. In an environment marked by a shortage of skilled workers, digitalization, and changes in values, XING helps its members achieve as harmonious a work/life balance as possible: For a better working life.

Olá Porto! We opened a new tech office in beautiful Porto two years ago and we are looking for great people to join our team!
We have job openings in many roles to complement our growing team. For all open positions, we look for skilled & dedicated people who share our passion for building products that millions of users love. 

At XING, a New Work SE subsidiary, you will find a technology-driven environment in which your contributions matter and you are enabled to grow professionally. You’ll be part of an organization with almost 300 amazing developers and a healthy culture of learning from each other via pairing, communities of practice, joint hackweek projects etc. While most of our products focus on the German speaking regions, our development teams are collaborating from 6 offices across Europe and our working culture is international.

XING is looking to welcome a “Data DevOps Engineer ” to join our highly skilled and motivated Data Infrastructure Services team. The team ensures effective performance of our data platform, consisting of Hadoop, Kafka and Cassandra environments, as well as hundreds of MySQL instances.
As part of the team, you focus on providing the best data experience to data-driven teams within the NWSE group.

A challenging task

• Ensure the availability, scalability and efficiency of our database and big data systems
• Design, develop and integrate features, tooling, automation and components into our data platform
• Consult and collaborate with data-related teams to support the efficient integration of data-driven services into our data platform
• 24x7 operation: maintain, troubleshoot and monitor our core data platform
• Participate in our on-call rotation

A convincing background

• BSc or higher degree in Computer Science or equivalent System or Software Engineering experience
• 2-5+ years of professional experience in the field of Data(Ops) Engineering, DevOps or Software Engineering
• Skills in any programming language (e.g. Scala, Java, Ruby or Python)
• Working knowledge of Linux operations, including automation, troubleshooting and monitoring (e.g. Kubernetes / Docker / Ansible / Prometheus / Grafana)
• Experience in working with at least one of these technologies: Hadoop (Oozie / Hive), Cassandra, MySQL, Kafka, Spark or Airflow
• Know-how with relevant AWS services is a plus
• A positive mindset and the social skills to work in a highly international and distributed setup, and desire to learn and share your knowledge
• Proficient English language skills
• Passion for data infrastructure

An inspiring environment

• The chance to work on a large, highly distributed platform with over 16 million users.
• Varied tasks, uncomplicated interactions with your colleagues as well as many opportunities to bring in your own ideas await you.
• Innovation/hack weeks every few months where you can unleash your creativity and ideas.
• Annual conference allowances, regular trainings, meetups and brownbag lunches throughout the year, as well as the opportunity to speak at conferences - we'll support you where we can
• Health Insurance
• An Employee Assistance Program to help you with all kinds of personal topics, to ensure you have the support for a better working life
• 25 days of vacation per year + 2 days off (Christmas eve and New Year’s eve)
• A multicultural environment with employees from all over the world, who have various technology backgrounds
• Free breakfast, fruit, drinks, snacks and much more.
• English, German and Portuguese lessons.
• A mobile device for your private use (iPhone, iPad, Android, you choose!).
• Competitive salary.

We contribute into open source (https://github.com/xing) and let the world know what we are doing (https://devblog.xing.com) and organize public user groups and coding events. Check out our XING engineering blog at https://tech.xing.com/.

Your turn: If you think this position is right for you and that you can help us make XING big in Porto, we’d be delighted to talk to you. Simply apply at https://xing-se.jobbase.io/job/d77ahfpj

Not the right job for you? Don’t worry! You’re more than welcome to send us an unsolicited application!