DevOps Data Engineer

ABOUT US

Indie Campers, the leading campervan marketplace, has a mission to make road trips accessible to everyone. Utilizing a digital approach and a customer-centric orientation, Indie Campers ensures a superior booking experience and high-quality road trips at affordable prices.

Through our travel platform, we have rented over a million nights and welcomed more than 300,000 travelers from 169 countries. We offer a wide and growing range of road trip options: short-term RV rentals, long-term campervan subscriptions, and even the option to buy our available vehicles.

Founded on a tech-driven principle, Indie is creating the software platform to manage future road trips. To help scale our systems and create a data-driven platform, we are expanding our product engineering team with top talent.

THE ROLE

To maintain and further improve our operations, it's crucial that our platform is built upon strong foundations in security, flexibility, data, and A.I. As a DevOps Data Engineer, you will be a skilled engineer with experience in building robust data pipelines, helping Indie Campers' tech infrastructure run smoothly. Your proficiency in operations and data management will be key in designing, implementing, and maintaining the infrastructure to support data ingestion, processing, and analytics.

In our rapidly growing company, we face a combination of new feature releases and addressing existing tech debt. We are enhancing our backend with data-focused pipelines and reliable event-driven services, ensuring a smooth front-end experience for our customers and partners with a stack built on React + Next. You can learn more about our technology stack .

We are driven by several core values that shape our innovative technology platform:

• Be Customer First - We aim to provide the best service at the best price to all customers.
• Be Humble - We strive to prove ourselves to the world.
• Be Bold - Taking calculated risks and innovating are key in affecting change.
• Be Tech-Driven - Seek solutions through technology and automation.
• Be Results-Oriented - Attitude and hard work will take you far.
• Be Entrepreneurial - Out-innovate your competition.
• Be Frugal - Find simpler, faster ways of doing things.

If you identify with these values, you will fit right into our diverse, informal environment that presents stimulating challenges and offers great opportunities for growth.

WHAT WILL YOU WORK ON?

• Creating, enhancing, and monitoring our infrastructure by implementing new solutions and technologies continuously;
• Working with Developers to understand new architectural needs and propose cost-effective solutions;
• Ensuring our code runs smoothly in the cloud, considering all security best practices;
• Automating as much as possible, with Infrastructure-as-code and GitOps;
• Being responsible for all cloud infrastructure aspects at Indie Campers;

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related engineering fields (mandatory);
• At least 3 years of professional experience;
• Strong experience with AWS services, namely, EKS, RDS, Cloudfront, EC2, Route53, Lambda, and CodePipeline/Build/Deploy;
• Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes and/or other container engines;
• Experience with monitoring and logging systems like ELK Stack or AWS CloudWatch Collaboration & Cross-Functional Support
• Experience in setting up data monitoring pipelines with SQL, Tableau, Metabase.
• Experience with PostgreSQL databases with bonus for experience with large-scale data storage like Hadoop and metadata stores.
• Bonus for experience in large scale online stores, payment systems, or financial transactions.
• Understanding of Python and/or Go languages (Ruby is a plus);
• Knowledge of Terraform and Infrastructure-as-code;
• Knowledge of CI tools and CD pipelines like GitHub Actions, AWS Codepipeline and/or Jenkins.
• Basic understanding of Grafana/Prometheus stack;
• Self-directed and organized;
• Team player.

This role is a hybrid role based in Lisbon, Portugal.

Are you prepared to Go Indie?