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Data Engineer

Enpal Berlin, Germany Today
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Job description

Our goal is to have a solar system on every roof, a storage unit in every house, and an electric car in every garage. Enpal makes this possible with an integrated total solution for decentralized energy—from solar systems and battery storage to wall boxes, smart meters, and heat pumps. At the heart of it all is our AI-powered platform Enpal.One+, which intelligently connects thousands of systems and efficiently optimizes electricity procurement and feed-in on the energy market.

Are you ready for solutions that are more than just a promise and bring real quality of life to thousands of households every day? What you create at Enpal will deliver clean electricity tomorrow and bring about lasting change in how we use energy.

About the Role

Our central Data Platform team builds the paved road that domain Analytics Engineering and BI teams build on top of within our data mesh. As a Data Platform Engineer, your customers are developers, not dashboards: you own the tooling, abstractions, and guardrails that let 55+ AE/BI engineers embedded across domains ship dbt models safely and fast across a ~2,500-model monorepo. You'll work at the intersection of dbt, Snowflake, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code, and you'll spend as much time unblocking and enabling others as you do writing code.

What You'll Do

  • Own and evolve our dbt platform: macros, packages, project structure, selective/state-aware runs, and CI gating across a large monorepo.

  • Build self-service scaffolding and developer tooling so domain teams can create models, sources, and tests without touching platform internals.

  • Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform and ArgoCD (GitOps), keeping environments reproducible and reviewable.

  • Enforce federated governance: data contracts, RBAC via Snowflake database roles, and domain ownership boundaries.

  • Support data privacy and compliance requirements, including metadata-driven PII handling.

  • Build observability and testing into the platform so failures are caught before they reach domain teams.

  • Partner with AE/BI leads to gather requirements, review designs, document patterns, and continuously lower the barrier to entry.

What We're Looking For

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals: Python, testing, reusable libraries, and a platform-as-product mindset.

  • Deep, hands-on dbt experience at scale (not just authoring models, but operating the platform around them).

  • Solid Snowflake knowledge: RBAC, performance, and warehouse management.

  • Experience with orchestration (Airflow) and containerized workloads (Kubernetes/AKS).

  • Comfort with IaC (Terraform) and GitOps (ArgoCD).

  • Familiarity with modern ingestion frameworks (dlt or similar).

  • Excellent communication and stakeholder empathy; you enjoy enabling other engineers and can navigate ambiguity in a cross-domain mesh.

Nice to Have

  • Experience building internal developer platforms or paved-road tooling.

  • Knowledge of data contracts and federated data governance.

  • GDPR/DSGVO-aware data handling experience.

  • Exposure to Snowflake Iceberg/REST catalogs or dbt Fusion.

    Are you interested even if you don't meet all the requirements? Apply anyway! We look forward to discovering your potential—regardless of whether your experience meets every single requirement. ☀️

What we offer

  • Work at Germany's first green unicorn - Play an active role in shaping the solar energy transition.

  • The sun shines all over the world - At Enpal, you'll work with a highly motivated, diverse team of over 65 nationalities.

  • The ideal setup for your focus - We are convinced that excellent results are achieved when the conditions are right. That's why we rely on a hybrid working concept that gives you the freedom to always work in the way that best suits your tasks. Do you need new inspiration on an international level? With Workflex, we offer you the opportunity to relocate abroad for up to 30 days a year, depending on your responsibilities.

  • Grown-up business & startup spirit - In our modern office in Berlin-Friedrichshain, you'll find everything your heart desires, from height-adjustable desks and table tennis to stocked beverage fridges and barista coffee.

  • Your kick-start at Enpal - Onboarding day with a welcome bag, buddy program, and a team that really supports you.

  • Stay up to date & help shape the future - Transparent all-hands meetings, short decision-making processes, and an open feedback culture - without mistakes, there is no progress.

  • The energy transition can only be achieved together - At Enpal, you can expect legendary team spirit and unforgettable team events.

  • Your extra boost - 29 vacation days + one additional day off on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, discounted membership at Wellhub, and corporate benefits. Everything you need to help you achieve a good work-life balance.

At Enpal, we are proud of the diversity of our team. No decisions are made on the basis of skin colour, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age, either during recruitment or employment. Enpal stands for a safe workplace and takes action against discrimination and harassment of any kind.