Pix
Pix
51 – 200 Employees
EducationGovernmentSaaS
Pix is a public-interest organization building digital skills through a free online assessment and learning platform. Its interactive challenges cover five major areas of digital competency, helping people practise and measure their abilities before taking Certification Pix, a state-recognized credential. Pix also develops resources for educators, professional trainers, digital inclusion services, and other organizations supporting digital learning. Working with public-sector and education partners in France and internationally, the organization contributes to lifelong digital skills development at scale.

Data Engineer at Pix — Paris Hybrid

Help scale Pix’s data platform for digital-skills assessment and certification. Improve PostgreSQL, Spark, Kubernetes, pipelines, observability, and production reliability.

Description

  • Shape architectural decisions and improve the Data platform as usage expands across France and internationally
  • Maintain and advance data-processing and storage architectures
  • Diagnose performance constraints and deliver targeted optimizations
  • Configure and tune PostgreSQL, Spark, and Kubernetes environments
  • Build and maintain dependable data-processing workflows
  • Improve data pipelines and their orchestration
  • Lower production incident rates and strengthen processing resilience
  • Use software engineering practices including testing, continuous integration, code review, and maintainable code structure
  • Maintain the availability and performance of data repositories and analytics tools
  • Create and refine metrics, alerts, and monitoring dashboards
  • Examine platform and Metabase usage
  • Record incidents, technical decisions, and remediation actions
  • Translate team needs into suitable Data solutions
  • Contribute to knowledge-sharing sessions and collaborative technical discussions
  • Help standardize metrics, definitions, and documentation
  • Promote team autonomy and the use of Data best practices

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, representing at least three to four years of higher education
  • Around five years of Data Engineering experience, including direct work in production environments
  • Background handling data-volume, performance, or scalability challenges
  • Capability to configure and optimize technical tools
  • Comfort working independently in a small team with broad ownership
  • Advanced SQL and PostgreSQL skills, especially performance tuning and optimization
  • Substantial Spark experience, including configuration and optimization
  • Operational Kubernetes experience in a Data environment
  • Proficiency with Airflow or a comparable workflow orchestration tool
  • Working knowledge of Git and software development practices for Data pipelines
  • A methodical, curious, and proactive working style
  • Ability to explain technical subjects to stakeholders with different levels of expertise
  • Collaborative mindset and enthusiasm for knowledge sharing
  • Python, dbt, and Metabase experience is a plus
  • Familiarity with observability tools such as Grafana or Datadog is a plus
  • Experience with Open Source technologies or projects is a plus
  • Experience operating an internally managed technology stack without depending exclusively on major-cloud managed services or an integrated platform
  • Interest in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible or Terraform

Benefits

  • €12.10 meal vouchers for each working day, with 60% paid by the employer
  • Employer coverage of 75% of public transportation passes
  • 25 days of paid leave plus 20 additional RTT days annually
  • Year-end bonus of up to 10% of annual gross salary
  • Hybrid work available to all employees from anywhere in France
  • €450 over three years toward home-office setup
  • Remote-work allowance of €253.44 per year, paid at €63.36 per quarter
  • Access to Moka Care’s mental-health and well-being platform
  • Reduced rates at more than 1,500 fitness centers through Wellpass
  • Unlimited access to the Go1 e-learning platform
  • Year-end gift voucher
  • Secure digital document storage through Docaposte
  • Weekly delivery of fresh fruit and vegetables
  • Two company seminars annually, plus after-work events, Winterfest, and other team activities
  • Spacious cafeteria with unlimited espresso
  • Onboarding plus invitations to panels, demonstrations, and design workshops

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