As part of the Platform tribe, you will help build a self-service, AI-Ready Data Platform. The Data Platform team supports our next big bets: Data, AI, and real-time analytics. We are a team focused on building scalable, reliable infrastructure to enable our global data community.
What you’ll do
- Build and maintain best-in-class data infrastructure for critical processes.
- Develop features that strengthen self-service, including for ETL and orchestration.
- Optimise processes to use compute more efficiently and reduce cost.
- Automate operations so the platform stays highly available.
- Contribute to the design and implementation of new services.
You’ll be a strong fit if you
- Have experience with infrastructure as code and containerisation (e.g. Terraform, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes).
- Have used modern query engines (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Trino).
- Have worked with modern data orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow, Dagster).
- Are proficient in at least one of our main languages: Python or Go.
- Bring a pragmatic, team-first mindset.
- Are self-motivated, work well independently, and can balance stakeholder needs.
Nice to have
- Experience building and operating performant API layers.
- Experience with dbt for transform, test, and documentation workflows.
- Query optimization at scale.
- Real-time streaming (e.g. Kafka, Flink, StarRocks, Pinot, Druid, ClickHouse).
- Experience with systems at petabyte scale.
- Experience implementing AI-enabled systems (e.g. agentic SRE, AI automation).
About SumUp
We believe in the everyday hero. Small business owners are at the heart of all we do, so we're creating tools that help them run their businesses. With a founder’s mentality and a 'team-first’ attitude, our diverse teams across Europe, South America, and the United States work together to ensure that the small business owners we partner with can be successful doing what they love. SumUp is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. SumUp does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, colour, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other basis protected by applicable laws or prohibited by company policy. SumUp also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind. SumUp will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate.
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SumUp Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about SumUp and has not been reviewed or approved by SumUp.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is positioned as a standout, including 22 vacation days that increase with tenure, public holidays, a quarterly Wellness Day, special leave, and a fully paid one‑month sabbatical after three years. This combination makes time-off benefits feel notably robust in the overall rewards package.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with medical plan options (including carriers such as Cigna and Kaiser) plus dental and vision. Company-paid life insurance and disability coverage are also part of the protection package in the U.S. materials.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a published 401(k) match formula that provides an employer match up to a stated cap. The clarity of the match structure supports straightforward evaluation during offer comparisons.
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What We Do
SumUp believes that every business should have access to affordable, easy-to-use financial solutions, no matter their size. That’s why more than 3 million businesses worldwide rely on SumUp to run their business. What started out as one card reader has now turned into a range of payment hardware, banking solutions, marketing, and loyalty tools, invoicing, and so much more. From sales and marketing to product and engineering, our cross-functional US team works together to ensure that small business owners can be successful doing what they love.
Why Work With Us
SumUp USA is part of the global SumUp organization that stretches across multiple continents from Berlin to Sao Paulo. Our teams are multicultural, have a collaborative mindset and bold goals. Join our mission if you want to become part of the success story and help empower over 3 million merchants using SumUp already!
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