Flightradar24

Senior Data Engineer

Flightradar24  •  Stockholm, SE (Onsite)  •  8 days ago
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Job Description

Flightradar24 is one of the most successful growth-stage tech companies in Stockholm. Each month more than 50 million aviation enthusiasts visit Flightradar24 (app/website) and our Commercial services team has many of the biggest names in aviation on its customer list.

The position requires that you are able to work from our office in Stockholm, Sweden. Relocation is not offered for this role.

What you’ll do

Your responsibilities include

  • Designing and improving data ingestion, streaming, and event processing (batch and real-time)

  • Refactoring and enhancing existing services, pipelines, and infrastructure

  • Implementing robust data collection, transformation, and storage solutions

  • Operating and improving cloud-based platforms (primarily AWS)

  • Improving observability, reliability, and operational tooling for production systems

  • Contributing to best practices around CI/CD, testing, code quality, and documentation

  • Collaborating with software engineers, data engineers, and analysts to deliver reliable data products

Current tech stack

  • Cloud & Data Platform: AWS (S3, Glue/Spark, Airflow/MWAA, Athena, MSK/Kafka, Lambda)

  • Streaming & Messaging: Kafka (or similar), RabbitMQ

  • Databases & Storage: SQL/NoSQL systems (e.g., MySQL/MariaDB/Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB, data lake/warehouse patterns)

  • DevOps & Platform: Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform

  • Engineering practices: Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, linting, unit tests, integration tests

About you

  • Experience with data engineering architectures for ingestion and transformation

  • Several years of hands-on experience building and operating production systems

  • Experience working with cloud-based platforms, preferably AWS

  • Solid understanding of databases (warehouses, OLTP/OLAP concepts, query performance)

  • Experience with event-driven or streaming architectures (Kafka or similar)

  • Strong understanding of reliability, observability, and production operations

We also see that you…

  • Are self-driven and comfortable making technical decisions independently

  • Can quickly understand and work within an existing codebase and architecture

  • Value clean code, testing, automation, and pragmatic engineering practices

  • Communicate clearly and professionally in English

About Flightradar24

With over 4 million daily users, Flightradar24 is the world’s most popular flight tracking service. Our app regularly tops the App Store and Google Play Travel charts. We also offer a wide range of commercial services and our customers include many of the biggest names in aviation.

We're constantly adding new services and improving existing products. To help us meet those challenges, we're looking for creative, collaborative and tech-savvy applicants to join us.

Benefits of working at Flightradar24 include:

  • Opportunity to impact a service with millions of end users from all around the world

  • Flexible and social work environment with free beverages, fruit, and snacks

  • Modern office in the heart of beautiful downtown Stockholm, Sweden

  • Being part of a diverse team with +30 nationalities and 6 continents represented with English being our main language

Flightradar24

About Flightradar24

Flightradar24 tracks positions of aircraft in real-time and turns that data into engaging consumer and business applications. The data comes primarily from a proprietary, crowd-sourced network of 50,000+ so-called ADS-B receivers hosted by private individuals and companies all over the world and tracks 250,000+ flights per day. This network of ADS-B receivers is the largest in the world.

In addition to ADS-B data, Flightradar24 is able to get positional data for non-ADS-B equipped aircraft through the use of Multilateration (MLAT). The ADS-B and MLAT data is merged with schedule and flight status data from airlines and airports to create a unique flight tracking experience. You can read more about how Flightradar24 works here:

http://www.flightradar24.com/how-it-works

Each day Flightradar24 has over 5 million unique users and our app has been the #1 selling app overall in Apple’s App Store in over 130 countries. Most airlines and many other companies in the aviation industry (including Airbus, Boeing and Embraer) use our services. The Flightradar24 app has been downloaded more than 100 million times. Flightradar24 is frequently featured in the media:

Wall Street Journal

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-men-who-know-where-every-flight-is-1440610114

Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/18/us-airlines-flightradar-idUSKBN0O31Q720150518

The Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204838/Rush-hour-skies-Real-time-map-shows-plane-air-right-now.html

Bild

http://www.bild.de/digital/handy-und-telefon/apps/neue-live-apps-fuer-das-smartphone-25031054.bild.html

Le Monde

http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2012/07/02/une-application-pour-savoir-ou-vont-ces-avions-qui-passent-dans-le-ciel

Industry
Aviation & Aerospace
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Stockholm, SE
Year Founded
2006
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