About the company
Emerging Travel Group is a global travel-tech company that develops online booking platforms for individual tourists, travel agents, and companies organizing business trips. Its solutions help hoteliers showcase their accommodations, increase visibility, and attract a broader audience.
Responsibilities
•Own the big data infrastructure of the international contour and serve as its technical lead
•Deploy, upgrade, and operate core platform services, including HDFS, Apache Ozone, and Iceberg
•Help run an infrastructure pilot that changes the platform's data model from a small number of very large datasets to thousands of small tables
•Introduce compute and storage quotas for business units
•Migrate from the default Iceberg catalog to a more capable catalog, such as Lakekeeper or Gravitino
•Rebuild monitoring and alerting so alerts are meaningful
•Share approaches and solutions with the engineer running the same stack in a parallel contour, and provide mutual cover
•Replace outdated tools with newer versions
Requirements
•5+ years of experience designing, deploying, and operating big data platforms
•Hands-on experience deploying, upgrading, and troubleshooting HDFS/Hadoop
•Hands-on experience deploying and operating S3-compatible object storage; Apache Ozone is ideal, while MinIO or similar solutions are also relevant
•Experience with Apache Iceberg
•Experience setting up monitoring and alerting for data infrastructure
•English B2
•Ability to work in the GMT+3 time zone, with a difference of up to 3 hours
Nice to have
•Experience with Trino, Kafka, or Flink
•Iceberg REST catalogs such as Lakekeeper, Gravitino, Polaris, or similar
•Resource quotas and cost allocation in a multi-tenant data platform
•Hands-on use of AI tools such as Copilot or agents to speed up work
Conditions
•Flexible schedules
•Structured onboarding, a personal development plan, and regular internal team lectures and demos
•Internal adaptation and training programs, soft-skills and leadership development
•Partial compensation for external training and conferences
•Corporate English lessons, including group and individual lessons and speaking clubs with colleagues worldwide
•Corporate prices on hotels and travel services
•MyTime Day Off: an extra non-working day without loss of compensation
