Axel Springer is Europe’s leading digital publisher and a global media and technology company headquartered in Berlin. With renowned brands such as BILD, POLITICO Germany, WELT und BUSINESS INSIDER Germany, we reach millions of users worldwide. We combine the reach of an established industry leader with the agility of a startup, constantly driving innovation to transform journalism for the digital age.
Our corporate strategy places AI at the center: “Digital is the new print. AI is the new digital.” This vision reflects our belief that the fusion of artificial intelligence and human creativity will shape the future of media. Our National Media & Tech division is the central tech hub that ensures our journalism is supported by state-of-the-art technology, positioning our brands to thrive in the digital age. We believe in the future of journalism as a business model and invest in forward-looking technologies. Our five essentials are the values that unite us and guide us in our commitment to freedom.
You’ll build and operate the data products behind Axel Springer’s media and advertising business: services, pipelines, and modeled datasets used by product teams, analysts, and data scientists.
This is a hands-on engineering role with responsibility for driving projects from initial idea through to production and ongoing operation. You’ll help shape solutions, align with stakeholders, and deliver reliable, maintainable software.
Our stack combines Go and Python in roughly equal measure, with some TypeScript, using AWS and Palantir Foundry. Experience delivering cloud solutions is essential; prior experience with our specific platforms is not.
You’ll report to a Data Engineering Manager and work within a business domain alongside engineers, data scientists, analysts, and product partners. Our domains include subscriptions, advertising, audience tracking, content performance, and event data.
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Diversity is an essential part of our corporate culture! We are looking forward to receiving all applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, ideology, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.
You can find information about the representation for the severely disabled at Axel Springer here: https://career.axelspringer.com/en/rsde
Contact person for this position (reference number REF2430L) is Marcel Burmester #LI-MB2
Axel-Springer-Straße 65
10888 Berlin
Deutschland