Company Overview
SCHWARZ Digits creates the technological foundation for digital sovereignty in Europe. As the IT and digital division of the Schwarz Group, we develop and manage the IT infrastructures for the retail divisions Lidl and Kaufland, as well as Schwarz Production and PreZero. At the same time, we operate as an independent provider in the external market to support companies across Europe in their digital transformation. We bundle our core services in the areas of Cloud, Cyber Security, Data & AI, Communication, and Workspace.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop the Telemetry Router as a sovereign cloud service, focusing on high-volume data collection, transformation, and secure routing
- Extend the system architecture by identifying and implementing relevant open-source projects (e.g., OpenTelemetry) to capture logs, metrics, and traces, ensuring their seamless flow through the router
- Develop Kubernetes operators to automate the life cycle of the Telemetry Router service and its configuration
- Develop and maintain REST APIs that allow customers to programmatically access and control their telemetry routing and data transformation lifecycles
- Take ownership in an agile 'You Build It - You Run It' environment, acting as a bridge between development and SRE
- Conduct complex data flow and pipeline analyses to ensure data integrity and compliance, identifying bottlenecks and implementing sustainable fixes in the router
Requirements
- Deep enthusiasm for Software Engineering, Cloud-Native Observability, Data Pipelining, and SRE
- Active ownership of the entire software development lifecycle, with Kubernetes and Kubernetes operators being your bread and butter
- Experience with or eagerness to master the Vector framework and high-performance data transformation
- Understanding of the security, auditing, and compliance needs of event data in today's cloud environment services
- Excitement about discovering new technologies (e.g., OpenTelemetry) and sharing your knowledge with the community and the team
- Ability to analyze underlying telemetry data structures and optimize the routing for integrity and cost-efficiency
Benefits
- Fast decision-making processes
- Genuine creative freedom in your projects
- Stable foundation of the Schwarz Group