About this role
At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where ,Health for all, Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.
Senior Data Engineer
We’re looking for a pragmatic, hands-on Data Engineer to join our Observability Squad and help build, run and scale our telemetry data platform based on the Grafana stack. In this role you’ll implement and maintain ingestion pipelines for metrics, logs and traces, instrument systems with OpenTelemetry, enable fast, reliable analytics for stakeholders, and collaborate closely with SREs, data architects and product teams to turn observability signals into actionable insights.
You’ll enjoy solving production-level data problems, tuning pipelines for performance and cost, and making observability data accessible and useful across the organization.
Key Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Build & operate ingestion pipelines: Implement and maintain reliable, scalable data pipelines for metrics, logs and traces (collection → transform → store → query), including backpressure handling, batching, retries and schema evolution.
- Instrument systems: Implement OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation patterns and assist teams in correct metrics/logs/traces placement, naming, and cardinality control. Integrate source systems: Build connectors and adaptors to collect telemetry from cloud, on‑prem and third-party systems.
- Schema, transformation & enrichment: Design and implement lightweight transformation and enrichment flows (labeling, parsing, lightweight aggregation, tagging) to make data queryable and useful.
- Maintain and tune storage/query layer: Operate and optimize time-series and log stores (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo), including retention, compaction, indexing and cost optimization.
- Observability tooling & dashboards: Collaborate with analysts and product owners to create and maintain Grafana dashboards, alerts, and shared visualizations that provide clear operational and business insights.
- CI/CD and automation: Build tests, linting, deployments and observability for your pipelines using GitHub Actions (or similar), Terraform/Helm and IaC best practices.
- Data governance & security: Implement data access controls, masking where needed, and ensure compliance with data governance rules for telemetry data.
Qualifications & Competencies (education, skills, experience):
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience building and operating data/observability pipelines in production.
- Strong proficiency in Python (building ETL/processing code.
- Practical knowledge of the Grafana stack and OpenTelemetry concepts (metrics, traces, logs)- hands-on experience with Prometheus, Loki, Tempo or similar is highly desirable.
- Solid understanding of time-series databases, indexing and query performance tuning.
- Experience with containerization (Docker), Kubernetes, Helm and cloud platforms (preferable Azure).
- Proficient with GitHub and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent).
- Experience in applying Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Kanban)
- Fluent in English, both written & spoken, intercultural awareness and willingness to travel from time to time.
What do We offer:
- A flexible, hybrid work model
- Great workplace in a new modern office in Warsaw
- Career development, 360° Feedback & Mentoring program
- Wide access to professional development tools, training, & conferences
- Company Bonus & Reward Structure
- VIP Medical Care Package (including Dental & Mental health)
- Holiday allowance (“Wczasy pod gruszą”)
- Life & Travel Insurance
- Pension plan
- Co-financed sport card – FitProfit
- Meals Subsidy in Office
- Additional days off
- Budget for Home Office Setup & Maintenance
- Access to Company Game Room equipped with table tennis, soccer table, Sony PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles setup with premium game passes, and massage chairs
- Tailored-made support in relocation to Warsaw when needed
Please send your CV in English
You feel you do not meet all the criteria we are looking for? That doesn’t mean you aren’t the right fit for the role. Apply with confidence, we value potential over perfection.
WORK LOCATION: WARSAW AL. JEROZOLIMSKIE 158
YOUR APPLICATION
Bayer welcomes applications from all individuals, regardless of race, national origin, gender, age, physical characteristics, social origin, disability, union membership, religion, family status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or any unlawful criterion under applicable law. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and avoiding discrimination.
Bayer is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request any needed accommodation(s) using the contact information below.
Bayer offers the possibility of working in a hybrid model. We know how important work-life balance is, so our employees can work from home, from the office or combine both work environments. The possibilities of using the hybrid model are each time discussed with the manager.
Bayer respects and applies the Whistleblower Act in Poland.
Location:
Poland : Mazowieckie : Warszawa
Division:
Application Operations
Reference Code:
860780