Data Engineer (Ingestion & Platform) @ Instructure Hungary Kft Budapest

Data Engineer (Ingestion & Platform) @ Instructure Hungary Kft
Budapest
Budapest, Budapest, HU

At Instructure, we believe in the power of people to grow and succeed throughout their lives. Our goal is to amplify that power by creating intuitive products that simplify learning and personal development, facilitate meaningful relationships, and inspire people to go further in their education and careers. We do this by giving smart, creative, passionate people opportunities to create awesome. And that's where you come in: 

At Instructure, we’re building the world’s leading teaching and learning ecosystem. With millions of daily users, our products help educators and learners thrive across the globe. We’re looking for a Data Engineer to join our internal platform team. You’ll help build and scale the data infrastructure that powers analytics across Instructure from internal decision-making to customer-facing insights. If you’re a software engineer with either strong Java experience, data engineering skills, or cloud infrastructure expertise and are excited to grow across the rest we want to hear from you.

Why Join Us:

• Your work matters. This platform powers insights that drive better products and outcomes for educators and students around the world.
• Growth mindset. We support learning through mentorship, hackweeks, internal talks, and hands-on experience with modern tools.
• Inclusive culture. We care about people, not just resumes. We value ownership, openness, simplicity, and strong relationships.
• We know great candidates come from all backgrounds. Even if you’re not sure you meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. We care deeply about building a supportive, inclusive culture and we’d love to hear your perspective.

You don’t need to check every box, but we’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Experience in SQL and data engineering, ideally with Spark or other distributed compute systems. Java or Scala experience is a plus, especially for supporting legacy systems (HUDI/Spark), but not required.
• Exposure to data pipelines or real-time streaming systems.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS.
• Comfort with tools like Terraform, or interest in learning it.
• A collaborative mindset and curiosity about building scalable platforms.
• [Bonus] Experience with Snowflake, Airflow, or dbt.
  

We’re especially excited about people who have strong skills in one area, backend dev, data engineering, or infrastructure and are eager to grow into the others.

At Instructure, we believe in the power of people to grow and succeed throughout their lives. Our goal is to amplify that power by creating intuitive products that simplify learning and personal development, facilitate meaningful relationships, and inspire people to go further in their education and careers. We do this by giving smart, creative, passionate people opportunities to create awesome. And that's where you come in: 

At Instructure, we’re building the world’s leading teaching and learning ecosystem. With millions of daily users, our products help educators and learners thrive across the globe. We’re looking for a Data Engineer to join our internal platform team. You’ll help build and scale the data infrastructure that powers analytics across Instructure from internal decision-making to customer-facing insights. If you’re a software engineer with either strong Java experience, data engineering skills, or cloud infrastructure expertise and are excited to grow across the rest we want to hear from you.

Why Join Us:

• Your work matters. This platform powers insights that drive better products and outcomes for educators and students around the world.
• Growth mindset. We support learning through mentorship, hackweeks, internal talks, and hands-on experience with modern tools.
• Inclusive culture. We care about people, not just resumes. We value ownership, openness, simplicity, and strong relationships.
• We know great candidates come from all backgrounds. Even if you’re not sure you meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. We care deeply about building a supportive, inclusive culture and we’d love to hear your perspective.

, [Build and maintain our modern data platform that ingests, transforms, and serves data at scale. , Work with technologies like Debezium, Kafka (MSK or Confluent), Snowflake, and Airflow. , Use Terraform and AWS to provision and manage infrastructure as code. , Write clean, testable code and collaborate in a supportive, review-driven engineering culture. , Participate in platform design decisions and drive improvements in scalability, quality, and developer experience. , Partner closely with analytics and product teams to support high-impact data use cases. ] Requirements: Data engineering, Backend, Infrastructure as Code, SQL, Hudi, data pipelines , AWS, Terraform, Snowflake, Airflow, dbt Additionally: Private Medicover healthcare, OTP Szep Card, Employee Assistance Program, Employee Recognition Program through Motivosity, Employee Wellness Program through Pandafit, Employee Wellness Program through Modern Health, Free coffee, Free beverages, Free breakfast, Free snacks, Weekly Team Lunch, Modern office, Startup atmosphere, No dress code, Free parking, Bike parking, Shower, Playroom, In-house hack days, In-house trainings.