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Data Engineer

  • Hybrid
    • Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
  • Product Development

Job description

Help shape the future of food with AI

At Blue Radix, we build technology that tackles one of the biggest challenges out there: feeding a growing population with fewer resources. We are the global leader in autonomous greenhouse management, using advanced algorithms to help growers produce more with less.

Our in-house platform acts as a digital brain for greenhouses worldwide. Built by a team of data, tech, and crop experts, it enables smarter, more sustainable food production at scale.

Working at Blue Radix means real impact. You take ownership, help shape our direction, and see your work directly applied in the real world.  You’ll join a diverse, international team that combines deep expertise with a no-nonsense, high-performance mindset.

If you want to work on technology that matters and help solve a global problem with real-world impact you’re in the right place.

Your role:


At Blue Radix we are looking for a Data Engineer to develop and extend our fast-expanding data infrastructure. 

In this role you are responsible for building and managing the infrastructure, new technical implementations, and components that will handle data and logic. You will support other development teams and data scientists with technical questions. Every day, you work in close cooperation with architects, data scientists, product and application developers to create the best solutions possible. You will create operational processes that run fully autonomously, always reliable, and scalable for global operations.

As a Data Engineer you are an important linking pin between the Product Development team and the development team. Your work includes:

  • Collaborate closely with our business analysts and backend engineers to implement stable algorithms and ETL pipelines and develop data solutions based on known designs within the current data infrastructure

  • Work in teams with end-to-end technical responsibility for AI-driven products and their features

  • Design, develop and extend data models for optimal data retrieval, storage, and business logic to meet business requirements 

  • Analyze large data sets to solve incidents, identify gaps and inconsistencies, and provide data insights

  • Ensure that monitoring and solving of issues can be done in an efficient way by maintaining dashboards and logging

What are you bringing along?

You have been working as a Data Engineer for at least three years. During these years, you have developed a solid skill set:

  •  A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, or other related technical fields

  • Programming of back-end applications (Python) and a solid understanding of cloud data technologies, like data lakes, time-series technologies, and APIs. 

  • You know how to work with Git and CI/CD, ensuring automated tests and code quality checks.

  • Experience in designing and deploying high performance systems with reliable monitoring and logging practices, with tools like Datadog and Dagster . 

  • Extensive experience with cloud platforms like AWS or Azure. Azure experience is a strong plus.

  • You are used to use AI-assited coding tools like Claude, Cursor or CoPilot.

  • You are a colleague with a positive attitude who enjoys working in a team. You can work independently, you can master new tooling quickly, you are proactive, and you have a pragmatic approach

Why work at Blue Radix?

You will become part of a team of talented, skilled, and educated colleagues developing cutting-edge solutions. You fit in perfectly if you are looking for:

  • The opportunity to create a world that is future proof, whilst expanding your know-how, fulfilling your ambitions, and evolving new initiatives. Develop yourself by joining high quality personal skills training, visit conferences or follow courses with your team.

  • We enjoy to spend time together during lunch, drinks and events to get to know each other and have a good time. The diversity in our team provides a great source of amazing stories, experiences and insights.

  • Always something exciting to work on with our broad range of activities ranging from energy optimisation to climate control algorithms using advanced technology.

  • The chance to be part of an exciting journey in a growing company with an international customer base.

  • When you work at Blue Radix, you contribute directly to our success. You are involved in the direction of the strategy; you are given professional freedom and you take your responsibility.

  • A good balance between working at home and meeting colleagues at the office.

  • A great location to work in the Van Nelle factory (World Heritage Location) with awesome coffee.

Up for the challenge?
Send us your resume and a motivation letter, written by you, not ChatGPT. We love AI, but this time, we need a human!

 

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