About Octopus Energy and Kraken
Since 2016, Octopus has been on a mission to bring affordable, green energy to the world. With the help of our in-house developed technology platform, Kraken, we’ve become the largest energy supplier in the UK, opened retailers in 7 other countries, and licensed our software to retail giants including E.ON in the UK and Origin Energy in Australia. We’ve reinvented energy products with smart, data-driven tariffs to balance customer demand with renewable generation - and we’re the biggest investor in renewable generation in the UK.
We've since expanded our tentacles and we are now looking for a Platform Engineer, based in Melbourne. We're looking for someone with a general interest in technology and problem-solving; someone diligent and thoughtful. Working with Kraken is a chance to join an exciting scale-up business within the energy supply sector, one that’s at the forefront of changing the landscape of the energy industry across the world. A role with us offers you the chance to contribute to building world-class operations that will catapult you into a fantastic career.
Our team
At Kraken we have developed a platform to provide data services to our retail businesses and clients across 22 deployments globally.
The data platform engineering team develops and manages the back-end systems and processes supporting this platform, predominantly working with time-series data fed into the system by our customers’ smart metres. We have developed a suite of applications to process, transform, and make this data available to downstream services.
To process the volume of data we typically see, our applications run PySpark or dbt jobs using Databricks as our Spark engine. We also leverage Airflow and Kubernetes heavily. We also employ software engineering best practices to design, test, and deploy our data platform and services.
For our stack we use…
Python as our main programming language
Terraform for our infrastructure definition
Kubernetes for data services and task orchestration
Helm for deploying and managing kubernetes apps
Airflow for job scheduling and tracking
Circle CI / Github Actions for continuous deployment
Parquet and Delta file formats on S3 for data lake storage
Postgres / aurora for our relational databases
Spark / Databricks for data processing
dbt for data modelling
SparkSQL for analytics
Streamlit for data applications
Git for version control
Studies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire. Across Octopus, we're looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.