Senior Data Engineer

A US-based company on a mission to revolutionize the television viewing experience with the power of reliable data is looking for a Senior Data Engineer. The engineer will be in charge of developing tools and frameworks to support self-service analytics with data scientists, data analysts, and other business partners. The company leverages first-party data to assist viewers in engaging with relevant media and offers advanced advertising and measurement services. They have managed to secure $44mn+ during their Series C round of funding. This will be a full-time long-term position requiring 4+ hours overlap with the CET/PST time zone. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Create new data pipelines to assist ad campaign measurement
• Existing business processes should be automated and essential datasets should be shown
• Analyze and improve the scalability, stability, and efficiency of the core systems' data collection, storage, and retrieval procedures
• Instrument existing code and create services that expose the state of pipeline operations and datasets to internal users  
• Improve observability and supervision of production processes
• Concentrate on the performance of individual jobs in processing pipelines, including the algorithms that power them, as well as the tradeoffs and bottlenecks that affect their runtime and resource consumption
• Mentor data team members and help improve their software engineering skills
• Exhibit excellent coding and software design best practices

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 3+ years of relevant experience as a data engineer
• Prolific experience working with Python
• Extensive experience with Data Science/Analytics
• Prior experience working in a remote setting
• Nice to have some knowledge of AWS, Apache Spark, Jenkins, and Airflow
• Familiarity with Ansible, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and InfluxDB is desirable
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to interpret and analyze data
• Strong mathematical inclination is desirable
• Prior experience with Apache Spark or similar large-scale data processing frameworks is nice to have