Data Engineer

Engineering · Full-time · Mountain View, United States

Job description

The global data management software market is set to reach $137.6 billion by 2026, and we're on a mission to make a significant impact. We're seeking intellectually curious and highly motivated Data Engineers to become foundational members of our Machine Learning and Data Platform team.

Required Qualifications for Ideal candidate

  • 4+ years of professional experience in SaaS/Enterprise companies
  • Strong experience with data ingestion and connectors
  • Experience in building end-to-end production-grade data solutions on AWS or GCP
  • Experience in building scalable ETL pipelines.
  • Ability to plan effective data storage, security, sharing, and publishing within an organization.
  • Experience in developing batch ingestion and data transformation routines using ETL tools.
  • Familiarity with AWS services such as S3, Kinesis, EMR, Lambda, Athena, Glue, IAM, RDS.
  • Proficiency in several programming languages (Python, Scala, Java).
  • Familiarity with orchestration tools such as Temporal, Airflow, Luigi, etc.
  • Self-starter, motivated, with the ability to structure complex problems and develop solutions.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to explain data and analytics strengths and weaknesses to both technical and senior business stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications - good to have

  • Deep familiarity with Spark and/or Hive
  • Understanding of different storage formats like Parquet, Avro, Arrow, and JSON and when to use each
  • Understanding of schema designs like normalization vs. denormalization.
  • Proficiency in Kubernetes, and Terraform.
  • Azure, ADF and/or Databricks skills
  • Experience with integrating, transforming, and consolidating data from various data systems into analytics solutions
  • Good understanding of databases, SQL, ETL tools/techniques, data profiling and modeling
  • Strong communications skills and client engagement

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