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Software Engineer, Big Data

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Software Engineer, Big Data in USA new

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  • Full time
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  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, deploy, and maintain data ingestion pipelines and datalake systems for web events and downstream applications.
  • Develop batch and streaming big data processing systems and balance speed, efficiency, and reliability for large evolving datasets.
  • Build and operate MLOps frameworks that improve the velocity, quality, observability, and reliability of machine learning development and products.
  • Create frameworks and tooling that improve data documentation comprehensiveness, quality, maintenance, and discoverability.
  • Build and maintain Sift, an agentic data exploration and analysis tool for data access and decision-making.
  • Build and maintain data platforms supporting streaming and batch ingestion, ETL pipelines, data permissions, data discovery, and user-facing products.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of professional software development experience, including building and operating data pipelines that feed customer-facing products.
  • Hands-on Apache Spark experience writing, tuning, and debugging batch or streaming jobs at scale.
  • Experience deploying and operating containerized services and batch jobs.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and testing.
  • Preferred: 4 or more years of professional software development experience focused on data-intensive systems.
  • Preferred: knowledge of AWS services including S3, IAM, EC2, and MSK, plus job instrumentation with metrics, logs, and alerts.
  • Preferred: experience with Parquet on object storage, AWS Glue, Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake, Kafka, Apache Flink, Spark Structured Streaming, and Apache Airflow.
  • Preferred: experience deploying services on Kubernetes with Docker and building data platforms for user-facing products.
  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work environment; most US-based positions can be performed remotely unless otherwise noted.
  • Competitive compensation and an exceptional benefits package.
  • Flexible vacation and paid time off.
  • Employer-matched 401(k) plan.

Salary: $135k - $185k/yr

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