Data Engineer IV

What We Do/Project

You’re resourceful and creative

You love challenges, and your analytical perspective helps you find problems others may miss.

“Identify, analyze, and rectify” is your mantra. Nothing is more satisfying than solving a difficult problem, and you love finding new ways to tackle issues—even if it goes against popular opinion or the way things have always been done. You’re not afraid to inject a dose of reality when needed, but you always bring alternative solutions, not excuses. You don’t know the meaning of “blocked.”

You lead by example

People request you by name when they want someone technical on their project.

You make your teams stronger by being involved. When things get tough and deadlines are tight, you keep your cool, step up, and do what’s needed. We count on you—and you can count on us.

You Play Well With Others

You believe in “one team,” regardless of what the org chart says. You rally team members to form a common alliance and use your strong communication skills and attention to detail to deliver exceptional products.

You will be a member of the team, based in Atlanta, responsible for building mission-critical applications high-revenue, high-visibility stakeholders worldwide. Our projects include advertising optimization and audience segmentation tools.

You must be a hands-on Senior Software Engineer with the knowledge, motivation, and energy to provide design and technical leadership to developers, data providers, and data consumers. You’ll directly contribute to the creation of applications, data pipelines, and data service solutions. You’ll collaborate with some of the best architects, developers, data engineers, product managers, and senior management in the industry to build cloud-based, data-rich products using Agile processes and tools.

Job Responsibilities / Typical Day in the Role

• Specify, design, and build cloud-based API solutions and components
• Engage closely with business stakeholders to deeply understand business problems and develop solutions to meet their needs
• Collaborate with development teams to provide software architecture guidance and contribute to the construction of highly scalable, highly resilient backend solutions
• Develop and modify complex, mission-critical services using TypeScript, Go, gRPC, and REST
• Develop infrastructure as code following established patterns and workflows
• Create, enhance, and execute unit tests
• Create, enhance, and execute load tests
• Create and update service monitoring alerts
• Create and enhance Grafana dashboards
• Participate in requirements analysis and provide technical direction on detailed specifications for high-complexity backend services
• Recommend process, methodology, and tool improvements in collaboration with architects to best meet requirements
• Conduct code reviews and approve pull requests
• Ensure that code produced by the project team is of high quality and efficiency
• Participate in daily stand-ups

Must Have Skills / Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Data Engineer
• Git, and either Snowflake or Databricks
• SQL and Python experience
• 5+ years of experience.
• Ability to work with Product Analysts and Staff Engineers/Architects.
• Experience working for a bigger engineering team.

Nice To Have Skills / Preferred Requirements

• Helm
• Prometheus
• Kubernetes
• Experience with cloud computing and architecture

Soft Skills

• Strong work ethic, collaboration, and communication skills

Technology Requirements

• Strong knowledge of TypeScript, REST, DynamoDB, SQL and Terraform

Additional Notes

• Sourcing remote in the US.
• No specified preferred timezone.

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