Lead Data Platform Engineer at CB Insights in Remote

As a Lead Software Engineer at CB Insights you will be part of a cross-disciplinary, self-motivated team with clear ownership and passion to form the future. Our team uses state-of-the-art technologies and writes quality code that ships often.

Our Data Engineers support critical business logic across a suite of robust services and scalable data processing jobs.

We focus on modularity and reuse where it makes sense, while ensuring that there are no constraints to delivering world-class software continuously.

The Lead Platform Engineer is a technology focused role for a hands-on coder who will have broad impact on the team and the engineering department. It is not a manager or a team lead role. Strong communication skills, adaptability and a collaborative mindset are key attributes we are looking for in a candidate.

If this sounds interesting to you, reach out and join CB Insights now!

Your Main Tasks:

• Develop features for our next generation market intelligence platform on a small Agile team.
• Consistently and frequently deliver solutions that are well-engineered, maintainable and tested within the agreed upon timeframe.
• Participate in code reviews and sprint planning, help identify opportunities, work through challenges and share knowledge with colleagues.
• Collaborate with the product team to understand business requirements.
• Mentor and guide other software engineers.

What you bring to the table:

• An experienced engineer who is passionate about coding and who has learned through several years of experience in the field
• Several years professional experience with dynamic and/or compiled programming languages (we use Go and Python)
• Very strong proficiency with relational databases, including ER modeling and performance optimization (we use MySQL, PostgreSQL, Aurora)
• Professional experience using messaging queues and streaming technologies
• Expert level experience building ETL jobs and data pipelines using one or more of the following: Spark, Kafka, SNS, SQS, NATS.io, Elasticsearch, Airflow, Pachyderm
• SaaS models and cloud services preferably AWS
• Professional experience working remote or telecommuting
• Proficiency developing in a Mac/Linux environment
• Believer in Lean and Agile values and principles for building software
• Strong attention to detail and quality
• Comfortable working with engineers that are remote as well as from the local office