Senior Data Engineer

Spokeo

• $130K — $155K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of development experience in data engineering (excludes internships and academic settings)
  • Experience handling large datasets over 100M records or multiple terabytes
  • 5+ years in scalable, distributed systems on AWS with EMR
  • 5+ years programming in Python
  • 5+ years in big data ecosystems; Spark experience required, PySpark preferred
  • 5+ years with SQL, schema design, and dimensional data modeling
  • 5+ years with dataflow orchestration tools like Airflow
  • 2+ years with non-relational databases (DynamoDB, Elasticsearch)
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a related field

Responsibilities

  • Build data pipelines to ingest, process, and load data from diverse sources
  • Automate integration of new components into data pipelines
  • Work with stakeholders and data science teams to develop data products
  • Create unit and stress tests to monitor and resolve technical issues
  • Develop tools for data analysis to derive insights and key metrics
  • Research solutions and maintain technical documentation
  • Implement best practices for data governance, quality, and ETL activities

Benefits

  • Bonus program
  • Equity plans
  • 401(k) plan
  • 100% medical/dental/vision coverage
  • Unlimited employee PTO
  • Discretionary merit-based salary increases annually
Full Job Description
About this Opportunity

As a Senior Data Engineer at Spokeo, you will develop, optimize, and improve our data systems, including ETL pipelines, storage, and entity resolution. This involves working with infrastructure built in AWS, including Airflow, PySpark, EMR, S3, DynamoDB, and more. This role will help build and improve data products, automation platform features, analytical software packages, and data pipeline orchestration tools.

What You'll Do:
  • Build infrastructure and data automation pipelines to ingest, process, and load data from various sources. Automate and integrate new components into the data pipeline.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders and data science teams to develop data products, including entity resolution and best selection, to efficiently execute product vision and strategy in alignment with organizational goals and priorities.
  • Create unit and stress-test components to monitor technical performance and ensure that identified issues are resolved.
  • Develop data analysis tools to provide data insights and capture key metrics.
  • Research solutions and maintain technical documentation.
  • Follow best practices for data governance, quality, cleansing, and other ETL-related activities.


Who You Are:
  • Required: 7+ years of development experience in data engineering within a production environment (internships and academic settings excluded).
  • Proven experience working with large datasets exceeding 100M+ records or multiple terabytes.
  • Required: 5+ years of development experience in highly scalable, distributed systems and cluster architectures using AWS and utilizing EMR.
  • Required: 5+ years of hands-on programming experience with Python.
  • Required: 5+ years of professional experience working in big data ecosystems; Spark is required; PySpark is preferable.
  • Required: 5+ years of experience with SQL, schema design, and dimensional data modeling.
  • Required: 5+ years of professional experience working with dataflow orchestration tools, such as Airflow.
  • Required: 2+ years of experience with non-relational databases (e.g., DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, etc.).
  • Required: A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a related field is required.

Working at Spokeo

Spokeo offers a bonus program, equity plans, and a 401 (k). Once a year, we do a discretionary, merit-based salary increase. Additional benefits include 100% medical/dental/vision coverage and unlimited employee PTO.

Hiring at Spokeo

We extend written offers to candidates who successfully complete their selection process. Offers will depend on several factors, including, but not limited to, marketplace competition, job leveling, experience, and skills.

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