Wattpad is hiring a
Data Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Data Engineer in Wattpad's Data Engineering team. The role involves improving the reliability and performance of data infrastructure, building and maintaining ETL pipelines, and working with various technologies. The candidate should have 5+ years of data engineering experience, strong Python and PySpark skills, and understanding of database fundamentals.

Requirements

• You have 5+ years of data engineering experience
• Ability to write high-quality code in Python and PySpark
• Strong understanding of database fundamentals
• Deep understanding of two or more of these technologies: Spark, Airflow, AWS EMR, AWS Glue, Sagemaker and Redshift
• Experience with batch processing and streaming systems
• Exposure and/or strong interest in Kafka or other queuing technologies

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with data scientists, data analysts, software engineers and product managers to design and evolve our existing architecture
• Build, maintain and scale our ETL pipelines to help power data science and analytical needs
• Design, build, and maintain data infrastructure systems such as AWS DMS, HBase, EMR, Redshift, S3, Kafka, Airflow while ensuring scalability, reliability, and security

Preferred Qualifications

• Passionate about security and data governance
• Experience with dbt and Looker
• Experience with kubernetes

Benefits

• Career development; we believe in mentorship and investing in your learning, supporting you to achieve your goals
• Health benefits, including vision and dental!
• RRSP Contributions (Canada), 401K Contributions (USA)
• Generous vacation and Parental Leave Top-up
• Corporate discount for gym memberships for you and your family
• Winter break shutdown and a whole lot more!