Remote Senior Engineer III

Summary

The job is for a Data Engineer at Chartbeat, a company that provides insights to enterprise content creators. The role involves working with large-scale data systems and microservices using technologies like Kubernetes, Spark, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Python, and Scala/Java.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a member of the technical staff at a data-intensive engineering company
• Track record of having made significant contributions to large-scale engineering projects
• Significant Spark development and performance optimization experience
• Advanced Python skillset and, ideally, some experience with either Scala or Java
• Experience working on customer-facing products, ideally in enterprise SaaS
• Bias toward collaborative working styles (e.g. XP/pairing or mob programming)
• Some experience with large-scale distributed datastores such as ElasticSearch, Flink, or similar
• Hands-on experience with relational databases such as MySQL and/or Postgres

Responsibilities

• Design, implementation, and support of large-scale data processing pipelines and microservices using Kubernetes, Spark, Kafka, and ElasticSearch, among other technologies
• Programming in Python and sometimes Scala, and Java
• Engineering mentorship through collaborative planning, design, and development
• Owning mission-critical software systems and working with Product Management and your teammates to define and execute on the future vision for the related product surface areas
• Participation in the backend team on-call rotation

Preferred Qualifications

• Passion and enthusiasm about writing well-thought-out code
• Demonstrable track record of having quickly mastered new technologies
• The ability to prioritize tasks, work independently, and respond to emergent issues accordingly
• Good intuition for design decisions supporting system uptime and performance

Benefits

Strong interpersonal communication skills