Senior Data Engineer, Platform

We are looking for our first data engineer: a senior platform data scientist/engineer to lead our data platform and pipeline building efforts.

The ideal candidate will build and maintain a robust, scalable and sustainable enterprise data platform. He/she will be well-versed in the best practices of data warehousing but be flexible enough to think outside the box whenever necessary. The Data Engineer should be no stranger to high-scale systems with complex data models and large amounts data coming from various sources.

The role is in Sunnyvale; California and reports to Director of Engineering 

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and maintenance of a scalable data pipeline
• Integrate and deploy machine learning algorithms and (near) real time analytics on the data platform and pipeline
• Productionize reports, visualizations on our teacher and parent portals that capture how a child is learning
• Integrate various data sources into one big database – usage from games and playsets with sales, CRM, marketing  
• Gather requirements, scope, architect, develop, build, release, and maintain data oriented projects for all parts of our organization, considering performance, stability, and an error-free operation
• Identify and resolve pipeline issues and discover opportunities for improvement
• Work in a collaborative environment: meetings, iterative development and design and code review sessions
• Help evaluate new tools and technologies to keep technology stack at the cutting edge
• Help debug critical issues in complex designs or coding schemes
• Monitor existing metrics, analyze data, and partner with other internal teams to solve difficult problems

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or a related field and relevant experience
• 3+ years of data engineering experience
• Strong software development skills including programming languages, system architecture and agile development process.
• Strong experience in many of the following areas:
  
  • Modern, object-oriented programming languages: Java, C++, Scala, Ruby, …
  • Programming frameworks: Spring, MVC, NodeJS, …
  • Web programming technology: JavaScript, HTML5, …
  • Scripting languages: Python, Perl, …
  • UNIX systems and development
  • Databases: Mongo, NoSQL, …
  • REST-compliant API’s, SOA,
• Cloud platform expertise: AWS preferred
• Experience with Postgres and MongoDB
• Excellent communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• You have built a data pipeline and the infrastructure required to deploy machine learning algorithms and real-time analytics in low latency environments
• Experience with Tableau, including report and dashboard development
• Understanding of build systems, and other software configuration tools such as Jenkins and Rundeck
• Experience with Postgres
• Previous start-up experience
• Have worked on shipping product
• Additional skills that add value to our company (technical or domain)
• A passion for our product space and a desire to improve the lives of others

Please email jobs@squarepanda.com if you are interested in this position.