Senior Data Engineer

About Spokeo:

Join our mission to make the world more transparent with data.

Spokeo is a people search engine that helps over 18 million monthly visitors reconnect with friends, reunite with families, and protect against fraud. Additionally, our 12 billion records and over 250 million unique profiles help business professionals locate people and assets, research subjects in criminal investigations, and more.

Founded in 2006, we have grown into a remote-first company with nearly 200 dedicated employees and an average tenure of 4.5 years. Find out why we were named a “Best Company” for 2023 by Comparably for Women, Compensation, Happiest Employees, Company Perks & Benefits, and Work-Life Balance, as well as “Best CEO” for co-founder Harrison Tang.

About this Opportunity

As a Senior Data Engineer at Spokeo, you will develop, optimize, and improve our data systems such as ETL data, pipeline, 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:

• 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.

• 2+ years of development experience in highly scalable, distributed systems and cluster architectures using AWS.

• 5+ years of hands-on programming experience with Python.

• 5+ years of professional experience working in big data ecosystems, Spark is required; PySpark is preferable.

• 3+ years of experience with SQL, schema design, and dimensional data modeling.

• 2+ years of professional experience working with dataflow orchestration tools, such as Airflow.

• 2+ years of experience with non-relational databases (e.g., DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, etc.).

• 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.

Spokeo extends written offers to candidates who successfully complete their selection process. Spokeo’s offers include a base salary, participation in a company bonus program, stock options, and comprehensive benefits. The final offer will depend on several factors, including marketplace competition, job level, and the candidate’s experience and skills.

Privacy Notice for Candidates:

Spokeo is an equal-opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status. Spokeo fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from everyone help us grow, innovate, create the best products, and remain relevant in a rapidly changing world.

Recruiters or staffing agencies: Spokeo is not obligated to compensate any external recruiter or search firm that presents a candidate or their resume or profile to a Spokeo employee without 1) a current, fully executed agreement on file, and 2) being assigned to the open position (as a search) via our applicant tracking solution.

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