Senior Data Engineer
Location
Washington
Posted
14 days ago
Salary
$172.4K - $215.5K / year
EnglishCloudETLJavaKubernetesPythonSparkSQLGo
Job Description
• Design, build, and operate scalable, production-grade data pipelines and curated datasets powering ads optimization and ML systems.
• Own end-to-end offline data flows from raw event ingestion to feature-ready datasets ensuring correctness, reproducibility, and SLA compliance.
• Develop and maintain large-scale batch and streaming workflows (Python / Java / SQL) with strong focus on performance, cost-efficiency, and reliability.
• Contribute to our Feature Store platform, including collaboration with the high-throughput online serving layer (Go-based services).
• Translate complex product and monetization logic into durable, extensible data models serving analytics and machine learning use cases.
• Improve observability, validation frameworks, and data quality standards across pipelines.
• Drive architectural decisions and engineering best practices within the Feature Platform team.
Job Requirements
- Strong Data Modeling & SQL Expertise: deep experience designing scalable, well-structured data models. Strong understanding of partitioning, schema evolution, and performance optimization.
- Production-Grade Pipeline Experience: hands-on experience building and operating large-scale ETL/ELT systems using Python, Java, SQL, or similar technologies in distributed environments.
- Distributed Processing: experience with frameworks such as Spark or Flink. Strong understanding of parallel computation and performance tuning.
- Systems Awareness: understanding of how offline data systems integrate with online serving layers (e.g., feature stores, APIs, low-latency systems).
- Experience with Go is a plus, particularly for collaboration on high-throughput feature serving services.
- Modern Cloud Infrastructure: experience working in cloud-native environments, containerized systems, Kubernetes, and orchestration tools.
- Ownership & Reliability Mindset: strong focus on data correctness, observability, and long-term maintainability. Ability to independently drive complex initiatives.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
- Commute subsidy
- Employee stock ownership
- Competitive retirement/pension plans
- Generous vacation and personal days
- Support for new parents through leave and family-care programs
- Office food snacks
- Mental Health and Wellbeing programs and support
- Employee Resource Groups
- Global Employee Assistance Program
- Training and development programs
- Volunteering and donation matching program
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