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Staff Data Engineer
Location
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Posted
1 day ago
Salary
$130K - $150K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Data Engineer
MissionWired
• Solving our unique data-lake challenges: transforming and seamlessly normalizing highly varied partner datasets (such as donation data); • Design robust batch-processing pipelines capable of extracting and loading massive datasets from a variety of internal, external, and public sources; • Developing processes for data mining, data modeling, and data production; • Leveraging modern technology knowledge to champion evolving industry trends, updated design patterns, and engineering excellence across the team; • Autonomously scope, design, and execute complex data projects from day one, turning ambiguous requirements into clear, decisive technical plans; • Developing robust testing and monitoring systems for scheduled processes; • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to support their data infrastructure needs; • Joining each and every one of your colleagues in creating an inclusive workspace.
Job Requirements
- 5 years of professional software engineering experience;
- Eagerness to mentor and technically guide engineering teams;
- Experience guiding technical decision making;
- Extensive, hands-on experience building distributed data pipelines using Apache Spark;
- Knowledge of how to build and optimize data pipelines, architectures and data sets with the ability to drive additional learning for knowledge gaps;
- Experience managing data warehouses and/or data lakes;
- Intellectual curiosity to innovate on ways to solve data management issues;
- Passion, energy, and excitement for progressive and philanthropic causes.
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid premiums for platinum-level medical plan on a national health care network
- 100% employer-paid life insurance and short term disability
- 50% employer-paid vision and dental insurance
- 401(k) with 3% employer contribution
- 20 vacation days in addition to 12 paid holidays, sick days, bereavement leave, and a volunteer day off.
- Paid parental leave at 100% of your salary
- Financial support for reproductive and transgender care
- Flexible telecommute and remote work policies
- Company issued Mac products for home offices
- Cell phone service reimbursement, meal and ride-share reimbursement, and other perks available
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