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TCGplayer is a leading online technology platform for the collectibles industry.
Staff Data Engineer
Location
Illinois + 3 moreAll locations: Illinois | North Carolina | Minnesota | Pennsylvania
Posted
173 days ago
Salary
$136K - $228.6K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Data Engineer
TCGplayer (an eBay company)
• Function as a technical leader and advisor within the data technology field at TCGplayer, nurturing the growth and progress of both the company and individual engineers • Provide technical expertise and insight as you work with other teams to develop data flow strategies and define storage needs for microservices, ensuring scalability, reliability, and alignment with system architecture • Manage cross-application projects for datastores, emphasizing security, software currency, data governance, and platform migrations • Research emerging capabilities in both the datastores used by the organization and the broader marketplace to inform long-term strategic planning in the data domain • Consult on database design for the structures within an application’s datastores and queries/aggregations against those structures, optimizing for performance and scalability • Write minimal yet effective code, primarily database queries to facilitate data management and manipulation and proof-of-concepts for suggested techniques • Guide selection of appropriate datastore technologies for new and re-platformed apps, focusing on transactional microservices and event-driven systems to meet current and future data needs
Job Requirements
- 10 years or more experience in designing datastores, data architectures, and data flows which are scalable, reliable, and efficient
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or a related field, or a combination of education and experience
- Expertise at applying written and verbal communication skills to influence through collaboration across functional roles and levels
- Significant experience designing and implementing datastores for microservices and event-driven applications
- An understanding of where various data technologies are most-effectively applied and significant personal experience with a breadth of technologies including both RDBMS and non-RDBMS platforms
- Significant experience with implementing and supporting data governance within medium-to-large organizations.
Benefits
- medical
- financial
- paid time off
- parental leave
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