Data Engineer I

Ziff Davis; Maryland; Remote; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology marketplace is looking for a skilled Data Engineer to join their data engineering team. You will manage data pipelines, collaborate with product teams, and enhance data processes. Required qualifications include proficiency in Python, experience in data pipeline management, and a relevant degree. Enjoy benefits like unlimited flexible time off and a remote-first work culture.

Benefits

Unlimited flexible time off

Volunteer paid time off

Wellness and mindfulness programs

Employee stock purchase program

Qualifications

• 2 - 4 years of experience with data pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with Python.
• Familiarity with structured and unstructured datasets.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product teams on software design.
• Develop scalable ETL processes.
• Analyze data to identify improvement opportunities.

Skills

Data pipelines management

SQL and query optimization

Python

Problem-solving skills

Experience with data models

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Snowflake Data Warehouse

AWS

Matillion

Redshift

Job description

We are looking to hire an experienced Data Engineer to join our dynamic engineering team. You will be a part of a global data engineering team, spread across the various United States and India based Spiceworks Ziff Davis offices, and will play a key role in enabling our data-driven strategy.

As a Data Engineer, you’ll work closely with Product Managers, Finance and Business Analysts, Data Scientists, and Software Engineers as you help define our data development roadmap. Eager to jump into a pivotal role that's essential in enabling data-informed decisions? It’s time to apply!

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with product team and contribute to software design
• Partner or lead in the development of self-monitoring, robust, scalable, batch and streaming ETL processes
• Develop and improve the continuous integration and testing processes
• Perform root cause analysis on external and internal processes and data to identify opportunities for improvement and answer questions
• Contribute to the consolidation of our data and empower other teams to derive value from our warehouse ecosystem
• Work closely with stakeholders on the data supply side (e.g. application engineers) and data demand side (e.g., BI analysts, data scientists, product managers, and other engineering teams)
• Ensure data privacy and compliance (GDPR), as well as maintaining data dictionaries for governance purposes

What You Need

• 2 - 4 years of experience working on data pipelines and managing resulting data stores (experience with Snowflake Data Warehouse, Redshift a plus)
• Understanding of building data models, SQL and query optimization
• Hands on experience in Python
• Working on structured and unstructured datasets
• Skilled problem solver, can identify performance and data quality issues
• Academic, certification, or work experience applying analytic skill sets
• Academic, certification, or work exposure to managed cloud services (AWS preferred)
• Prior work in agile/scrum development environments a plus
• Exposure to one or more orchestration technologies a plus (Matillion, Snowflake, PySpark, Redshift, Athena, Airflow, Talend, Kinesis, Hive, Firehose, Kafka)
• Bachelor or master in engineering, computer science, or related field preferred.

Perks and Benefits of working at SWZD

• Unlimited flexible time off
• Volunteer paid time off
• Generous holidays
• Recognition Programs - yes there are multiple, AND prizes!
• Remote-first work experience and a work from anywhere culture
• Weekly coffee chats with leaders
• Wellness and mindfulness programs
• Sick days
• Bi-weekly Townhalls
• Regional holiday celebrations
• Community give-back celebrations
• Transportation Assistance for night-shift employees
• Unwavering commitment to diversity and inclusion
• Employee stock purchase program

In terms of logistics, all interviews will take place over phone or video due to our Work From Anywhere policy.

Who we are: Spiceworks Ziff Davis (SWZD) is a trusted global marketplace that connects technology buyers and sellers with the most actionable and precise intent data. We are uniquely positioned to offer tech brands unmatched visibility into accounts that are truly in-market, by leveraging our scale, quality and diversity of intent data. With unparalleled access to the world’s most influential technology buyers through a combination of first-party (Community, Tools, Editorial) and third-party intent data, SWZD is a leader in intent-backed, intelligent, omnichannel marketing.