Lead Sr. Data Engineer

Cars.com LLC; United States; Remote; USD 131,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Cars.com LLC seeks a passionate Data Engineer to build scalable systems and platforms that leverage extensive data to drive automotive innovation. In a collaborative environment, you'll work on mission-critical applications, mentor team members, and push forward the boundaries of data analytics. This role positions you to impact the automotive industry while promoting a unique team culture focused on growth and diversity.

Benefits

Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans

New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up

Generous PTO

Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in designing & developing data pipelines.
• Hands-on expertise in Big Data tools like Spark Streaming.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Build data pipelines and insights using advanced analytics and machine learning.
• Design, oversee and support mission-critical Big Data applications.
• Mentor team members and lead complex projects.

Skills

Spark

Data Engineering

Machine Learning

Data Pipelines

Collaboration

Python

Scala

AWS

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kafka

Jenkins

GitHub

Job description

Be essential at Cars Commerce

At Cars Commerce, we’re fanatical about simplifying everything about car buying and selling. We do right by our customers and consumers to better connect the industry with simplified and tierless technology to enhance, measure and drive local automotive retail. Whether through our No.1 most recognized marketplace, Cars.com, our industry-leading digital experience, Dealer Inspire, our trade and appraisal technology, AccuTrade, or our new Cars Commerce Media Network, Cars Commerce is essential for success in the automotive industry.

No one ever travels alone here: at its core, Cars Commerce is collaboration. In fact, it’s built into the very fabric of our shared values. We like to say we Rise Together – putting people at the center of what we do, from consumer to customer to community. Life at Cars Commerce makes it easy when we share the ethos to be Open to All, encouraging open-minded communication because we know diverse thinking yields better outcomes. But critical to our success is Caring to Challenge and Taking Ownership, fueling a competitive spirit in a respectful environment where we think about tomorrow but act today. At our foundation, we have integrity, Doing the Right Thing, even when it’s hard. It’s our shared commitment to these values that makes Cars Commerce a place where growth becomes not only possible, but downright unavoidable.

But don’t take our word for it. As a U.S. News & World Report Best Company to Work For in 2024, we're obsessive about the employee experience. We are among the top 20% being declared “Best” of our industry based on six critical factors that are important to employee wellbeing, like quality of pay, benefits, work life balance and more.

About You:

Data is the driver for our future at Cars Commerce. We’re searching for a collaborative, analytical, and innovative engineer to build scalable and highly performant platforms, systems and tools to enable innovations with data. If you are passionate about building large scale systems and data driven products, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities Include:

Build data pipelines and deriving insights out of the data using advanced analytic techniques, streaming and machine learning at scale

Work within a dynamic, forward thinking team environment where you will design, develop, and maintain mission-critical, highly visible Big Data and Machine Learning applications

Build, deploy and support data pipelines and ML models into production.

Work in close partnership with other Engineering teams, including Data Science, & cross-functional teams, such as Product Management & Product Design

Opportunity to mentor others on the team and share your knowledge across the Cars.com organization

Lead a team and communicate with the management, stakeholders about project status

Required Skills

Ability to develop Spark jobs to cleanse/enrich/process large amounts of data.

Ability to develop jobs to read from various source systems such as kafka, databases,API's,files etc.

Experience with tuning Spark jobs for efficient performance including execution time of the job, execution memory, etc.

Sound understanding of various file formats and compression techniques.

Experience with source code management systems such as Github and developing CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins for data.

Ability to understand deeply the entire architecture for a major part of the business and be able to articulate the scaling and reliability limits of that area; design, develop and debug at an enterprise level and design and estimate at a cross-project level.

Ability to mentor developers and lead projects of medium to high complexity.

Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Required Experience

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related degree, or equivalent practical experience

Data Engineering | 7+ years of designing & developing data pipelines or real-time applications at enterprise scale; specifically Python and/or Scala.

Big Data Ecosystem | 7+ years of hands-on experience with tools and platforms like Spark Streaming, EMR, Kafka.

Cloud | 7+ years of experience in developing Big Data applications in the cloud, preferably AWS.

4+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

2+ years experience leading data platform projects including engineering mentorship

Preferred:

Experience with developing REST APIs.

Experience in deploying ML models into production and integrating them into production applications for use.

Experience with machine learning / deep learning using R, Python, Jupyter, Zeppelin, TensorFlow, etc.

Experience with developing real time data analytics using Spark Streaming, Kafka, etc.

Be essential at Cars Commerce

At Cars Commerce, we’re fanatical about simplifying everything about car buying and selling. We do right by our customers and consumers to better connect the industry with simplified and tierless technology to enhance, measure and drive local automotive retail. Whether through our No.1 most recognized marketplace, Cars.com, our industry-leading digital experience, Dealer Inspire, our trade and appraisal technology, AccuTrade, or our new Cars Commerce Media Network, Cars Commerce is essential for success in the automotive industry.

No one ever travels alone here: at its core, Cars Commerce is collaboration. In fact, it’s built into the very fabric of our shared values. We like to say we Rise Together – putting people at the center of what we do, from consumer to customer to community. Life at Cars Commerce makes it easy when we share the ethos to be Open to All, encouraging open-minded communication because we know diverse thinking yields better outcomes. But critical to our success is Caring to Challenge and Taking Ownership, fueling a competitive spirit in a respectful environment where we think about tomorrow but act today. At our foundation, we have integrity, Doing the Right Thing, even when it’s hard. It’s our shared commitment to these values that makes Cars Commerce a place where growth becomes not only possible, but downright unavoidable.

But don’t take our word for it. As a U.S. News & World Report Best Company to Work For in 2024, we're obsessive about the employee experience. We are among the top 20% being declared “Best” of our industry based on six critical factors that are important to employee wellbeing, like quality of pay, benefits, work life balance and more.

About You:

Data is the driver for our future at Cars Commerce. We’re searching for a collaborative, analytical, and innovative engineer to build scalable and highly performant platforms, systems and tools to enable innovations with data. If you are passionate about building large scale systems and data driven products, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities Include:

• Build data pipelines and deriving insights out of the data using advanced analytic techniques, streaming and machine learning at scale

• Work within a dynamic, forward thinking team environment where you will design, develop, and maintain mission-critical, highly visible Big Data and Machine Learning applications

• Build, deploy and support data pipelines and ML models into production.

• Work in close partnership with other Engineering teams, including Data Science, & cross-functional teams, such as Product Management & Product Design

• Opportunity to mentor others on the team and share your knowledge across the Cars.com organization

• Lead a team and communicate with the management, stakeholders about project status

Required Skills

• Ability to develop Spark jobs to cleanse/enrich/process large amounts of data.

• Ability to develop jobs to read from various source systems such as kafka, databases,API's,files etc.

• Experience with tuning Spark jobs for efficient performance including execution time of the job, execution memory, etc.

• Sound understanding of various file formats and compression techniques.

• Experience with source code management systems such as Github and developing CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins for data.

• Ability to understand deeply the entire architecture for a major part of the business and be able to articulate the scaling and reliability limits of that area; design, develop and debug at an enterprise level and design and estimate at a cross-project level.

• Ability to mentor developers and lead projects of medium to high complexity.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related degree, or equivalent practical experience

• Data Engineering | 7+ years of designing & developing data pipelines or real-time applications at enterprise scale; specifically Python and/or Scala.

• Big Data Ecosystem | 7+ years of hands-on experience with tools and platforms like Spark Streaming, EMR, Kafka.

• Cloud | 7+ years of experience in developing Big Data applications in the cloud, preferably AWS.

• 4+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

• 2+ years experience leading data platform projects including engineering mentorship

Preferred:

• Experience with developing REST APIs.

• Experience in deploying ML models into production and integrating them into production applications for use.

• Experience with machine learning / deep learning using R, Python, Jupyter, Zeppelin, TensorFlow, etc.

• Experience with developing real time data analytics using Spark Streaming, Kafka, etc.

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Salary Range $131,400.00-164,250.00

Our Comprehensive Benefits Package includes:

• Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans
• New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up
• Generous PTO
• Refuel - a service based recognition program where employees receive additional paid time away to learn grow and reset
• Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Recharge Day

Learn more about our Benefits, Perks, & Culture on our LinkedIn Life Pages !

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Welcome!
At Cars Commerce, we think big, push boundaries, and rise together as a team. It’s all the challenge and energy of a job in the tech industry, backed by 25 years of proven resilience and growth as a leading consumer brand.

Imagine getting to work on a team with a bold mission to simplify everything about buying and selling cars. A culture that’s a unique mix of innovation and collaboration. Exciting training and development opportunities that empower you to take ownership of your career. For our employees, every day is an opportunity.

We’re a remote-first workplace that embraces diversity at every level. Inspired by our values, we intentionally create opportunities for our employees to grow and make an impact in our industry and local communities. Let’s move your career forward together.

About Us

Cars Commerce is an audience-driven technology company empowering automotive that simplifies everything about buying and selling cars. The Cars Commerce platform includes the flagship automotive marketplace and dealer reputation site Cars.com, innovative digital marketing technology and services from Dealer Inspire, industry-leading trade-in and appraisal technology from AccuTrade, an exclusive in-market media network, and powerful and predictive AI technologies that enable more efficient and profitable retail operations. Cars Commerce is the essential partner to stay one step ahead in automotive.