Senior Data Engineer

People Data Labs; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock

Unlimited PTO

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Wellness stipend

Remote-friendly

Job summary

People Data Labs is seeking a senior Data Engineer to build scalable data pipelines and an entity resolution framework. You will work with Spark, SQL, AWS and Databricks, contributing to data quality and scalable ingestion at scale.

You will tackle undefined data problems, push data quality, and collaborate with a high-autonomy team in a remote-friendly environment. A quantitative degree is preferred and strong Python/SQL skills are required.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of industry experience with strategic technical problem solving.
• Strong software development fundamentals.
• Experience with Python.
• Expertise with Apache Spark (Java/Scala/Python).
• Experience with SQL.
• Experience building scalable data processing systems.
• Experience using Airflow, dbt, or Dagster.
• Knowledge of modern data design, storage patterns and partitioning.
• Experience with Databricks and cloud services (AWS preferred).
• Experience with data warehousing and data lakehouse patterns.

Responsibilities

• Build infrastructure for ingestion, transformation, and loading large data volumes using Spark, SQL, AWS, and Databricks.
• Develop an organic entity resolution framework merging billions of entities into clean datasets.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and anomaly detection to improve data quality in production.
• Tackle largely undefined data engineering and data science problems.

Skills

Python

Strong software fundamentals

SQL

Entity resolution concepts

Education

Degree in CS/Math/Statistics/Engineering

Tools

Apache Spark

Airflow

dbt

Dagster

Databricks

AWS

Snowflake

BigQuery

Delta Lake

Job description

Note for all engineering roles: with the rise of fake applicants and AI-enabled candidate fraud, we have built in additional measures throughout the process to identify such candidates and remove them.

About Us

People Data Labs (PDL) is the provider of people and company data. We do the heavy lifting of data collection and standardization so our customers can focus on building and scaling innovative, compliant data solutions. Our sole focus is on building the best data available by integrating thousands of compliantly sourced datasets into a single, developer-friendly source of truth. Leading companies across the world use PDL’s workforce data to enrich recruiting platforms, power AI models, create custom audiences, and more.

We are looking for individuals who can balance extreme ownership with a “one-team, one-dream” mindset. Our customers are trying to solve complex problems, and we only help them achieve their goals as a team. Our Data Engineering Team is the secret sauce behind all that we do and we are looking for the best of the best. If you are looking to be part of a team discovering the next frontier of data-as-a-service (DaaS) with a high level of autonomy and opportunity for direct contributions, this might be the role for you. We like our engineers to be thoughtful, quirky, and willing to fearlessly try new things. Failure is embraced at PDL as long as we continue to learn and grow from it.

What You Get to Do

• Build infrastructure for ingestion, transformation, and loading an exponentially increasing volume of data from a variety of sources using Spark, SQL, AWS, and Databricks
• Building an organic entity resolution framework capable of correctly merging hundreds of billions of individual entities into a number of clean, consumable datasets.
• Developing CI/CD pipelines and anomaly detection systems capable of continuously improving the quality of data we're pushing into production.
• Dreaming up solutions to largely undefined data engineering and data science problems.

The Technical Chops You’ll Need

• 5-7+ years of industry experience with clear examples of strategic technical problem-solving and implementation
• Strong software development fundamentals.
• Experience with Python
• Expertise with Apache Spark (Java, Scala, and/or Python-based)
• Experience with SQL
• Experience building scalable data processing systems (e.g., cleaning, transformation) from the ground up.
• Experience using developer-oriented data pipeline and workflow orchestration (e.g., Airflow (preferred), dbt, dagster or similar)
• Knowledge of modern data design and storage patterns (e.g., incremental updating, partitioning and segmentation, rebuilds and backfills)
• Experience working in Databricks (including delta live tables, data lakehouse patterns, etc.)
• Experience with cloud computing services (AWS (preferred), GCP, Azure or similar)
• Experience with data warehousing (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, or similar)
• Understanding of modern data storage formats and tools (e.g., parquet, ORC, Avro, Delta Lake)

People Thrive Here Who Can

• Balance high ownership and autonomy with a strong ability to collaborate
• Work effectively remotely (able to be proactive about managing blockers, proactive on reaching out and asking questions, and participating in team activities)
• Demonstrate strong written communication skills on Slack/Chat and in documents
• Exhibt experience in writing data design docs (pipeline design, dataflow, schema design)
• Scope and breakdown projects, communicate and collaborate progress and blockers effectively with your manager, team, and stakeholders

Some Nice To Haves

• Degree in a quantitative discipline such as computer science, mathematics, statistics, or engineering
• Experience working with entity data (entity resolution / record linkage)
• Experience working with data acquisition / data integration
• Expertise with Python and the Python data stack (e.g., numpy, pandas)
• Experience with streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka)
• Experience evaluating data quality and maintaining consistently high data standards across new feature releases (e.g., consistency, accuracy, validity, completeness)

Our Benefits

• Stock
• Competitive Salaries
• Unlimited paid time off
• Medical, dental, & vision insurance
• Health, fitness, and office stipends
• The permanent ability to work wherever and however you want

Comp: $200,000-220,000

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