Senior Developer, Data Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Developer – Data Engineer who can help us make quick progress on data engineering projects. In this team, we are using the big data sets that our hardware systems generate in order to optimize and improve customer experience using machine learning models. We are well on our way but need a great engineer to improve our pipelines and ML-reliant products. In your first months at Tarana, you will design, build, and implement highly scalable and performant systems.
Four key deliverables:

1. Data Engineering: Develop new pipelines and optimize existing ones.
2. Data Warehousing: Improve SQL schema designs, migrate and upgrade existing schemas to new DataBricks versions, implement Unity catalogue and optimize our data models
3. Analysis and improvement: collaborate with our ML experts to improve our models and model workflows.
4. Assisting downstream users in utilizing our data warehouse for analysis 

You will work in a small team of 4-5 hands-on engineers with a passion for driving constant improvement and value to the company.

Required Experience and Skills:

• 5+ years of experience building large scale Data Pipelines 

• Strong skills in Object Oriented and/or Functional languages: Python (a must), and Scala (nice to have). We will consider C++, Java, Rust, or GoLang if you have a good understanding of Python.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Pandas, and SQL is required.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure is required
• Experience with data warehousing and end-to-end data platforms such as DataBricks is preferred. Will consider: Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift.
• Experience with open-source models, ML, AI in a production environment.
• BS in Computer Science; Masters/PhD preferred.

Note: we are looking for a great Senior Developer working with Data Engineering. We are not looking for DevOps, solely-scripting gurus, solely-data scientists, solely-model builders, or testers.
This position is 100% on-site Milpitas, CA (Bay Area). Relocation will be considered for the right candidate.

The base salary range for this position is: $180,000 to $240,000

Tarana is an equal opportunity employer!

Tarana provides competitive benefits to employees in this role including: medical, dental and vision benefits, 401K match, flexible time off, and significant equity.

Tarana is a mature, stable startup with a great culture, cutting edge technology, and proprietary hardware and software.