Principal, Software Engineer (WVS Algorithms)

Job Summary:

Join our team of over 5,000 employees globally, who provide the insights through data and next generation technology that help millions of people find, buy and protect the homes they love. From the beginning, CoreLogic has been driven by a single purpose - to innovate and create solutions that solve our clients' toughest challenges in the housing market. CoreLogic is the trusted source for property intelligence, with deep knowledge of powerful economic, social, and environmental forces that promote healthy housing markets and thriving communities.

We apply that same dedication to creating a diverse and inclusive work culture that inspires innovation and bold thinking. A place where individuals can work on small teams, feel valued, and directly impact the real estate industry. We believe our team members are the best in the business, and we will continue to recruit, retain, develop and reward our most important asset - our people!

Job Description:

About CoreLogic

Join the team that powers the global real estate economy - CoreLogic is an innovative, future focused company whose vision is to deliver unique property-level insights that power the global real estate economy.

We are a $1.95 billion in sales company with more than 6,000 employees globally serving the financial services and insurance industries. We are evolving at a rapid pace and the clients we serve are challenged from every direction, which means we are growing and innovating to help drive their success. Working together, and differentiated by our superior data, analytics, and data-enabled solutions, we empower our clients to make smarter business decisions through data-driven insights. We take initiative, are fully accountable, build respect and trust, make transparency a must-and engage, include, and collaborate at every turn.

We take pride in our work and believe in cultivating a work environment that supports and values our greatest asset: our talented employees.

About Weather Verification Services and Reactor

Our Weather Verification Services (WVS) group provides industry-leading weather forensic data for a wide number of industries. We combine scientific engineering, cloud computing, and massive troves of meteorological data to provide answers for our clients when they need them most.

With data that is widely recognized as the most accurate for identifying the location and magnitude of severe weather events, our proprietary web-based GIS tool, Reactor, is utilized by insurance and mortgage industry experts to streamline catastrophe response efforts. This team is tasked with continuing to maintain and increase our lead on the competition by continuing to innovate APIs and data processing strategies that strengthen our integrations with and utility to clients. Make no mistake, your contributions to this team have a direct and positive impact on the ability for homeowners to quickly be made whole, and for communities to rebuild after disasters.

We do all this by enabling bright minds like you to come up with innovative solutions and implement them using the latest languages and frameworks along with the most cutting edge approaches to build fast, reliable, and highly-scalable APIs in the cloud (CoreLogic Expands Google Cloud Program).

About the Career

The Principal Meteorological Software Engineer for the Weather Verification Services team will be directly responsible for engineering the data ingest, processing, and delivery pipelines that we rely upon for producing state-of-the-art current, consistent, and connected proprietary meteorological data for our clients.

You will work within a team to ensure 24x7 operational excellence of our algorithms, operationalize new meteorological algorithms and the necessary data acquisition processes, and develop new techniques to derive spatial analytics from the meteorological and hazard data sets available to our team.

A successful Principal Meteorological Software Engineer has a passion for weather, is extremely well-versed in development and infrastructure practices of the meteorological industry, and exhibits extreme ownership of the data products that they are working to deliver. They should be comfortable working side by side with Business Product Managers, Science and Analytics, User Experience, Development teams to support both operational and experimental efforts within the organization. We look for people that are not afraid to identify what we are doing wrong so we can fix it, and what we are doing right so we can improve on it. Above all, we look for candidates that judge their success by the success of the team and the happiness of our customers.

What you'll do:

• Assists in management of 24x7 operations of critical computing systems and inbound/outbound data streams.
• Maintain the continuity, integrity, and security of data assets.
• Coordinate with Science and Analytics team members on R&D activities and algorithm improvements.
• Responsible for making operational and maintaining proprietary algorithms and data processes.

About the Location

The COVID-19 crisis has impacted us all in one way or another. Our teams have adjusted from our tried-and-true 100% co-located team approach to our flexible working model utilizing the latest remote collaboration tools two days a week. On the other three days, you will be immersed in a team environment focused on intense collaboration and engaging discussions with peers.

Job Qualifications:

How you Qualify

• Bachelor of Science (or higher) degree in Meteorology or Computer Science (or related field) or more than 10 years of relevant experience in computer operations and systems / data administration.
• Strong background in meteorological data interpretation and analysis
• Advanced understanding of high-availability computing environments
• More than 10 years of experience with and an advanced understanding of meteorological data and data systems, specifically:
  • Experience working with data formatted in binary, ASCII, GRIB, NetCDF, HDF, etc
  • Experience with common meteorological data distribution systems/tools such as IRADS, NOAAPort, LDM
  • Experience with Geospatial tools such as GDAL, ArcPy, etc.
• Strong working knowledge of Linux
• Strong scripting skills (bash, perl, python)
• Advanced understanding of geospatial/georeferenced datasets
• Must be well organized and have the ability to effectively multi-task and work independently

Nice to Haves

• Preference given to candidates with working knowledge of big data tools such as Cassandra, Hadoop. Plotly, Storm, BigQuery, etc.
• Preference given to candidates with experience engineering and deploying solutions on Google Cloud Platform or other similar cloud environments.
• ElasticSearch, Jenkins, Big Query, CockroachDB, Docker, Apache Air Flow
• Experience in designing and implementing large-scale event-driven architectures

Annual Pay Range:
130,000 - 160,000 USD

CoreLogic's Diversity Commitment:

CoreLogic is fully committed to employing a diverseworkforce and creating an inclusive workenvironment that embraces everyone's uniquecontributions, experiences and values. We offer anempowered work environment that encouragescreativity, initiative and professional growth andprovides a competitive salary and benefits package. We are better together when we support and recognize our differences.

CoreLogic benefits information can be found here: http://www.yourcorebenefits.com/. Qualifications, locations and experience of the individual ultimately selected for the position may impact the final actual offered compensation, which may vary from any posted range.

EOE AA M/F/Veteran/Disability:

CoreLogic is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Actionemployer committed to attracting and retaining thebest-qualified people available, without regard torace, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexualorientation, gender identity, age, disability or statusas a veteran of the Armed Forces, or any other basisprotected by federal, state or local law. CoreLogicmaintains a Drug-Free Workplace.

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