Senior Data Engineer II

About the Team

The Careem Data Platform team’s mission is to provide a platform to abstract big data complexities and enable fast, reliable and secure access to data. As a member of this team, you will be at the forefront of fulfilling this mission. You will be working with the top talent of the region, leveraging modern big data tools and techniques to solve the region’s day to day problems, on top of our own in-house data platform, serving users in real-time. 

This role will be part of the Data processing and computation platform team. We are heavily invested in open source technologies like Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache Trino etc. You would also have an opportunity to contribute and collaborate with the open source community. 

What you'll do

1. Bringing an innovative and creative mindset to data engineering challenges to develop a modern data platform with efficient reusable components
2. Design, architect, solutioning, implement and test rapid prototypes that demonstrate value of the data and present them to diverse audiences.  
3. Your focus will be on making code more efficient to run, optimizing resources across the cluster, and speeding up the compute workloads we face
4. Continuously improve our engineering processes, tests, and systems that allow us to scale the code base and productivity of the team
5. Collaborate with teams globally and operate in a fast paced environment
6. Responsible for creating reusable and scalable data pipelines.  

What you’ll need

1. 6+ years of professional software development experience.
2. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or other related technical field.
3. Extensive software development experience with Scala, Java, or similar programming languages. 
4. Prior experience developing distributed systems or working on similar projects. 
5. Proficiency in using cloud-native Big Data technologies
6. Demonstrated experience with software engineering and design best practices.
7. Appreciation for creating maintainable, performant, and high quality software as part of a fun, high-performing global team.
   

Nice to have

1. Prior experience with cloud control plane (AWS, GCP etc) or database internals such as query optimization
2. Experience contributing to open source software
3. Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is preferred.