Senior Staff Engineer, Big Data

Lab Summary:

Samsung Research America is seeking a talented, highly motivated individual to join our Big Data Lab, you will be responsible for designing and building a big data platform that will keep user data secure, scale efficiently based on business needs, and significantly improve the user's experience with Samsung products. You will also work on efficient software and hardware implementations on current and/or upcoming Samsung product platforms. The Big Data Lab is a key part of Samsung’s global R&D effort and aims to help companies operate more efficiently and adapt to changing needs of customers to solve most critical business problems and have direct impact on future Samsung products reaching hundreds of millions of users worldwide.

Position Summary:
Member of a highly collaborative software engineering team to design and build a global scale big data platform with cutting-edge technologies to interact with Samsung customers. Multiple roles at various levels are available depending on your level and experience, you may have opportunities to lead big projects with a multi-people team.

Position Responsibilities:

• Working on developing solution and technology for big data system to multiple regions and countries
• Work with technical leads, customer executives, and partners to manage and deliver successful implementations of technical solutions, becoming a trusted advisor to decision-makers throughout the engagement
• Work with internal specialists, product, and engineering teams to package best practices and lessons learned into thought leadership, methodologies, and published assets
• Interact with global R&Ds and overseas technical stakeholders to manage project scope, priorities, deliverables, risks/issues, and timelines for successful outcomes
• Propose solution architectures and manage the deployment of cloud based big data and analytics solutions according to customer requirements and implementation best practices
• Effectively communication, collaboration with global/regional engineering teams (include HQ)

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, or 10+ years of experience with Masters’ degrees, or 7+ years of experience with PhD degrees.
• 5+ years of experience as a member of a software engineering team charged with delivering technical solutions.
• Experience of working with business intelligence tools and cloud databases 
• 2+ years of experience in one of the following domains: data privacy (data encryption/KMS/GDPR/CCPA/...), data warehouse (data schema design/optimization/SQL), batch processing (Presto/Spark/Hive/Airflow/...), realtime processing Kafka/Flink/Storm/Druid/...), GCP data stack (GCS/BigQuery/DataFlow/DataProc/PubSub/)AWS Stack (S3/Kinesis/...), etc
• For senior roles, experience in managing software engineering projects, and track records of delivering big initiatives from ideation to production with customer success
• Skills or experience to build data lake, data warehouse, and data mart