Software Engineer II, Data

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What To Expect In This Position

• Design, communicate, and develop solutions to complex problems
• Evaluate technical choices and their tradeoffs objectively, ensuring the best path forward for the team
• Write robust, maintainable, and readable code
• Identify opportunities to improve our codebase or reduce the complexity of our architecture
• Build data services for batch and real-time data processing
• Enhance monitoring tools for data pipelines’ health and data quality
• Create and enhance internal tools used for data review and augmentation
• Work with a full stack of technologies, including API services, databases, scheduled workers, queuing infrastructure, AI models, UI frontends, ELT pipelines, text search infrastructure, and more!

What Sets You Apart

• 3-5+ years of professional experience as an individual contributor in the software development industry, with a focus on backend or data engineering
• Strong SQL skills and understanding of relational databases (especially PostgreSQL or MySQL)
• Significant experience designing and developing within a networked architecture, using APIs and/or message-based communication
• Proficiency with a version control system, especially git
• Proven ability to both work independently and as part of a collaborative team
• Have experience with a successful working relationship with Product + UI/UX teams
• Experience working with automated test and/or build systems
• Proficiency in Python preferred
• Experience running production services on Linux preferred
• Familiarity with a Cloud computing platform (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc) preferred
• Experience with containerization tools (especially Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus
• Experience with document-based stores (NoSQL, JSONB, Elasticsearch) is a plus
• Experience with Airflow is a plus
• Experience writing and maintaining code in PHP is a plus
• Familiarity with video and audio conversion tools like ffmpeg, yt-dlp is a plus