Senior Data Engineer, Samba TV

• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Python
• Have experience in Javascript or are willing to learn
• Strong skills in SQL (BigQuery or similar)
• Experience with Apache Spark
• Commercial experience with cloud computing (preferably AWS or GCP)
• Familiar with CI/CD, Kubernetes, Docker
• You should be comfortable working directly with Data Science, Analytics, and other internal consumers to bridge product requirements with Data Engineering
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to interpret and analyze data
• Strong work ethics

Desirable

• In this role, you will define, schedule, and monitor data pipelines with the objective of creating tools that improve development speed and increase visibility into the availability and properties of our growing collection of datasets
• You will work closely alongside members of the Data Science and other teams, leveraging your data expertise to help improve data models and processing algorithms while closely observing the bottlenecks in the development process to gather feedback needed to further improve our data platform tools
• You will automate existing business processes and support the visualization of key datasets
• Work with data scientists and other business partners across Europe to develop tools and frameworks to support self-service analytics
• Analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, and stability of our core systems' data collection, storage, and retrieval processes
• You will focus on the performance of individual jobs in our processing pipelines; understanding the algorithms that power them and the trade-offs and bottlenecks that affect their runtime and resource consumption
• Besides, you will have a chance to mentor members of other data teams that are eager to improve their software engineering skills; and be a role model who exemplifies coding and software design best practices