Staff Data Engineer, Checkr
$166-230k
Salary varies depending on location. Offers equity
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2-3 days a week in office
Automated background checks
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Automated background checks
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$166-230k
Salary varies depending on location. Offers equity
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a fairer future by designing technology to create opportunities for all.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of designing, implementing and delivering highly scalable and performant data platform
- Experience building large-scale (100s of Terabytes and Petabytes) data processing pipelines - batch and stream
- Experience with ETL/ELT, stream and batch processing of data at scale
- Expert level proficiency in PySpark, Python, and SQL
- Expertise in data modeling, relational databases, NoSQL (such as MongoDB) data stores
- Experience with big data technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Iceberg, Datalake, and AWS stack (EKS, EMR, Serverless, Glue, Athena, S3, etc.)
- An understanding of Graph and Vector data stores (preferred)
- Knowledge of security best practices and data privacy concerns
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Experience/knowledge of data processing platforms such as Databricks or Snowflake
What the job involves
- We're seeking an experienced Staff Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team. This team plays a crucial role in our mission by developing and maintaining scalable data platforms for fair and safe hiring decisions
- As a Staff Data Engineer on the Data Platform team, you'll work on Checkr’s centralized data platform, critical for the company's vision. The centralized data platform is the heart of all key customer facing products. You will work on high-impact projects that directly contribute to the next generation products
- Architect, design, lead and build end-to-end performant, reliable, scalable data platform
- Be an independent individual contributor who can solve problems and deliver high-quality solutions without oversight and a high level of ownership
- Mentor, guide and work with junior engineers to deliver complex and next-generation of features
- Bring a customer-centric, product-oriented mindset to the table - collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders to resolve product ambiguities and ship impactful features
- Partner with engineering, product, design, and other stakeholders in designing and architecting new features
- Experimentation mindset - autonomy and empowerment to validate a customer need, get team buy-in, and ship a rapid MVP
- Quality mindset - you insist on quality as a critical pillar of your software deliverables
- Analytical mindset - instrument and deploy new product experiments with a data-driven approach
- Architect, lead and build a performant, reliable, scalable data platform
- Monitor, investigate, triage, and resolve production issues as they arise for services owned by the team
- Create and maintain data pipelines and foundational datasets to support product/business needs
- Design and build database architectures with massive and complex data, balancing with computational load and cost
- Develop audits for data quality at scale, implementing alerting as necessary
- Create scalable dashboards and reports to support business objectives and enable data-driven decision-making
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in production environments
Our take
Checkr addresses the unpleasant and time consuming process of background checks so that companies using on-demand employees can make safer, more informed hiring decisions in less time. Background checks are a critical part of the hiring process, and CEO Daniel Yannisse noticed that they were painfully slow, resulting in loss of work for candidates and productivity downturns for employers.
Before Checkr entered the market in 2014 with its innovative AI technology and a solid $50m in venture capital funding, companies were waiting upwards of two weeks for their checks. Checkr substantially reduces this time frame and has grown to receive a $5 billion valuation.
Checkr has accelerated growth by making several highly advantageous acquisitions of competitor companies GoodHire and Inflection. As the world of work embraces diversity and inclusion, the company announced an end-to-end service for candidates wishing to expunge their criminal records, furthering the company’s ‘fair chance’ mission and clearing 1000s of candidates for free since 2021. New products launched at the end of 2023 include Checkr Pay (providing access to payment right after a shift) and Checkr Onboard (unified onboarding processes), exemplifying how Checkr is keeping pace with a rapidly changing, flexible, and mobile-first workforce.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Sep 2019
$160m
SERIES D
Total funding: $554.6m
Company benefits
- Parental leave
- Stock optoins
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive Health Plans | We cover 100% of insurance premiums and offer generous parental and family leave
- Competitive Compensation | We offer competitive salaries and meaningful equity
- A Variety of Food and Snacks | Our culinary team serves a rotating menu for lunch each day, along with unlimited snacks and drinks
- Wellness Programs | We invest in the holistic well-being of every team member through education reimbursements, onsite massages, and physical therapy
- Flexible Paid Time Off | We want you to take the time you need to relax and recharge
- Fitness and Public Transport Reimbursement | We’ll cover your commute and help you stay active with our onsite gym or fitness provider of choice
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jonathan Perichon
(Co-Founder)After an MSc in Computer Science, Jonathan worked as a Software Engineer at Mogreet and deliv for a combined year and a half. He co-founded Checkr in May 2014, serving as CTO since.
Daniel Yanisse
(Co-Founder & CEO)Daniel worked as a Software Engineer at Mogreet and Deliv before co-founding Checkr.
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