Data Platform Engineer, Sovrn
$110-130k
+ Stock options
Office located in Boulder, CO
Advertising tools & services for content creators
Be an early applicant
Advertising tools & services for content creators
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$110-130k
+ Stock options
Office located in Boulder, CO
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower independent content creators and publishers to grow their businesses and achieve the attention they deserve.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is passionate about building data infrastructure, has strong problem-solving skills, and can manage data pipelines (ELT)
- A solid understanding of big data processing environments such as Spark and Databricks
- Demonstrated experience with data processing using Spark and Python in a production environment
- Proven experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow and MWAA
- Experience working in the Cloud Computing ecosystem. We use AWS, but we are open to GCP, Azure, etc
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation is preferred
- Familiarity with relational databases, big data tables, and DynamoDB
- Able to triage, debug, and fix simple issues
- Possesses a general understanding of the product domain and architecture
- A strong individual contributor focused on delivering features
- Learning to apply industry best practices, design principles, and design patterns
- Executes on defined features of simple scope to achieve team goals and commitments
- Knows and follows team conventions and precedent for solving recurring problems
- Demonstrates an emerging aptitude for writing clean, testable, readable, maintainable, quality code
- Experiments and takes calculated risks with guidance from more experienced engineers
- Ability to clearly document and communicate application code
- Adds context and clarity to their work through documentation, as well as keeping existing documentation up-to-date
- A creative yet analytical mindset with strong problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Quick to willingly jump in and help others when they are struggling with issues
- Candidates must currently live in, or are willing to relocate to the Boulder/Denver area
What the job involves
- The Data Platform team maintains and evolves Sovrn’s data platform and data processing, focusing on architecture, transformation, availability, governance, and ensuring critical insights are accessible to internal leaders
- We serve as experts on ETL, data warehousing, and business intelligence tools, driving collaboration across engineers, data scientists, business analysts, and product managers
- As a Data Platform Engineer, you will work with cross-functional teams to enhance data architecture, troubleshoot issues, and ensure the integrity and efficiency of our data ecosystem
- Participating in architecture design, table definition, metric consistency, data modeling, and implementation of big data platform and analytics applications
- Work with the latest big data and analytics technologies and become familiar with standard big data design strategies
- Provide governance of business-critical product data sets within Sovrn’s data warehouse and ensure their readiness for data analysts and other internal business users
- Implement components and configurations required for data pipeline implementation in AWS and Databricks
- Implement data pipeline metrics to monitor performance, accuracy, and availability
- Research, implement, and evolve methods to process our data
- Optimize data processing and data access to business intelligence tools
- Work across the organization to enable business growth and development through data services and data models
- Troubleshoot stability issues and work on improvements
- Work with the security team to implement and maintain robust data security measures
- Ensure compliance with relevant data governance and privacy regulations
Our take
The monetization of online content creation can be very lucrative but requires time, resources and expertise outside of writing. Passionate writers who focus on storytelling and creating inspiring content may waste valuable time attempting to develop their business, and hiring somebody to do this is often too expensive for independent writers.
Sovrn tackles this in a smart way by providing writers with simple-to-use tools that take the stress out of monetization. It works with publishers and advertisers to provide opportunities to passionate writers, allowing them to focus on excelling at their job rather than dealing with distribution, monetization and operations - all of which Sovrn is able to handle.
The startup claims to be able to drive higher revenues and scale a publishing business, at the same time as allowing writers to focus on what they do best. It has seen significant investment that will enable it to pursue acquisitions and support the further expansion of its platform with more capabilities to be added in the future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2022
$35.6m
LATE VC
Jul 2022
$36m
SERIES C
Total funding: $132.6m
Company benefits
- Work at a company that values your strengths. See the results of your actions. There are no barriers at Sovrn
- First-class health benefits, wellness options, and a host of life-improvement perks that help you be the best you
- Retirement benefits, 401k matching, and stock options show we’re equally dedicated to financial health
- In-house barista, catered lunches and breakfasts
- Volunteer opportunities
- Flexible vacation and a focus on mental and physical health mean you’ll have time for life outside the office
- Learn new skills. Pursue great ideas. Take on new opportunities and thrive in a workplace that rewards your efforts
Company values
- Secord Order Thinking: Second Order Thinking considers the consequences of a decision and requires one to ask: "and then what?"
- Scrappy: Scrappy means embracing constraints and obstacles as a path to finding the simplest and most direct answer
- Candid: Candid means speaking and asking questions with honesty and humility. Candid looks for the truth
- Customer Empathy: Customer Empathy means we understand our customers' challenges, problems, and wants
- Learning: Learning is the single most important trait of successful people, trams, and organizations. Learning is how we improve
Company HQ
Boulder, CO
Articles
Leadership
Walter Knapp
(CEO)Having studied at the University of Colorado, they worked as a Partner at Cambridge Technology, and Novell Ventures for a combined 6 years. They worked as SuSE Linux at Novel, COO of Lijit Networks, and COO of Federated Media Publishing before leaving in January 2014 to found Sovrn.
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