Data Engineer, Timeout

• Do you like to discover the world's coolest cities?
• Do you love working with massive datasets and building solutions that unlock valuable insights?
• Are you passionate about cloud technologies and designing efficient data pipelines?
• Has 2+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or a similar role
• Understands the fundamentals of data warehousing, and ETL/ELT processes
• Experience with SQL and has experience with BigQuery Standard SQL
• The ability to gather and understand requirements and to translate them into appropriate data ingestion pipelines and/or database models
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts and GCP services (Google Cloud Platform) - especially BigQuery, Cloud Composer (Airflow)
• Proficient in scripting languages like Python (experience with Cloud Functions a plus)
• Thrives in a collaborative environment and communicates clearly
• Has a burning passion for data and a hunger to learn new tech
• Be commercially astute
• Either have experience at or want to dive headfirst into a fast-paced transformative company in pursuit of excellence
• Think globally
• Have excellent communication and relationship building skills
• Have a high sense of ownership, urgency and drive
• Be a team player

Desirable

• Reporting to: Scrum Master
• We are seeking a talented Data Engineer to join our team and play a key role in building and maintaining our data infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with a focus on BigQuery to unlock the insights about the coolest cities in the world (timeout.com) in combination with our food hall market business (timeoutmarket.com)
• Design, build, and deploy data pipelines on GCP, so data flows seamlessly from databases, cloud storage, and streaming services into BigQuery. Think of it as building data highways!
• Craft and optimize data models that make storing, retrieving, and analyzing data in BigQuery a breeze. Picture yourself as the data architect, shaping how information is organized
• Leverage BigQuery's built-in features (think SQL and materialized views) to transform and summarize data like a boss
• Put your problem-solving skills to the test by developing automated checks to ensure your data is always on point. Data consistency is key!
• Collaborate with product managers, data analysts, and other data enthusiasts to understand their needs and design solutions that make them cheer
• Dive deep into code reviews, tackle technical challenges head-on, and continually refine your data pipelines for peak performance