Senior Data Engineer - Dallas/California, United States

Photon is a company that has powered many Digital Experiences for the Fortune 500 for the past 20 years. They are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to work on large-scale batch pipelines and data systems, enabling critical decision-making and AI-powered capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Data Science, Product, and Engineering to collect requirements to define the data ontology for Mail Data & Analytics
• Lead and mentor junior Data Engineers to support Yahoo Mail’s ever-evolving data needs
• Design, build, and maintain efficient and reliable batch data pipelines to populate core data sets
• Develop scalable frameworks and tooling to automate analytics workflows and streamline users interactions with data products
• Establish and promote standard methodologies for data operations and lifecycle management
• Develop new or improve and maintain existing large-scale data infrastructures and systems for data processing or serving, optimizing complex code through advanced algorithmic concepts and in-depth understanding of underlying data system stacks
• Create and contribute to frameworks that improve the efficacy of the management and deployment of data platforms and systems, while working with data infrastructure to triage and resolve issues
• Prototype new metrics or data systems
• Define and manage Service Level Agreements for all data sets in allocated areas of ownership
• Develop complex queries, very large volume data pipelines, and analytics applications to solve analytics and data engineering problems
• Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and product managers to understand business problems, technical requirements to deliver data solutions
• Engineering consulting on large and complex data lakehouse data

Requirements:

• BS in Computer Science/Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience, with specialization in Data Engineering
• 8+ years of experience building scalable ETL pipelines on industry standard ETL orchestration tools (Airflow, Composer, Oozie) with deep expertise in SQL, PySpark, or scala
• 3+ years leading data engineering development directly with business or data science partners
• Built, scaled, and maintained Multi-Terabyte data sets and having an expansive toolbox for debugging and unblocking large scale analytics challenges (skew mitigation, sampling strategies, accumulation patterns, data sketches, etc.)
• Experience with at least one major cloud's suite of offerings (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Developed or enhanced ETL orchestrations tools or frameworks
• Worked within standard GitOps workflow (branch and merge, PRs, CI / CD systems)
• Experience working with GDPR
• Self-driven, challenge-loving, detail oriented, teamwork spirit, excellent communication skills, ability to multitask and manage expectations
• MS/PhD in Computer Science/Engineering or relevant technical field, with specialization in Data Engineering
• 3 years experience in Google Cloud Platform technologies (BiqQuery, Dataproc, Dataflow, Composer, Looker)