Senior Software Engineer – Data Integration

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We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to focus on Systems & Infrastructure software engineering for the Data Integration team (a part of our Big Data Engineering domain).

Some of the key initiatives for this team includes:

• Creating a unified connector library framework for seamless exchanges with third parties.

• Simplify data integration by building efficient discovery services, CLIs, and portals to achieve higher engineering productivity and velocity.

• Build infrastructure through leverageable libraries, plugins, and extensions in order to streamline and standardize data ingestion and regression.

This position will be based in our Sunnyvale, CA office.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement large-scale distributed systems

• Build frameworks that validate functionality and performance of large scale offline systems

• Optimize the performance of these systems by profiling and identifying bottlenecks

• Build systems that are secure and compliant

• Improve observability and understandability of the various systems

• Work with different teams within the Big Data Platform group to leverage their work and vice versa

• Work closely with the open-source community to participate and influence cutting edge open-source projects (e.g. Apache Iceberg, Apache Gobblin, Apache Spark)

Basic Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent technical experience

• 2+ years of relevant industry experience

• Hands-on experience with distributed systems/backend API’s.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in software engineering, including work with distributed systems.

• At least one year of professional experience working with Java.

• Prior work with Hadoop (or similar) Ecosystem (MapReduce, Yarn, HDFS, Hive, Spark, Presto)

• Experience in data management, relational databases, and/or large-data environments

• Proficient with systems design

• Experience mentoring junior engineers.

You will Benefit from our Culture:

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