Sr Data Engineer

Job Description

Overview & Responsibilities:

The Showtime Product team is looking for an experienced, curious and creative Sr. Data Engineer to help us pursue answers to our increasingly interesting and complex business questions and empower our team to incorporate data-driven features and machine learning into our products, which include our standalone service SHOWTIME and our TV Everywhere service, Showtime Anytime.

In this role, you will be an integral part of our data engineering team and collaborate with our dedicated Product Analytics team, the Showtime Research and Data Strategy teams, and our in-house backend and front-end engineering groups. You will work with the rest of the data team to architect solutions and develop technologies, systems and workflows that enable our analysts and data scientists to focus on algorithms and analyses rather than on the associated engineering.

Ideal candidates will be innovative, self-motivated, a quick study, and willing to develop new skills while constantly improving existing abilities!

Responsibilities:
• Develop understanding of key business, product and user questions.
• Collaborate with other Product Engineering team members to develop, test and support data-related initiatives. Work with other departments to understand their data needs
• Design, build and contribute to multi-step data and recommendations/personalization pipelines that we can rapidly iterate as our needs change and capabilities grow
• Evolve data-dependent feature prototypes into production features that scale
• Update batch pipelines to micro-batch or real-time
• Streamline feature engineering, so that the underlying data is efficiently extracted

Basic Qualifications:
• You have at least 3 years of relevant experience in a comparable data engineering role
• You have expert-level knowledge of SQL/Spark SQL

Additional Qualifications:
• You like to dive-deep on data questions to come up with effective solutions
• You believe in writing code that is easy to understand, test and maintain
• You thrive in a workplace that values autonomy, applauds ideas and enjoys a sense of humor
• You have experience with technologies like: Scala, Spark, AWS, AWS/EMR, Java, Kafka, Groovy, Spring, Mongo, Git, Redis, Bamboo, JIRA, etc.

ViacomCBS is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g4w611-13-58-252-8-42 in your application.