Senior Data Engineer

Job Description

(Remote) Senior Data Engineer
**This is a 100% remote job opportunity**

Showtime Networks Inc. (SNI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Paramount, owns and operates the premium service SHOWTIME®, which features critically acclaimed original series, provocative documentaries, box-office hit films, comedy and music specials and hard-hitting sports. SHOWTIME is available as a stand-alone streaming service across all major streaming devices and Showtime.com, as well as via cable, DBS, telco and streaming video providers. SNI also operates the premium services THE MOVIE CHANNEL™ and FLIX®, as well as on demand versions of all three brands. SNI markets and distributes sports and entertainment events for exhibition to subscribers on a pay-per-view basis through SHOWTIME PPV®. For more information, go to www.Sho.com.
Our team

The Showtime Product team is looking for an experienced, curious, and creative Senior 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 design 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. The right person for this role will be innovative, self-motivated, quick to study, and willing to develop new skills while constantly improving existing abilities!

Day-to-Day
• Develop an understanding of key business, product, and user questions.
• Collaborate with other Product Engineers to develop, test, and support data-related initiatives. Work with other teams 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
• 3+ years of experience in a comparable data engineering role
• Expert-level knowledge of SQL/Spark SQL

Additional Qualifications:
• You like to dive deep into 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.

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

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gxq0qz-18-119-17-207-42 in your application.