Software Engineer

Job Description

Who are you?
• You strive to automate tedious work rather than pushing buttons daily to keep things running
• Talent matters but so does curiosity, inventiveness, and being tenacious.
• You have expertise in data engineering but don't mind crossing the streams with other colleagues on the team.
• You have strong and well-formed ideas that are weakly held; you can discuss, listen and participate in a passionate debate.
• You create code that is understandable, simple, and clean, and want to frame it and hang it next to your desk with pride.
• Given context, you're capable of self-direction.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and shifting contexts.
• You enjoy exploring new technologies and taking them for a spin.
• Your work makes your team members more accurate, faster and frees up their time and helps them explore greater challenging analysis.
• You are quick to admit a mistake

What do you know?
• Experience with HP Vertica is a plus but experience with other MPP DBs will suffice
• Knowledge of data warehouse techniques that will make our systems awesome
• Well versed in database administration
• Knowledge of NoSql DBs, Spark, Athena, Hadoop and other large data tech is a plus

Know how to work with analytics people and contexts
• Team-based software development tools and best practices

What will you do?
• Deveop and administer our database and data storage environments
• Build software and social glue between engineers, data scientists, product managers, and other analytics teams
• Make our data more valuable to our stakeholders and customers
• Keep our data stores up and running
• Build data expertise and own data quality for the awesome pipelines you build
One more thing...
• BS or equivalent in Computer Science. MS degree would be good.
• Minimum of 5 years experience
• Willing to move a few miles from a so cal beach

Influence
• You are well respected and able to provide expertise to your team and others

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rez417-3-141-244-153-42 in your application.