Senior Platform Engineer, Data
December 3
Airflow
Amazon Redshift
Apache
AWS
Docker
ElasticSearch
Kafka
Kubernetes
Microservices
Python
Spark
Terraform
Go
Description
• Wattpad’s vision is to entertain and connect the world through webnovel stories. • Our Data Engineering team is responsible for building, maintaining, and enhancing the entire data infrastructure. • As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will design and develop scalable, high-performance data platforms. • You will work closely with engineering, data scientists, analysts, and security teams to ensure the infrastructure is reliable. • Candidates can be remote in Canada but must work to coincide with core EST hours (i.e. 9am to 5pm EST).
Requirements
• You love learning and have a growth mindset • 8+ years of experience in a prior software development role • You are highly experienced in Golang and/or Python • You enjoy both building and maintaining complex back-end systems that operate 24/7 at high scale • Interest or experience in information retrieval systems (e.g., Elasticsearch, time-series databases, vector databases) • Strong Interest or familiarity with some big data technologies such as, but not limited to, Airflow, EMR, Dataproc, AWS DMS, AWS Glue, Spark, Redshift, Flink, Kafka • You write clean, readable code that communicates its intents and methods clearly to future engineers (but you can also deal with code that isn’t and doesn’t) • You have some understanding of database fundamentals and experience working on data platforms • We value candidates with interests in DevOps or infrastructure and related technologies (e.g. Kubernetes) • We value experience planning and leading technical initiatives or projects of various scopes and sizes • You have or are currently mentoring other developers
Benefits
• Career development; we believe in mentorship and investing in your learning, supporting you to achieve your goals • Top industry health benefits, including vision and dental • Your own health/wellness account to spend each year • RRSP Contributions (Canada), 401K Contributions (USA) • Generous vacation and Maternity/Parental leave top-up program • Corporate discount for gym memberships for you and your family • Work from almost anywhere in the world for part of the year • Winter break shutdown and a whole lot more!
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