DATA ENGINEER
ZypMedia has built an enterprise grade comprehensive advertising platform – from the ground up – specifically for some of the nation's largest broadcasters and media companies to plan, buy, execute, and manage programmatic campaigns for their local clients across all digital channels, including over-the-top (OTT). Our products are used by thousands of users at some of the leading media companies and our platform processes 100 billion ad calls daily deciding every 100ms on which ad to show to which user.
We are looking for a Data Engineer who is self-motivated, a problem solver and passionate about data engineering.
The Data Engineering team builds data pipelines for large amounts of data and organizes reporting data for end users and clients. This person will be part of a small data engineering team that works on solutions that power reports that are used by thousands of users.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Construct and maintain high volume, efficient, reliable data pipelines for our programmatic buying, analytics and data science systems
- Extract data from various reporting platforms for analysis
- Ensure the resulting data is organized appropriately so reporting queries from users and applications can run against this data
- Tune performance of existing data systems
- Ensure high-availability of data sources for our programmatic buying platform.
- Collaborate with others on the team and various stakehholders
- Define and manage all data sets
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS REQUIRED:
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent
- 5+ years experience in software development; 2+ years in data engineering
- 2+ years experience with Spark and Scala; Experience with manipulating large datasets and building efficient data pipelines
- Experience solving day to day data related issues
- Experience leading/managing a team of skilled data engineers
- Well versed in SQL
- Superb communication, organization, and problem-solving skills
- Experience in scalable, high performance systems
- Experience with Linux and AWs
BONUS POINTS:
- Experience with agile development methodologies, CI/CD, scalable infrastructure
- Knowledge of AdTech
- Significant startup company experience