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Senior Data Engineer Job Description
OVERVIEW CoStar delivers real-time, verified commercial real estate data that helps clients confidently spot great opportunities and make smart choices ahead of competitors. By combining the power of CoStar's independent research organization - the industry's largest - with global data delivery, software, and application solutions, clients can act on opportunities with confidence. The Analytics team is responsible for the development of CoStar's customer-facing Real Estate Analytics products. We think big, creating innovative data-intensive applications that take the vast amount of data collected by our CoStar Research teams to create a fast, reliable and intuitive analytics platform for our customers. We are a collaborative group with a mix of big data, API/platform and front-end skills, and we are growing rapidly to help invent the future of Real Estate Analytics. We are searching for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join our team and help us build the next generation of Analytics tools at CoStar. We have the industry's largest set of Commercial Real Estate property data, which lets us create innovative products while solving challenging data engineering problems, such as high-volume data ingestion, data cleansing, real-time modeling/publication and high-performance, high-availability consumption of all this information. This position is in our San Diego, CA office and has the opportunity for hybrid work with up to two days remote per week. Four day work weeks are also an option for those applicants that are interested. RESPONSIBILITIES- Designing, building, testing and deploying scalable, reusable and maintainable applications that handle large amounts of data.
- Taking full ownership of your work, from development and testing, to eventual deployment and support in production.
- Collaborating with other engineers, product owners, designers, and leadership.
- Becoming a trusted team member in matters of technical architecture, design and code.
- Advocating for evolution and improvement - both technical and non-technical - within our teams. Includes new tech, tools and best practices.
- Gaining a deep understanding of the CoStar business, including the Analytic products.
- Bachelor's degree
- A demonstrable track record of building and launching successful products that leverage terabytes of data
- 5+ years of deep database engineering experience
- 3+ years in data pipeline engineering experience
- Ability to analyze technical requirements and design new architectures, data models and ETL strategies
- Hands-on professional experience with AWS SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with integration products like Glue, Lambda, AWS Data Pipeline, and/or Database migration services a plus.
- Expertise database design, complex T-SQL programming, performance tuning and index analysis
- Deliver work products that meets specifications, are free of defects, and have optimal performance
- Define Database Architecture and Development best practices
- Facilitate discussions among database developers to exchange ideas and introduce new database technologies
- Evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends and best practices that can be leveraged to strengthen CoStar's technology platform and development practices.
- Willingness to take an active role in mentoring other developers
- Performance tuning of Postgres data queries
- Experience using AWS services such as EC2, Glue, CloudWatch, Step Functions, etc.
- Experience using Kafka
- Knowledge and/or experience working with Databricks/Spark
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
- Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
- Commuter and parking benefits
- 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, prepared foods, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks
- ID: #43776016
- State: California San diego 92101 San diego USA
- City: San diego
- Salary: USD TBD TBD
- Job type: Permanent
- Showed: 2022-07-02
- Deadline: 2022-08-30
- Category: Et cetera