Freestar engineer teams develop cutting-edge monetization solutions for websites and mobile apps. By combining industry-leading technology, data, and massive scale, we enable busy site owners and mobile app publishers to seamlessly maximize revenue while freeing themselves of the hassles of ad operations. The result is publishers having more time to do what they do best: create content and focus on their apps.
Senior Engineer (Remote)
We’re looking for a Senior Engineer for our Data Platform Team - the product that drives our core business. As a Senior Engineer at Freestar, you'll be one of the main contributors to a talented team of developers to innovate features for our product that separate us from our competitors.
What You'll Be Doing
Run points on whole projects by recommending, prototype, build and debug data infrastructures on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with other principal and senior engineers within the team, and to mentor less experienced Data Engineers.
Demonstrate repeated delivery of project architectures and critical components that other engineers demur to you for lack of expertise.
Participate in early-stage conversation with our product development team about product / features.
Improve decision quality across the company by ensuring metrics are trustworthy, discoverable, and easily consumable.
Skills And Experience You'll Need To Have
Data warehouse modernization: building complete data warehouse solutions, including technical architectures, star/snowflake schema designs, infrastructure components, ETL/ELT pipelines, and reporting/analytic tools. Must have hands-on experience working with batch or streaming data processing software (such as Beam, Airflow, Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Kafka, PubSub).
4+ years of experience designing and implementing large-scale, complex, data-driven applications on the cloud, preferably on Google Cloud / AWS.
4+ years of hands-on experience using SQL to perform complex data manipulation
3+ years of experience modeling data warehouses
3+ years of experience building data pipelines, CI/CD pipelines, and fit for purpose data stores
Data migration: migrating data stores to reliable and scalable cloud-based stores, including strategies for near zero-downtime.
Experience writing software in one or more languages such as Python, Java, Scala, etc.
Experience with systems monitoring/alerting, capacity planning and performance tuning
Enjoy analyzing and organizing rapidly-changing business data to support product and business solutions
Nice to have Qualifications: *
Experience working with Google Cloud data products (CloudSQL, Spanner, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Dataproc, BigQuery, Dataprep, Composer, etc)
Experience with IoT architectures and building real-time data streaming pipelines
Experience operationalizing machine learning models on large datasets
Demonstrated leadership and self-direction -- a willingness to teach others and learn new techniques
Demonstrated skills in selecting the right statistical tools given a data analysis problem
Comfortable interacting across multiple teams and management levels within the organization
Previous background in the ad tech or media landscape (linear, digital, or social) is a plus
Why You Want To Work With Us
Full-Time, Salaried Position
Working remotely
Generous Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits
401K with company match, vested immediately
The opportunity to be part of something high value, high impact, and high growth...Who doesn't love that!
Freestar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Technology, Information and Internet
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