BuzzFeed is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to help build the infrastructure that powers our analytics products. This is a huge opportunity to be part of a growing team and help shape the way we develop, deploy, and operate production quality systems.

We offer competitive compensation with stock options, full benefits (401k matching), and tasty perks - including catered lunch twice a week, a well stocked kitchen and bagel Fridays. We host team outings and special events like music breaks and summer film series.

We have engineering wide hack weeks (http://bit.ly/bf-hack-week-video) and we deeply value open source, giving back to the community by speaking, hosting meetups and contributing to projects we benefit from.

What you'll do:

• Help drive the optimization, testing and tooling to improve data quality
• Span languages as needed, depending on the data processing framework in use
• Collaborate with other software engineers, ML experts, and others, taking learning and leadership opportunities that will arise every single day
• Work with a mix of tried and true and cutting edge technologies in a distributed ecosystem
• Strong CS fundamentals
• Build data expertise and own data quality for the awesome pipelines you build
• Architect, build and launch new data models that provide intuitive analytics to editors and engineers alike

Who you are:

• You are knowledgeable about data modeling, data access, and data storage techniques
• You take pride in designing beautiful, efficient systems and take design and code reviews seriously
• You are passionate about helping drive decisions by providing reliable, high-quality data
• Ability to write well-abstracted, reusable code components
• Experience with Go and Python

About BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed is the leading independent digital media and tech company delivering news and entertainment content to a global audience. We have offices in 19 cities around the world and more than 1500 employees including reporters, video producers, data scientists, engineers, brand strategists, and more. We fuse hard work and fun through a culture of experimentation, teamwork, equality, and humble confidence. As an employee, you’ll enjoy perks like office events, snacks, career development courses, and no work on your birthday! But most importantly, you’ll work with inspiring colleagues to build tools and create content that helps connect people all over the world.