We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help impact how people listen to radio, how marketing and advertising industries can connect with our millions of listeners, and help drive important business decisions with a robust data platform. iHeartRadio has data problems, both big and small. This means managing extensive listening history from over 110 million users, music metadata on over 30 million tracks, data processing for 850+ broadcast stations, ad sales/impressions, and targeted advertising campaigns.

In this role, expect to build out high throughput data pipelines and work to improve the existing infrastructure. You will help improve performance, squash bugs, and increase visibility into the data ecosystem. Expect end to end ownership of your code, and ideally you enjoy reviewing pull requests. If you enjoy working with large sets of data and the challenges associated with them this is the role for

You Like:

• Designing, building and launching efficient and reliable data pipelines into production.
• Designing and developing new systems and tools to enable our consumers to understand and analyze the data faster.
• Maintaining and trouble shooting existing data pipelines.
• Experimenting with various frameworks in the Big Data ecosystem to identify the optimal approach for extracting insights from out datasets.

You Have:

• 4+ years of experience ingesting, processing, storing, and querying large datasets.
• 2+ years of experience working in the Hadoop ecosystem.
• Ability to write well-abstracted, reusable code components in Python, Java or similar language(s).
• A self-starter mentality with an attention to detail, and a passion for code correctness.
• An ability to investigate data issues across a large and complex system by working alongside multiple departments and systems.
• Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc)
• Experience with Spark, Storm, or similar
• Ideally, proven proficiency with Scala

About iHeartRadio

Here at iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia’s digital radio platform, we strive to connect fans with their favorite music and radio. We do so by developing a product that distributes the best live radio stations from across the country, offers Artist Radio (algorithmic station based on a seed artist/song the user selects), Podcasts as well as two on demand tiers of functionality: iHeartradio Plus and iHeartRadio All Access. We’re excited to have reached 110 Million registered users and we look forward to continuing to expand our reach internationally -- we’ve already arrived in New Zealand, Australia and Canada!

 iHeartMedia is an equal opportunity employer and will not tolerate discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, ethnicity, national origin, marital status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected classification or status.