Senior Data Engineer
Every year, millions of people RSVP to an eclectic variety of Meetups around the world. Activity on Meetup is growing faster than ever and by studying it, we're learning how to help members discover the Meetups that are right for them -- sparking more new ways to make their worlds come alive greater than ever before. While our team is small, our impact is amplified by the breadth of problems we get to solve and engineer every day. We are a collaborative and dedicated team seeking data engineers to join us in designing and building the future vision of Meetup.
About you:
You imagine a world more easily connected, where people come together in real life, meet, and do more of the things that contribute to their lives. You are inspired by the people you work with, sharing ideas and ways to connect multiple systems and tech together:
- Collaborate with the Machine Learning team to build performant algorithms and provide low-latency data updates that can scale to thousands of requests per second
- Develop your leadership skills while mentoring other specialists
- Collaborate with data scientists to build our interactive analytics platform supporting the Product and Strategy teams
You look to push yourself in how you think about applied machine learning, you are motivated by the challenges from engineering to machine learning, from deployment to production, and more. You're not interested in building within a silo, but democratic in team problem-solving. And what you've come to know after each day, is a renewed excitement knowing you've made a difference on a product that has the ability to transform people's lives every day.
Additional responsibilities:
- Collaborate with product and design to leverage data and algorithms to help people Meetup
- Implement machine learning algorithms in modern cloud (AWS, Google Cloud) and horizontally scalable environments (MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark)
- Recruit and present on behalf of Meetup at technical conferences and Meetups
Preferred qualifications:
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
- 5+ years work/educational experience with data engineering, machine learning engineering, or platform development.
- Develop code fluently in Scala, Java or Python
- Can evolve Avro and Parquet schemas tailored to solve specific workloads
- Hands-on experience with data warehousing, streaming architectures, machine learning pipelines and workload scheduling (Airflow)
- Fluency with both relational (MySQL, Aurora, Postgres, Redshift) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, Redis) database design and application development
- Experience with RESTful APIs
Our values:
At Meetup, we are passionate about sparking real-life communities that change lives and change the world, as such, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring and developing a diverse team.