Spokeo is a people search engine that both enlightens and empowers our customers. With over 12 billion records and 18 million visitors per month, we reconnect friends, reunite families, prevent fraud, and more.

We are looking for a Data Engineer, Analytics who has an eye for building and optimizing big data systems to join our team. Working in an AWS ecosystem, this role will work closely with the data science and analytics team to direct the flow of data within the pipeline and ensure consistency of data delivery and utilization.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build the infrastructure for data extraction, preparation, and loading of data from backend services and web browser clients to data lake for business and product analytics.
• Build and manage existing analytics tools to provide deeper insight into the pipeline and capture key metrics.
• Monitor technical performance and ensure that identified bugs are routed and resolved.
• Mentor team members on working with highly scalable distributed systems and cluster architectures and maintain up-to-date knowledge of technological advances.
• Work with large, complex SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Create and maintain technical documentation.
• Create unit and stress test scripts/modules.
• Write well-abstracted, reusable, and efficient code.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in backend software development.
• Strong scripting, programming, and SQL skills; preferably using Python, Ruby, and ANSI SQL.
• Experience with and understanding of event data collection tools like Snowplow, Segment, Google Tag Manager, Tealium, and mParticle, etc.
• Experience with and understanding of ETL tools.
• Experience with AWS services like EMR Spark, Redshift, Kinesis, Lambda, Glue, Athena, etc.
• Experience working with large data sets (billions of records).
• Strong organizational skills and detail-oriented mindset.
• BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

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Spokeo is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Spokeo fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best products and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.

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