We are looking for a Staff Data Engineer to design data infrastructure, build processing pipelines, and mentor engineers, focusing on high performance and analytics.
About Us
Wizard is the top-performing AI Shopping Agent, delivering the best products from across the web with unmatched accuracy, quality, and trust.
The Role
We are seeking a Staff Data Engineer with deep expertise in Spark to join our data team. This is a hands-on technical role for someone passionate about building scalable data systems, mentoring engineers and shaping data strategy. You’ll architect systems that power high performance batch and real time data processing, enable advanced analytics and accelerate our AI initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and evolve scalable, distributed data infrastructure across cloud platforms
- Build and maintain real time and batch data processing pipelines supporting analytics and AI/ML workloads
- Develop and manage integrations with third party e-commerce platforms to expand our data ecosystem
- Ensure data availability, reliability and quality through monitoring and automated auditing
- Partner with engineering, AI and product teams on data solutions for business critical needs
- Mentor and support data engineers, establishing best practices and code quality standards
You
- 5+ years of software development and data engineering experience with demonstrated ownership of production grade data infrastructure
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Deep expertise scaling Spark in production (Databricks, EMR, etc)
- Strong understanding of distributed computing and modern data modeling for scalable systems
- Proficient in Python with experience implementing software engineering best practices
- Hands-on experience with both relational (MySQL / PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra) databases
- Strong communicator with experience influencing cross functional stakeholders
Nice to Have:
- Experience working in early-stage, high-growth environments
- Familiarity with MLOps pipelines and integrating ML models into data workflows.
- Passionate about problem-solving with a proactive approach to finding innovative solutions.
The expected salary for this role is $208,000 - $235,000 depending on experience and level
Top Skills
Cassandra
Databricks
DynamoDB
Emr
MongoDB
MySQL
Postgres
Python
Spark
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