Data Engineer - USDS

Position Overview

Data Engineer - USDS
Location: San Jose

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Key Responsibilities

• Identify critical analytical problems and apply an engineering mindset to find innovative solutions with data.
• Develop expertise in the USDS data to build and own relevant pipelines/ETLs.
• Own data integrity, availability, transformation logic, and efficient data access to support the growing needs of the organization.
• Identify gaps in existing data, create data product specs, and implement data tracking.
• Incorporate automation wherever possible to improve data pipelines and analyses.
• Build and maintain documentation to ensure data accessibility.
• Be our go-to data expert and have a deep understanding of our data warehouse and data processing layers.
• Be a primary point of contact for ad hoc data requests and reporting.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Computer Science or another quantitative field.
• 5+ years of experience working with data analytics and data engineering, including experience with data cleaning and preprocessing, data analysis and dashboard development.
• Proficiency in distributed data processing using Big Data technologies like Spark/Scala, Java, Hadoop/HDFS/AWS/S3, Cassandra and Kafka.
• Proficiency in ETL, data warehousing, data modeling, data design, SQL, and NoSQL databases.
• Proactive, self‐driven and impact driven person.
• Comfortable with ambiguity; able to thrive with minimal oversight and process.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience working with data analytics and data engineering, including experience with data cleaning and preprocessing, data analysis and dashboard development.
• Proficiency in distributed data processing using Big Data technologies like Spark/Scala, Java, Hadoop/HDFS/AWS/S3, Cassandra and Kafka.
• Proficiency in ETL, data warehousing, data modeling, data design, SQL, and NoSQL databases.
• Ability to work effectively in a cross‐functional team environment.

Benefits & Perks

• Benefits: Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) savings plan with company match; paid parental leave; short-term and long-term disability coverage; life insurance; and wellbeing benefits. They also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year, and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
• Schedule: Fully in-person up to 5 days a week.