Software Engineer, Data Platform

Company: News Break
Location: Mountain View
Posted on: February 24, 2021

Job Description:

About News Break
News Break defines a new way for users to engage with local news. Since its founding in 2015, it has grown by leaps and bounds. We're the nation's largest intelligent local news platform!News Break is ranked the #1 news app on both iOS and Android with 12M+ daily active users and 25M+ monthly users (data source: App Annie).We're a Series-C startup headquartered at Mountain View, California.For more information, visit
About the Role Responsibilities

• Design and develop large scale, high-performance data processing systems in batch and/or streaming to drive News Break Ads growth and improve the ad platform.
• Design our data models and infrastructures for optimal storage and retrieval to meet critical product and business requirements. Supporting both operational needs and fast iteration in analytics and machine learning.
• Lead data engineering projects to ensure our pipelines are efficient, reliable and maintainable
• Work across teams to improve the shared data engineer tooling and evangelize best practices.
• Work with stakeholders including senior executives, products, and design teams to improve the team's productivity and quality of output.
  Requirements
  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field
  • 5+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Worked with data at the petabyte scale
  • Proficient in Python/Java/Scala
  • Experience designing and deploying high-performance systems with reliable monitoring and logging practice
  • Experience designing and deploying large data processing systems (e.g. Spark, Hadoop, Dataflow, Flink, Airflow, etc)
  • Experience designing data models and data warehouses and using SQL and NoSQL database management systems. (e.g. Hive, Impala, Presto, Delta Lake, Druid, Snowflake, etc)
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
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    Benefits:---We provide a highly competitive compensation package including base salary, bonuses, and stock options. Benefits include great Medical, Dental and Vision. A flat organization and family-like culture makes this a perfect environment to make huge impact on our product and grow your skill set.

Keywords: News Break, Mountain View , Software Engineer, Data Platform, IT / Software / Systems , Mountain View, California