Lead Data Engineer - Python (5-9 yrs)

Role & Responsibilities :

- Build highly scalable, available, fault-tolerant distributed data processing systems (batch and streaming systems) processing over 100s of terabytes of data ingested every day and petabyte-sized data warehouse and elasticsearch cluster.

- Build quality data solutions and refine existing diverse datasets to simplified models encouraging self-service.

- Build data pipelines that optimize on data quality and are resilient to poor-quality data sources.

- Own the data mapping, business logic, transformations, and data quality.

- Low-level systems debugging, performance measurement & optimization on large production clusters.

- Participate in architecture discussions, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects.

- Maintain and support existing platforms and evolve to newer technology stacks and architectures.

Ideal Candidate :

- Proficiency in Python and PySpark.

- Deep understanding of Apache Spark, Spark tuning, creating RDDs, and building data frames.

- Experience in big data technologies like HDFS, YARN, Map-Reduce, Hive, Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Presto, etc.

- Experience in building distributed environments using any of Kafka, Spark, Hive, Hadoop, etc.

- Good understanding of the architecture and functioning of distributed database systems.

- Experience working with various file formats like Parquet, Avro, etc., for large volumes of data.

- Experience with one or more NoSQL databases.

- Experience with AWS, GCP.

- 5+ years of professional experience as a data or software engineer.