Data Engineer, Palo Alto
$110,000–$180,000 year
On-site · Palo Alto, California, United States
Job Summary
Rhombus’ Data Engineers design and implement data engineering activities on topical, mission-driven projects that inform the national security agenda. They analyze, build, and maintain data infrastructure and processing systems, develop code to automate data ingestion, architect data repositories and pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and aggregation, review architecture and improve data governance, quality, and metadata management, extract and analyze raw data via APIs, SQL Stored Procedures, or Python scripts, develop scripts to convert data into usable formats, and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of analysts, data scientists, data engineers, developers, and data consumers to scale and operate data platforms and deliver results. They apply SDLC practices, communicate status to leadership, and work in a fast-paced environment.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Data Analytics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems/Sciences, or other relevant area (or equivalent experience) and at least 3 years of professional experience, or a Master’s degree with strong academic project experience and one year of work experience.
- Experience with 1 or more programming and scripting languages, with a strong focus on Python, Pandas and Numpy. Other languages include: Shell, PERL, Java, C/C++/C#, Scala, etc.
- Experience with 1 or more of the following relational, noSQL and/or file based storage (e.g. MYSQL, MongoDB, SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres, Hbase, DynamoDB, etc.)
- Experience building and maintaining ETL data pipelines
- Experience with software development life cycle including testing, documenting, delivery and support
- Working knowledge of AWS/cloud technologies
- Experience using query optimization as well as data modeling techniques.
- Familiarity with machine learning frameworks (such as TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn, etc.)
- Bias for action: willingness to take ownership and drive tasks to completion
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
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