ScribbleData - Engineering Head

Your Mission:

- Develop high performant, scalable data processing systems for dealing with internet-scale data.

- Develop and deploy robust, distributed, scalable, realtime, data processing infrastructure that can support various downstream applications including reporting, analytics, user intelligence, machine learning, and decision support.

- Develop and document detailed plans for data products to conform to allocated resources and define quantifiable outcomes for the near-term, interim and future state.

- Hire, mentor, retain and grow a team of world-class data engineers and help them advance in their learning and career goals.

- Communicate clearly about engineering capabilities and limitations, and collaborating productively with customers, vendors, and business stakeholders.

Your Strengths:

- Proven record of building and managing teams of 5+ data engineers, remote or otherwise.

- 10+ years of industry experience owning and building data infrastructure including packaging, deploying and monitoring data systems.

- Having built and shipped a product at a startup will be a plus.

- Masters degree or higher in Computer Science.

- Strong system-level thinking and problem-solving skills with the ability to make architecture decisions as well as deep dive on code at the line level.

- Python implementation experience, with experience in another language like Java.

- Proficiency in designing, implementing and automating systems for data workflow management.

- Experience designing robust, scalable data architectures.

- Proficiency in developing and publishing APIs using web services.

- Proficiency in using distributed storage (e.g. S3), serverless architecture (e.g. Lambda), streaming data (e.g. Kafka), scalable search (e.g. Elasticsearch).

- Proficiency with containerization (e.g. Docker/Kubernetes), and other deployment tooling.

- Proficiency with big data technologies like map-reduce, NoSQL, Spark, HBase, Hive.

- Experience with data security protocols, data access controls, AWS/GCP/Azure security mechanisms at the data and access levels, database security, scripting attacks, API security.

- A record of published patents and/or technical publications in peer-reviewed conferences and journals will be an added bonus.

- Strong communication and collaboration skills to work with stakeholders from different backgrounds.