Data Engineer

Company:  Aura
Location: Boston
Closing Date: 16/10/2024
Salary: £100 - £125 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description

Aura is on a mission to create a safer internet. In a world where our lives are increasingly online, Aura's category-defining suite of intelligent digital safety products help millions of customers protect themselves against digital threats, and that number is growing rapidly. This is an exciting phase at Aura, and our team of over 400 people worldwide is guided by a leadership slate that's successfully grown startups into multi-billion dollar organizations.

Come build with us!

About The Role

At Pango, data is at the core of most of our decision making and our Data Platform is one of the pillars supporting the company's growth. The data that pass through the Platform are used by both internal and external customers. We are looking for a Data Engineer to help us continue improving the architecture, enhancing, and maintaining the Data Platform.

Day to Day

  • Design, build, deploy, and support scalable pipelines (scaling in both volume and variety of data sources) confirming data privacy and security requirements are met.
  • Administer and maintain the infrastructure powering our analytics and data assets by continuously monitoring and improving system performance and cost.
  • Provide technical mentorship to other team members ensuring knowledge is disseminated and high quality assets are delivered.
  • Drive data quality across the organization; develop best practices and frameworks for driving high quality work.
  • Define and manage SLAs for data sets and processes running in production.
  • Evaluate, recommend, and build prototypes of new data engineering technology.
  • Participate in technical architecture discussions and peer code reviews.
  • Manage data migrations/conversions and troubleshoot data processing issues, assisting other team members when necessary.
  • Other duties and responsibilities as needed.

What you bring to the table:

  • 5+ years of experience in the data space with several years in Data Engineering working with a modern, cloud-hosted tech stack; AWS experience critical.
  • Proficiency in Spark and Distributed Computing, Databricks a plus.
  • Track record of architecting, designing and deploying high performance systems with reliable monitoring and logging practices. Strong Knowledge of Python and SQL, Scala a plus.
  • Experience with job orchestration technologies like Airflow.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to work asynchronously across multiple time zones; open to shifted work hours to accommodate team meetings.
  • Knowledge of CI/CD, version control and the command line.
  • Experience working with third party APIs for ingestion and integration.
  • Experience with Stream-processing systems (Kafka, or equivalent).

It would be great if you also had:

  • Knowledge of container services (Docker/Kubernetes).
  • Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform.

Remote

Aura is proud to be an equal employment workplace. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, veteran status, or any protected category. Beyond equal employment opportunity, Aura is committed to being an inclusive community where all feel welcome.

Aura is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please let your Talent Acquisition Partner know.

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