Senior Data Platform Engineer

Job Description

As a Data Platform Engineer, you will be part of the team responsible for developing and supporting a set processes and systems that empowers teams across Salsify to collect, process, and drive impact using their data.

Salsify’s data needs are rapidly growing, with internal users running thousands of complex queries on our data lake every day, scanning petabytes every month across a rapidly growing number of datasets. Engineers on the Data Platform Team have an outsized impact across all of Salsify, helping to define the future of the business’ data capabilities that best support existing and future needs.

Our infrastructure helps teams build a better understanding of what's happening in the platform, engage customers using data, and build products and features utilizing the vast amount of data we have to drive more meaningful usage of the product.

We deeply value our engineering culture. We strongly emphasize trust, mentorship and collaboration. We care about building the right thing, the right way, and having fun while we do it. Every member of our team has the freedom and responsibility to make Salsify a great place to work.  From architecting and designing to building elegant, scalable software, Salsify empowers our engineers to innovate while solving challenging problems.

How You'll Make an Impact:

• Define processes, engineer interfaces and tools that make it easy for teams and users within Salsify to collect, process, store and consume data.
• Collaborate with the product teams to define and build internal and customer-facing data products. You’ll help with the design, development and operationalization of data pipelines.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams on data processing projects and data applications, providing guidance on data modeling, data quality, handling large-scale data, data pipelining, and on implementing these projects using our data infrastructure.
• Using DataOps principles, improve and expand our data infrastructure, with a focus on observability, reliability, security and quality.

You'll Enjoy This Role If You Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field, or equivalent experience. 
• Practical experience in data modeling, analysis of large data sets, data pipelines and orchestration, ETL, data lakes, data warehousing, and data engineering tools and platforms.
• Knowledge of core and analytics AWS services such as S3, Athena, Redshift, EMR, Spark
• Excellent SQL skills; practical knowledge of Python, Java, or Scala.

What We Have for You:

• Competitive Salary
• Equity
• Unlimited Vacation
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (Multicare)
• Life Plan
• Meal Allowance
• Referral Bonuses
  
  
  

  Salsify’s mission is to empower brand manufacturers to win on the digital shelf.

  Helping brand manufacturers to win online is what we do. Our culture is who we are. We are empowered. We are positive thinkers. We take action. We care deeply. These values have driven Salsify’s growth and earned the company numerous top workplace awards.

  We are headquartered in Boston and have hubs in Lisbon (Portugal) and Sydney (Australia) and remote offices around the globe. If you are excited to work in a fast-paced environment with a team that values agility, curiosity and passion, we want to hear from you!

  Salsify loves a good success story and it would be our privilege to help write yours! We recognize that talent and potential come in all forms and that years of experience does not guarantee job effectiveness or leadership potential. Our hiring process involves recognizing a person’s achievements, subject matter expertise, and passion, not just check marks next to a job description. If you have an interest in our roles please do not hesitate to apply - we would be happy to speak with you!

  Salsify is committed to being an equal opportunity employer. We believe that diverse perspectives yield strong and happy teams. Our employees and customers win when we have a variety of opinions and experiences. If you have a disability, require religious accommodation or if there is anything we can do to make you more comfortable during our recruitment process, please let us know at talent@salsify.com.

   

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