Data Engineer II - (Remote - US)

Job Description

Mediavine is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join our engineering team. We are looking for someone who enjoys solving interesting problems and wants to work with a small team of talented engineers on a product used by thousands of publishers. Applicants must be based in the United States.

About Mediavine

Mediavine is a fast-growing advertising management company representing over 10,000 websites in the food, lifestyle, DIY, and entertainment space. Founded by content creators, for content creators, Mediavine is a Top 20 Comscore property, exclusively reaching over 125 million monthly unique visitors. With best-in-class technology and a commitment to traffic quality and brand safety, we ensure optimal performance for our creators.

Mission & Culture

We are striving to build an inclusive and diverse team of highly talented individuals that reflect the industries we serve and the world we live in. The unique experiences and perspectives of our team members is encouraged and valued. If you are talented, driven, enjoy the pace of a start-up like environment, let’s talk!

Position Title & Overview:

The Data & Analytics team consists of data analysts, data engineers and analytics engineers working to build the most effective platform and tools to help uncover opportunities and make decisions with data here at Mediavine. We partner with Product, Support, Ad Operations and other teams within the Engineering department to understand behavior, develop accurate predictors and build solutions that provide the best internal and external experience possible.

A Data Engineer at Mediavine will help build and maintain our data infrastructure. Building scalable data pipelines, managing transformation processes, and ensuring data quality and security at all steps along the way. This will include writing and maintaining code in Python and SQL, developing on AWS, and selecting and using third-party tools like Rundeck, Metabase, and others to round out the environment. You will be involved in decisions around tool selection and coding standards.

 Our current data engineering toolkit consists of custom Python data pipelines, AWS infrastructure including Kinesis pipelines, Rundeck scheduling, dbt for transformation and Snowflake as our data warehouse platform. We are open to new tools and expect this position to be a part of deciding the direction we take. 

Essential Responsibilities:

• Create data pipelines that make data available for analytic and application use cases
• Develop self-healing, resilient processes that do not require constant care and feeding to run smoothly
• Create meaningful data quality notifications with clear actions for interested parties including other internal teams and other members of the data and analytics team
• Leading projects from a technical standpoint, creating project Technical Design Documents
•  Support data analysts and analytics engineers ability to meet the needs of the organization
• Participate in code reviews, understanding coding standards, ensuring test coverage and being aware of best practices
• Build or implement tooling around data quality, governance and lineage, in the dbt framework and Snowflake but external to that as needed
• Provide next level support when data issues are discovered and communicated by the data analysts
• Work with data analysts and analytics engineers to standardize transformation logic in the dbt layer for consistency and ease of exploration by end users
• Enable analytics engineers and data analysts by providing data modeling guidance, query optimization and aggregation advice

Requirements

Location: 

• Applicants must be based in the United States

You Have: 

• 3+ years of experience in a data engineering role
• Strong Python skills (Understands tradeoffs, optimization, etc)
• Strong SQL skills (CTEs, window functions, optimization)
• Experience working in cloud environments (AWS preferred, GCS, Azure)
• An understanding of how to best structure data to enable internal and external facing analytics
• Familiarity with calling APIs to retrieve data (Authentication flows, filters, limits, pagination)
• Experience working with DevOps to deploy, scale and monitor data infrastructure
• Scheduler experience either traditional or DAG based
• Comfortable working with multi-TB cloud data warehouses (Snowflake preferred, Redshift, Big Query)
• Experience with other DBMS systems (Postgres in particular)

Nice to haves:

• Experience with web analysis such as creating data structure that support product funnels, user behavior, and decision path analysis 
• Understanding of Snowflake external stages, file formats and snowpipe
• Experience with orchestration tools particularly across different technologies and stacks
• Experience with dbt
• Knowledge of Ad Tech, Google Ad Manager and all of it’s fun quirks (so fun)
• The ability to make your teammates laugh (it wouldn’t hurt if you were fun to work with is what I’m saying)
• Familiarity with event tracking systems (NewRelic, Snowplow, etc)
• Experience with one or more major BI tools (Domo, Looker, PowerBI, etc.)

Benefits

• 100% remote 
• Comprehensive benefits including Health, Dental, Vision and 401k match
• Generous paid time off 
• Wellness and Home Office Perks 
• Up to 12 weeks of paid Parental Leave 
• Inclusive Family Forming Benefits 
• Professional development opportunities 
• Travel opportunities for teams, our annual All Hands retreat as well as industry events

Mediavine provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

We strongly encourage minorities and individuals from underrepresented groups in technology to apply for this position.

At Mediavine, base salary is one part of our competitive total compensation and benefits package and is determined using a salary range.  Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including business needs, experience, level of responsibility and qualifications. The base salary range for this role at the time of posting is $115,000 - $130,000 USD/yr.