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.
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About the Role:
We are looking for a Lead Data Engineer to help us continue improving the architecture, enhancing, and maintaining the Data Platform.
Day to Day:
- Lead design, development, and operations of a Big Data platform in AWS environment that is secure, scalable, robust, and cost effective.
- Ensure scalability of pipelines in both data volume and variety of data sources
- Provide technical leadership, establish standards and patterns for re-use
- Drive data quality across the organization; develop best practices for Data Engineering.
- Partner with architecture, Infosec, and development teams across the enterprise to establish a strong relationship and trust for prioritizing and delivering projects on time
- Participate in code reviews and mentor junior level developers
What you bring to the table:
- 8+ years of experience as a data engineer working with a modern tech stack
- Expertise Spark, SQL, and Python
- Strong knowledge of various AWS services
- Experience with databases and data modeling
- Track record of architecting, designing, and deploying high performance systems with reliable monitoring and logging practices
It would be great if you also had:
- Proficiency in Airflow
- Experience with Scala
- Proficiency with Databricks
- Knowledge of container services (Docker/Kubernetes)
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