Your Impact:

Handshake is building a diverse team of dynamic engineers who value creating a high quality, high impact product. You will use your technical knowledge to drive the architecture, implementation and evolution of the data platform we are current developing. You will also be working with product teams helping millions of students find meaningful careers regardless of where they go to school, who their parents know, or how much money they have.

We're focused on building a data platform that will ensure all teams are capable of creating data-driven features, and all sides of the business have access to the right data to make the correct decisions.

Your Role:

• Working closely with product managers and product engineers to ship data-driven features
• Closely interact with data scientists and analysts to build pipelines and warehousing solutions
• Translate business requirements into data models that are easy to understand and used by different disciplines across the company
• Design, implement and build pipelines that deliver data with measurable quality under the SLA

Your Experience:

• You prefer taking projects from inception to completion and are outcome oriented. 
• You have a consistent track record of designing and implementing scalable, robust data pipelines, data services and data products.
• You have experience working with tracking systems, click streams and session analytics.
• You have experience providing technical leadership and mentoring other engineers for best practices on data engineering.
• You are proud of your craft, and enjoy and value clean code that scales to keep large teams productive.
• You have the ability to navigate between big-picture and implementation details.

Bonus Areas of Expertise

• You have experience debugging and creatively solving problems in the data landscape
• Experience developing data marts and creating and enforcing access/governance
• Experience in Spark or other distributed data applications
• Experience with any of the following:
  • Airflow
  • dbt
  • Google Cloud Platform data technologies (BigQuery, DataFlow, etc)

Compensation Range

$157,997-$234,938