Quick take: Axios is a growth-stage startup dedicated to providing trustworthy, award-winning news content in an audience-first format. We're hiring a Senior Data Engineer to join our growing data team! 

Why it matters: As a Data Engineer, this person will collaborate with engineers, analysts, and product managers to drive forward data initiatives across mission-critical Axios products. Our Data team is made of Engineers, Scientists, and Analysts who use data-driven methodologies to inform decisions and strategy, build robust scalable products and identify opportunities for innovation across the company.

Go deeper: This Data Engineer will play a key role in building solutions to problems in an intelligent and nuanced way. In this role, you will make an impact on Axios through the following responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain developer tooling to support pyspark data pipelines
• Implement processes and systems to monitor data quality, ensuring production data is accurate and available for key stakeholders and business processes that depend on it
• Develop and maintain data platform components including: data producers and consumers, pipeline architecture, data lake, data warehouse, and Business Intelligence tooling
• Collaborate closely with fellow data team members as well as tech and product teams and company leaders 
• Support continuing increases in data velocity, volume, and complexity
• Write unit/integration tests and document work
• Perform data analysis required to troubleshoot data related issues and assist in the resolution of data issues

The details: Ideal candidate should have an entrepreneurial spirit, be highly collaborative, exhibit a passion for building technology products, and have the following qualifications:

• Experience with or knowledge of Agile Software Development methodologies
• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Strong SQL and Python development experience
• Proven experience with building systems using a microservice architecture 
• Proven experience with schema design and dimensional data modeling
• Proven experience developing pipelines utilizing event streaming data and familiarity with the Apache Kafka framework
• Practical experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Practical experience supporting Business Intelligence tooling and third-party systems
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining data processing systems
• Experience working with MapReduce and Spark clusters
• Experience detecting and reporting data quality issues
• Familiarity with Docker, CI/CD (such as Jenkins/Circle), AWS
• Experience building data visualizations and dashboards is preferred

Don’t forget:

• Competitive salary
• Health insurance (100% paid for individuals, 75% for families)
• Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
• 401K
• Generous vacation policy, plus company holidays
• Company equity
• Commuter and cell phone benefit
• A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture
• Annual learning and development stipend

Additional pandemic-related benefits:

• One mental health day per quarter
• $100 monthly work-from-home stipend
• Tele-mental health services 
• OneMedical membership, including tele-health services 
• Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers 
• Access to the Axios “Family Fund”, which was created to allow employees to request financial support when facing financial hardship or emergencies 
• Virtual company-sponsored social events