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Senior Software Engineer - Data Pipeline

Signal Sciences, now a part of Fastly, is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with strong back-end skills, who also works with data flows and data modeling, making sure data is flowing across the board and building out models.

You will be architecting highly scalable data integration and transformation platform processing a high volume of data under defined SLA. You will be creating and building the platform that includes ingestion and transformation of data, data governance, machine learning, analytics, and consumer insights.

Our tech stack includes Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, ElastiCache/Redis, MongoDB Atlas, AWS S3, Datadog, Go, and RPC.

What You'll Do

• Developing sequencing data pipelines and/or data science platform
• Responsible for building and managing end-to-end data pipelines and operations from ingestion and integration through delivery for the data products
• Build cross-functional relationships with Business Stakeholders, Architects, Data Scientists, Product Managers and IT to understand data needs and deliver on those needs
• Oversee the design, building, and launching of new data models and data pipelines in production
• Guide the development of data resources and support new product launches
• Manage discussion of product-oriented analysis in meetings with clients and partners; comfortable speaking to executives
• Primary data liaison for stakeholders to drive transformation and to democratize use of data
• Consolidate the fragmented data across the company and provide simplified access to data for the stakeholders, internal users as well as external partners
• Support compliance and auditing through a single gateway for data exchange
• Stay abreast of technology development in retail and other industries
• Act as a sounding board on testing, experimentation, target audience profiling and consumer insights that analyze the relationship between customers, products, partners, conversions, engagement and revenue, and drivers
• Work with multiple complex and disparate datasets to enable data delivery through various means and APIs to evaluate performance and amalgamate information to derive strategic insights and recommendations
• Establish the core data foundation and common data lake to enable data-driven decisions
• Support delivery of scalable data products 

What We're Looking For

• Software development experience
• Exceptional skills in at least one high-level programming language (Java, Scala, Go, Python or equivalent)
• ETL and ELT pipelines
• Data processing and job orchestration
• Implementing analytics pipelines to assess machine learning model results
• Setting up data and cloud environments to make data science more efficient
• Quickly learning new tools
• Strong understanding of ELK Stack 
• Database experience including MongoDB
• Experience with Container technology and AWS services including S3, Amazon ECS
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional partners and solely manage projects and decisions 

Why Fastly?

• We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
• We love distributed teams. Fastly’s home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. In fact, 50% of our employees work outside of SF! An international remote culture is in our DNA.
• We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits like up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave, options for free medical/dental/vision plans, and an open vacation program that enables our folks to take the time they need to recharge (some benefits may vary by location).
• We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.
• We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.

We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply!

Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment.  

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