Staff Data Engineer

Boulder, Colorado

About Sovrn

Every interesting company solves essential problems for other people. Sovrn is a Software and Data business that helps Open Web businesses remain independent. We help them understand their business better, operate more efficiently, and make and keep more money.

  • We believe in the freedom and free flow of information.
  • We believe the Open Web is the largest source of this information.
  • We believe in helping Open Web businesses be and remain Independent.

Through Software products and Data solutions, we help our customers:

  • Understand their business better, so they can make better decisions.
  • Operate their business more efficiently, so they can invest in what matters most.
  • Make (and Keep) more money, so they control their own destiny.

About the Job

The Data Solutions team manages the end-to-end lifecycle of Sovrn’s data assets, operating a high-volume public API and Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) feeds for B2B customers. They focus on maintaining and evolving the data platform, with a strong emphasis on architecture, transformation, availability, governance, and ensuring critical insights are accessible to internal leaders. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance data architecture, troubleshoot issues, and ensure the integrity and efficiency of our data ecosystem, requiring strong problem-solving skills and expertise in managing data pipelines (ELT).

What You’ll Be Doing:

  • Lead architecture design, table definition, metric consistency, data modeling, and implementation of big data solutions and analytics applications.
  • Work with the latest big data and analytics technologies to break down complex deliverables using industry leading big data design strategies.
  • Leader for governance of business-critical product data sets within Sovrn’s data warehouse and ensure their readiness for data analysts and other internal business users.
  • Architect components and configurations required for data pipeline implementation in AWS and Databricks.
  • Architect data pipeline metrics to monitor performance, accuracy, and availability.
  • Enable a team to research, implement, and evolve methods to process our data.
  • Optimize data processing and data access to business intelligence tools.
  • Work across the organization to enable business growth and development through data services and data models.
  • Spot and diagnose stability issues and author improvements.
  • Lead the developers with the security team to implement and maintain robust data security measures.
  • Ensure compliance with relevant data governance and privacy regulations.

The successful candidate will have:

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience and a passion for learning
  • Strong scala and python skills with an expert understanding of backend and data engineering design patterns
  • A deep understanding of big data processing environments such as Spark and Databricks.
  • Demonstrated experience with data processing using Spark in a production environment.
  • Proven experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow and MWAA.
  • Experience working in the Cloud Computing ecosystem. We use AWS heavily, but we are open to GCP, Azure, etc. 
  • Experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
  • Deep understanding of relational databases, big data tables, and noSQL databases.
  • Able to triage, debug, and permanently fix complex and convoluted data processing issues.
  • Possesses a mature understanding of the product domain and architecture.
  • A strong individual contributor that can define and architect features required by the business and product.
  • Learning to apply industry best practices, design principles, and design patterns.
  • Executes on defined features of scope to achieve team goals and commitments.
  • Sets standards and best practices around team conventions and precedent for solving recurring problems.
  • Demonstrates an aptitude for writing clean, testable, readable, maintainable, quality code.
  • Experiments and takes calculated risks around proof of concept and greenfield development, ensuring the team makes the best possible decisions when solving problems.
  • Can set the standard and dictate the process for clear documentation and application coding processes.
  • Desire for professional growth opportunities and to be in a dynamic learning environment
  • Ability to efficiently multi-task and to work cooperatively and collaboratively with all levels of employees to maximize performance, creativity, problem solving and results
  • A creative yet analytical mindset with strong problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • Quick to willingly jump in and help others when they are struggling with issues.

Location: This position is designated as hybrid, based in our Boulder, Colorado office. Applicants should be able to commute to our Boulder location as required. #LI-Hybrid

We understand that no candidate is perfectly qualified for any job. Experience comes in different forms; many skills are transferable; and passion goes a long way. Even more important than your resume is a clear demonstration of accountability impact, and the ability to thrive in a fluid and collaborative environment. We expect you to learn new things in this role, and we encourage you to apply if your experience is close to what we're looking for.

Sovrn Core Values: Candid, Customer Empathy, Learning, Scrappy, Second Order Thinking

Compensation and Benefits

The base pay range for this position is $165,000 to $200,000 annually. In addition to the base salary, the total compensation package includes bonus, equity, and benefits. Actual earnings may vary depending on the candidate's direct experience, skills, industry knowledge, and location.

Sovrn offers a full slate of benefits from competitive salaries, stock options, medical, dental and vision coverage, short and long term disability, life insurance,11 paid holidays, flexible vacation, commuter benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, and a paid parental leave program.

Equal Opportunity Employer 

Sovrn is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, parental or pregnancy status, marriage and civil partnership, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodations will be made to meet the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act and will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. 

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Sovrn does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or Sovrn employees. Sovrn is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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