Sr. Data Engineer (Spark & Scala)
Posted on: 20 Jan 2022
New York, New York
Job Description
Overview & Responsibilities:
The Showtime Product team is looking for an experienced, curious and creative Sr. Data Engineer to help us pursue answers to our increasingly interesting and complex business questions and empower our team to incorporate data-driven features and machine learning into our products, which include our standalone service SHOWTIME and our TV Everywhere service, Showtime Anytime.
In this role, you will be an integral part of our data engineering team and collaborate with our dedicated Product Analytics team, the Showtime Research and Data Strategy teams, and our in-house backend and front-end engineering groups. You will work with the rest of the data team to architect solutions and develop technologies, systems and workflows that enable our analysts and data scientists to focus on algorithms and analyses rather than on the associated engineering.
Ideal candidates will be innovative, self-motivated, a quick study, and willing to develop new skills while constantly improving existing abilities!
Responsibilities:
Develop understanding of key business, product and user questions.
Collaborate with other Product Engineering team members to develop, test and support data-related initiatives. Work with other departments to understand their data needs
Design, build and contribute to multi-step data and recommendations/personalization pipelines that we can rapidly iterate as our needs change and capabilities grow
Evolve data-dependent feature prototypes into production features that scale
Update batch pipelines to micro-batch or real-time
Streamline feature engineering, so that the underlying data is efficiently extracted
Basic Qualifications:
You have at least 3 years of relevant experience in a comparable data engineering role
You have expert-level knowledge of SQL/Spark SQL
Additional Qualifications:
You like to dive-deep on data questions to come up with effective solutions
You believe in writing code that is easy to understand, test and maintain
You thrive in a workplace that values autonomy, applauds ideas and enjoys a sense of humor
You have experience with technologies like: Scala, Spark, AWS, AWS/EMR, Java, Kafka, Groovy, Spring, Mongo, Git, Redis, Bamboo, JIRA, etc.
ViacomCBS
Manhattan, NY
ViacomCBS Inc. is an American multinational mass media conglomerate based in New York City. The corporation was formed via the merger of CBS Corporation and the second incarnation of Viacom on December 4, 2019, which were created from the split of the first Viacom in 2005. The company has interests in film, television, publishing and digital media.
The company's main assets include the Paramount Pictures film studio, CBS Entertainment Group (consisting of CBS-branded properties including the namesake CBS network, CBS Television Studios, CBS Television Stations, CBS Interactive and a 50% interest in The CW), domestic networks (consisting of U.S.-based basic and premium-tier cable television networks including MTV, Nickelodeon, BET, Comedy Central and Showtime), international networks (consisting of international versions of domestic ViacomCBS networks as well as region-specific networks including Channel 5 in the UK, Network 10 in Australia and Telefe in Argentina), Global Distribution Group (consisting of CBS Television Distribution and CBS Studios International) and publishing company Simon & Schuster.
Headquartered at One Astor Plaza in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, the company operates approximately over 170 networks and reaches approximately 700 million subscribers in approximately 160 countries.
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IndustryMedia/Entertainment
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No. of Employees12, 770+
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