Data Engineer – Publisher Integration Engineering

Job Description

Description

Xandr’s mission is to Make Advertising Matter. We develop a technology platform that powers the real-time sale and purchase of digital & TV advertising. Our platform is engineered to provide one of the fastest, most reliable, and massively scaled advertising systems in the industry. As a transparent and independent partner for some of the largest publishers and advertisers, Xandr helps ensure that the Internet stays open and free.

As a Data Engineer on the Publisher Integrations capability, you will be responsible for creative solutions distilling data at a massive scale into insightful, actionable information for online publishers that use Xandr to drive demand.

Consider some of the problems we try to solve:

• Getting Insight: Rapidly process data on an immense scale. Create reports that drive business outcomes and optimizations. Balance granularity and business value with resource cost and efficiency.

• Grow a Mature Platform: Reduce latency and error rates. Increase uptime. Maintain speed, availability, and reliability as our client base grows.

About the job:

• Design and develop reliable, scalable and testable Map Reduce jobs and end-to-end data processing for reporting & analytics, real-time decision-making use cases

• Collaborate and communicate effectively with team members, product management, open source community members, and other stakeholders

• Build and maintain tools to automate regular testing and deployment

• Consistently optimize and improve our systems, tools, and testing

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree and 2+ years of experience in software engineering OR MS degree and 1+ years of experience (Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred)

• Proficiency with large-scale distributed data processing systems like Hadoop, MR, Hive, Presto, and distributed data stores like Vertica and Druid

• Experience building large-scale multi-TB data processing systems

• Experience supporting production systems

• Solid experience in Java/Python/Scala and SQL and proficiency with Unix tools

• Nice to have: Experience with Spark, Kafka, NoSQL databases

More about you:

• You are passionate about a culture of learning and teaching. You love challenging yourself to constantly improve, and sharing your knowledge to empower others

• You like to take risks when looking for novel solutions to complex problems. If faced with roadblocks, you continue to reach higher to make greatness happen

• You care about solving big, systemic problems. You look beyond the surface to understand root causes so that you can build long-term solutions for the whole ecosystem

• You believe in not only serving customers, but also empowering them by providing knowledge and tools