Data Engineer

Job Description

Great interviews are engineered. Come help Karat make every interview predictive, fair and enjoyable.

The status quo for technical interviewing doesn’t meet the needs of candidates or hiring companies. Haphazard interview experiences, subjective evaluations, and lack of capacity and expertise mean too many companies miss their hiring goals and miss out on great software engineers. At Karat, it's our mission to create better outcomes for companies and candidates by making every interview predictive, fair, and enjoyable.

Karat conducts first-round technical interviews on behalf of companies including Indeed, Atlassian, Intuit, Peloton, The New York Times and Wayfair. We do this through a community of Interview Engineers who are equipped with Karat's interviewing platform, battle-tested questions, and data-informed best practices.

The result is highly predictive and fair interviews at scale that candidates truly enjoy. Karat has amassed the largest and most robust dataset of structured interview intelligence to produce never-before-seen hiring analytics.

As the world continues to transition to virtual work, and the fairness of hiring practices in the tech industry come under greater scrutiny, Karat is uniquely positioned to be a valuable, strategic partner as companies transition to 100% remote hiring.

Founded in 2014, Karat is a privately held and venture-funded company based in Seattle.

Data Engineer

Our Data Engineers work directly with analysts, scientists, and stakeholder teams to build the infrastructure, reporting, and product features that power insights at Karat. Data Engineers at Karat design and build the data infrastructure needed to make interviews more predictive. They also engineer the systems and processes needed to derive meaning from this data. Working on the Data and Delivery engineering teams you will shape the future of how our company ingests, analyzes, and talks about data.

The ideal candidate for this role is comfortable designing and building software for real customers, manipulating data and wielding statistics, providing technical and product recommendations, working cross-functionally to support ideas from inception to launch, and capable of presenting and being a thought partner across the company.

Core Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Software Engineers, Data Scientists, and Data Analysts to design, implement and scale our data processing and analysis platforms
• Design, build and deploy efficient and reliable cloud-based data pipelines to move data across a number of platforms and disparate data sources
• Identify data needs for business and product teams, understand their metrics and analysis requirements and build solutions to enable data-driven decisions
• Protect our data sources against quality issues. Design and develop data quality monitoring.
• As we collect richer data about user interactions during interviews, you will drive the collection and refinement of our data to increase the signal captured in every minute of our interviews and maximize the value provided to our customers.
• Support our engineering teams by reviewing code and designs
• Nurture the data conversations and culture at Karat by educating technical and non-technical teammates about data literacy and usage.
• Level up the skills of everyone around you through direct mentorship, brown bags, clean code, and setting a strong example.

About You:

• 2+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or other related roles, with a focus on building data pipelines and conducting data analysis
• Experience with development best practices, including version control, code reviews, and documentation
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• Experience with Amazon Web Services
• Experience with and a knack for communicating technical work to stakeholders
• Experience with data visualization and presentation, familiar with data analysis and BI tools
• Strong data analysis and scientific thinking skills
• Experience with Python, Docker and job orchestration frameworks such as Apache Airflow
• Significant experience with relational databases with a strong knowledge of SQL and data modeling best principles

Benefits of joining Karat:

While doing meaningful work is rewarding in itself, we also offer the following programs and benefits for all our full-time employees:

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Medical / dental / vision insurance
• Flexible vacation and paid company holidays
• Paid parental leave
• State-of-the-art equipment for your work station

Statement of Non-Discrimination:

In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Karat.

We value a diverse workforce: people of color, women, and LGBTQIA+ individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.