Data Engineer
Job Description
- Design, build, and manage real-time data pipelines using tools like Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Spark Streaming.
- Optimize data pipelines for performance, scalability, and fault-tolerance.
- Perform real-time transformations, aggregations, and joins on streaming data.
- Collaborate with data scientists to onboard new features and ensure they're discoverable, documented, and versioned.
- Optimize feature retrieval latency for real-time inference use cases.
- Ensure strong data governance: lineage, auditing, schema evolution, and quality checks using tools such as dbt, and Open Lineage.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering from a premier institute (IIT/NIT/ BIT)
- 3-5 years of experience in an Indian startup/ tech company
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or Scala and proficient in SQL.
- Solid understanding of data modeling, data warehousing concepts, and the differences between OLTP and OLAP workloads.
- Experience ingesting and processing various data formats, including semi-structured (JSON, Avro), unstructured, and document-based data from sources like NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB), APIs, and event tracking platforms (e.g., PostHog).
- Hands-on experience with Change Data Capture (CDC) tools such as Debezium or AWS DMS for replicating data from transactional databases.
- Proven experience designing and building scalable data lakes or lakehouse architectures on platforms like Databricks.
- Hands-on experience with modern open table formats such as Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, or Apache Hudi.
- Hands-on experience with real-time streaming technologies like Kafka, Flink, and Spark Streaming.
- Proficiency with data pipeline orchestration tools like Apache Airflow.
- Exposure to event-driven microservices architecture.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.