Position: Data Engineer (Python)
Company: Very Good Security
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**Your impact and why VGS needs you:**
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer with an equal flair for creative problem solving, new technologies enthusiasm, and desire to contribute to product development.

**In this role you will: **
Design, implement and operate large-scale, high-volume, high-performance data structures for analytics and data science.
Implement data ingestion and transformation using best practices in data modeling, ETL/ELT processes by leveraging various technologies and ETL frameworks.
Gather business and functional requirements and translate these requirements into robust, scalable, operable solutions with a flexible and adaptable data architecture.
Collaborate with engineers to help adopt best practices in data system creation, data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation.
Collaborate with data analysts and scientists to create fast and efficient algorithms that exploit our rich data sets for optimization, statistical analysis, prediction, clustering and machine learning.
Help continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service modeling and production support for customers.
Oversee junior team members activities and help with their professional grows

**We expect you to have:**
5+ years of software development experience, ideally at a product company.
3+ years of experience building and supporting scalable as well as fault-tolerant batch, streaming, real-time and/or near-real-time data pipelines. 
Expert knowledge of SQL and Python. 
Practical experience with one or more data-flow programming frameworks such as   Argo, Airflow, Prefect, etc.
Strong knowledge of data modeling experience with both relational and NoSQL databases
Hands-on experience with data warehouses, preferably AWS Redshift
Ability to work independently to deliver well-designed, high-quality, and testable code on time.
Capable of mentoring more junior developers.
English - upper-intermediate / advanced

**Even better if you know a bit about: **
Hands on experience working with big data ecosystem tools such as:
Singer, Airbyte, etc.
Apache Hive, Spark, Iceberg, Presto, AWS Athena, etc.
PostgreSQL
Understanding and hands-on experience with Kubernetes
Open source projects on GitHub

**What’s in it for you:**
Silicon Valley Experience;
3 weeks of paid vacation and 2 weeks of days off+sick leaves;
Hackers’ days;
Corporate retreats;
Paid lunches and parking;
Covering professional learning: conferences, trainings, and other events;
Sports activities compensation;
English Speaking Club with native speakers;
Medical insurance;
VGS stock options.