Position: Backend Engineer, Data Management
Company: DataRobot
Category: Python
Experience required: 2y
English level: intermediate

Job Description:

Responsibilities
As an Ingest Backend Engineer, you will develop ingest systems to integrate DataRobot with databases, cloud storage systems, SaaS products, and other sources of data, and you will help enhance and maintain these systems as they evolve to meet future connectivity and performance needs. You will contribute to the design of new frameworks to support reading, writing, authentication, failure handling and more with high performance and reliability. These ingest systems are a key component of the overall architecture of DataRobot.

The ideal candidate can bring new ideas from concept to implementation, write quality, testable code, and participate in design/development discussions. They also have a can-do attitude and highly value the customer experience above all else, and embrace maintaining and firefighting systems when necessary. The ability and willingness to quickly learn new technologies are essential for this role.

Requirements
Strong experience in Python 3
Experience developing with JVM languages (Java, Scala, Kotlin)  
Experience with large applications and systems development
Strong experience using JDBC for database access
Strong database and blob storage experience
Experience integrating applications with cloud data storage systems like S3, GCS, Azure Blob Storage, Snowflake, Google BigQuery etc.
Experience with authentication methods like Kerberos, SSO, Active Directory or similar
Familiarity with HTTP and experience using tools such as curl or Postman to test HTTP APIs
Ability and willingness to quickly learn about new technologies
Experience
Experience in the following areas would be a plus, but not necessary:

Experience with Kubernetes ecosystem or Hadoop ecosystem
Experience developing applications using Docker
Experience with functional programming