Position: Principal Data Engineer
Company: Starkflow
Category: Java
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

**About the client:**
Client is a recurring billing and subscription management tool that helps SaaS and  SaaS-like businesses streamline Revenue Operations. They automates the lead-to-ledger workflow across your revenue stack, so you can dream, deploy, and enjoy the breeze. While the MRR just keeps rolling.

**About the position:** 
We are looking for a savvy Data Engineer to join our growing team. The hire will be responsible for expanding and optimizing our data and data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing data flow. The ideal candidate is an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up. The right candidate will be excited by the prospect of optimizing or even re-designing our company’s data architecture to support our next generation of products and data initiatives. 

**Roles and Responsibilities:**
 Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture  
 Create and maintain events/streaming based architecture/design  
 Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual  processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability,  etc.  
 Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of  data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and AWS ‘big data’ technologies.   Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in  building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.  
 Work with data scientists to strive for greater functionality in our data systems. 

**Skills and Experience: **
 Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures and data  sets.  
 Strong analytic skills related to working with structured/unstructured datasets.   Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, dimensional  modelling, metadata, dependency, schema registration/evolution and workload  management.  
 Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big  data’ data stores.  
 Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic  environment.  
 We are looking for a candidate with 4+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role.  They should also have experience using the following software/tools:  
o Experience with big data tools: HDFS/S3, Spark/Flink,Hive,Hbase,  Kafka/kinesis etc.  
o Experience with relational SQL (MySQL/Postgres) and NoSQL databases  (Cassandra, MongoDB, DynamoDB, HBase)  
o Experience with key/value stores like Redis and search engines like  Elasticsearch.  
o Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools like Airflow etc.  o Experience with any public cloud like AWS services  
o Experience with stream-processing systems: Spark-Streaming/Flink etc.  o Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Java,  Scala, Pyspark etc.