Position: Software Data Engineer
Company: Alcor
Category: Python
Experience required: 1y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

Are you interested in building products and technology to change the future of video? Do you want to make an impact with a close-knit team within a 110-person company? Do you want to ship code as soon as you join and scale systems at a successful and growing company? The company goes beyond real-time insights about the performance of online videos across all countries, devices, and all major platforms, by also making available the performance of everything else: competitive analysis, marketing demand, industry, and thematic trends.

​​​Smartphones, social media, and new streaming apps are revolutionizing media and entertainment. The company is the worldwide leader in online video intelligence. We are guiding firms through the new digital video landscape. We serve the world’s greatest media companies and brands, including top movie studios & TV networks, leading technology companies, and the creme of digital-first publishers. The company analyzes the engagement of the world of digital video viewers and tracks 8 billion videos and live streams across the major platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Twitch.

**Reasons to be a data engineer:**
- Opportunity to work with truly big "Big Data".
- Learn how to build infrastructure that ingests 10 TB of data per day across nearly 1 billion transactions
- Use a modern technology stack, including Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes, ElasticSearch
- Contribute to a highly collaborative team with a culture of openness, ownership, and growth-mindedness
- Startup culture - you see your own impact on the company success
- Our stack of technologies: Python, Spark, Hive Metastore, Kubernetes, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Async.IO, Auro, Thrift, AWS

**What you bring to the role:**
- A desire to learn new technologies and build great software used by key people in the digital video entertainment industry
- An innate ability to solve problems and communicate your technical insights effectively
- Experience with Python or other programming languages as Java, C++, C
- Enthusiasm to be an active and contributing member of a high-performance engineering team.

**Benefits:**
- 20 paid vacation annually
- Paid sick days
- Travel to the US office
- Access to training and development
- The latest equipment
- VIP Health Insurance Package
- Paid Paternity Bonding Leave (2 weeks)
- The company provides stock options
- A chance to impact the future of media!