Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Apache Airflow, Apache Hadoop, Apache Hive, Apache Kafka, Data Analytics, ETL frameworks, Kubernetes-K8s, Large data sets, Machine learning techniques, MySQL, Spark Core
Our small but mighty Data Engineering Team owns all data infrastructure for The Athletic: MySQL production database, analytics data streaming pipeline using Kubernetes, Kafka, EMR (Spark), S3, Airflow and Redshift, all hosted in AWS. The team works on many different things: scaling our data infrastructure, modeling, recommendations, product features, data visualization - it’s never boring! We have lots of exciting things we want to build and we don't have enough time to build them. That's where you come in!
You'll be leading a team of 3 data engineers using cutting edge technology to build and deploy the tools and data infrastructure that power our platform. You should be interested in building systems for scale, performance, and reliability. We all wear a lot of hats, so you’ll have the opportunity to work on database administration, infrastructure, ETL, microservice and model deployment, testing, experiments, and more depending on your interests. We’re a team of generalists interested in continuously learning new areas and we’ll expect you to be one as well. Our team is always experimenting and we trust and encourage our engineers to dream up and try out their own ideas and features.
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The annual base salary range for this role is $175,000.00 - $230,000.00 USD. The total compensation offered for this position may vary based on factors such as education, experience, skills, and location. It may also include non-cash rewards and benefits. The base salary range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
The Athletic offers unique perks and benefits to all full-time employees based on their country of residence. Our comprehensive US benefits package includes:
For international candidates: Our global benefits packages offer similar benefits and perks, competitive to the local market.
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