Data Engineer

About Foursquare 

Foursquare is the leading independent location technology and data cloud platform dedicated to building meaningful bridges between digital spaces and physical places. Our proprietary technology unlocks the most accurate, trustworthy location data in the world, empowering businesses to answer key questions, uncover hidden insights, improve customer experiences, and achieve better business outcomes. A pioneer of the geo-location space, Foursquare’s location tech stack is being utilized by the world’s largest enterprises and most recognizable brands.

Learn more at location.foursquare.com

About the Position

Foursquare is looking for a Data Engineer to join our team! 

As a data engineer on the Data Platform team, you will contribute to the platform services and pipelines that facilitate large-scale data ingestion and governance. You will ship software with high visibility and of strategic importance to Foursquare, directly impacting revenue and developer experience. You will focus on improving the scalability, maintainability, and usability of our data platform services while making them more user-friendly and self-serviceable.

About the Team

The Data Platform team is responsible for building and maintaining a wide range of services and pipelines that enable data ingestion and delivery across all of Foursquare’s data products and make sure we stay compliant with legal and privacy regulations. The team also watches over the infrastructure powering all big data processing at Foursquare and drives the best practices and modernization efforts on data pipeline developments.

In this role, you’ll

• Influence key decisions on architecture and implementation of scalable, automated data processing workflows
• Build big data processing pipelines using Spark and Airflow
• Focus on performance, throughput, and latency, and drive these throughout our architecture
• Write test automation, conduct code reviews, and take end-to-end ownership of deployments to production
• Write, deploy, and monitor services for data access by systems across our infrastructure
• Participate in on-call rotation duties

What you’ll need

• BS/BA in a technical field such as computer science or equivalent experience.
• 0-3 years of experience in software development, working with production-level code.
• Proficiency in one or more of the programming languages we use: Python, Java or Scala
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to identify and communicate data-driven insights.
• Self-driven and feel comfortable learning without much hand-holding
• Experience with relational or document-oriented database systems, such as Postgres and MongoDB and experience writing SQL queries.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure services, such as AWS(S3, EMR, EC2, Glue, Athena, SQS, SNS) or GCP
• Experience with data processing technologies and tools, such as Spark, Hadoop(HDFS, Hive, MapReduce), Athena, Airflow, Luigi
• Strong algorithms and data structures knowledge.
• Comfort with Unix/Linux and the command line.
• Your own unique talents! If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, we encourage and welcome you to still apply!

Benefits and Perks

• 25 days of paid vacation
• Private medical insurance
• Home Office Setup, you get all the necessary hardware
• Summer Fridays, two non-working Fridays each July and August
• FitPass
• Restricted Stock Units
• Working and residence permit sponsorship for Serbia

Things to know…

Foursquare is proud to foster an inclusive environment that is free from discrimination. We strongly believe in order to build the best products, we need a diversity of perspectives and backgrounds. This leads to a more delightful experience for our users and team members. We value listening to every voice and we encourage everyone to come be a part of building a company and products we love.

Foursquare is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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