Senior Data Engineer, Research Engineering

About the role:

Forter is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join its Research Engineering team. The Research Engineering teams mission is to enable Forters research needs. We succeed when our research analysts data scientists and engineers have access to the data tools knowledge and support to do their jobs painlessly and efficiently.

We build the foundational infrastructure and key applications that allow internal users to derive actionable insights from Forters vast data. Both enablingand runningBig Data processing at the scale of hundreds of TB is a core part of what our team does but were not just a Big Data team. We work across the tech stack in support of our mission to enable datadriven research and investigation from backend to frontend to data stores.

What youll be doing:

• Design build and maintain foundational infrastructure and key applications that allow people to effectively leverage Forters proprietary and public data
• Use modern technologies daily such as: Snowflake Databricks Apache Spark Elasticsearch AWS Kafka and more
• Expand and optimize Forters data warehouse and lakehouseweighing tradeoffs between performance cost and user experienceacross continually larger and more complex datasets
• Model data and define storage strategy to ensure that data is intuitive for researchers to find and easy and fast for them to access
• Enhance Forter analysts mostused web application which gives them indepth insight into every decision we make
• Collaborate directly with colleagues from various disciplines: Analysts Data Scientists and other Engineers (all of whom write production code!)
• Selfmanage project planning milestones designs and estimations
• Hold yourself and others to a high standard when working with production systems. We take pride in our tests monitoring & alerting abilities just as we do with our systems.
• Debug complex problems across the whole stack

What youll need:

• 5 years of proven experience with designing implementing and maintaining largescale backend production systems
• Experience building and maintaining dataintensive applications
• Experience with data processing technologies e.g. Spark Flink EMR Iceberg
• Experience with data warehousing frameworks e.g. Snowflake Hive Glue Databricks Unity Catalog
• Experience working in Python
• Experience with AWS or other public clouds
• Professional proficiency in English

Would be cool if you have:

• Experience with a JVMbased language
• Experience with NoSQL databases e.g. ElasticSearch AeroSpike Cassandra MongoDB
• A strong command of SQL
• Experience building web applications

Things we appreciate:

• Interesting nontrivial problems youve dealt with
• A link to a blog post you wrote or an interesting talk youve given
• Open source projects youve created or contributed to
• Side projects that you couldnt resist building

About us:

Digital commerce is built on trust. At every point along the eCommerce journey businesses must make a critical decision: Can I trust this customer Answering this simple question accurately and instantly is powerfulit can accelerate revenue growth and strengthen a companys connection with its customers. How do we do it Forter was founded on the insight that its not about what is being purchased nor where but who is behind the interaction.

The Forter Decision Engine finds patterns across more than one billion identities in our dataset. We isolate fraudsters and protect customersensuring everyone gets the experience they deserve. Given that trust is central to how we operate Forter is very much driven by a defined set of values. We attract remarkable talent and have retention and engagement levels that are well above benchmarks. Were meticulous about strengthening our culture as we grow and ensuring this is an environment where people can have outsized impact.

Trust is backed by data Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards including:

• Great Place to Work Certification (2024)
• Fortunes Best Workplaces in NYC (and 2024)
• Forbes Cloud 100 (and 2024)
• #3 on Fast Companys list of Most Innovative Finance Companies (2022)
• AntiFraud Solution of the Year at the Payments Awards (2024)
• SAP Pinnacle Awards New Partner Application Award (2023)
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)

Life as a Forterian:

We are a team of over 600 Forterians spread across 3 different continents. Since 2013 weve raised $525 million from investors such as Tiger Global Bessemer Sequoia Capital March Capital and Salesforce Ventures. Were on a mission to bring trust to global digital commerce so that companies like Adobe ASOS eBay Instacart Priceline and Nordstrom can block fraud drive revenue and improve customer experience.

At Forter we believe unique people create unique ideas and valuable experience comes in many forms. So even if your background doesnt match everything we have listed in the job description we still encourage you to apply and tell us why your skills and values could be an asset to us. By welcoming different perspectives we grow together as humans and as a company.

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