Data Engineer

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 10 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Engineering

Job Summary

About Us

At Qloo we harness large-scale behavioral and catalog data to power recommendations and insights across entertainment dining travel retail and more. Our platform is built on a modern AWS data stack and supports analytics APIs and machine-learning models used by leading brands. We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to help evolve and scale this platform.

Role Overview

As a Data Engineer at Qloo you will design build and operate the pipelines that move data from external vendors internal systems and public sources into our S3-based data lake and downstream services. Youll work across AWS Glue EMR (Spark) Athena/Hive and Airflow (MWAA) to ensure that our data is accurate well-modeled and efficiently accessible for analytics indexing and machine-learning workloads.

You should be comfortable owning end-to-end data flows from ingestion and transformation to quality checks monitoring and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

- Design develop and maintain batch data pipelines using Python Spark (EMR) and AWS Glue loading data from S3 RDS and external sources into Hive/Athena tables.

- Model datasets in our S3/Hive data lake to support analytics (Hex) API use cases Elasticsearch indexes and ML models.

- Implement and operate workflows in Airflow (MWAA) including dependency management scheduling retries and alerting via Slack.

- Build robust data quality and validation checks (schema validation freshness/volume checks anomaly detection) and ensure issues are surfaced quickly with monitoring and alerts.

- Optimize jobs for cost and performance (partitioning file formats join strategies proper use of EMR/Glue resources).

- Collaborate closely with data scientists ML engineers and application engineers to understand data requirements and design schemas and pipelines that serve multiple use cases.

- Contribute to internal tooling and shared libraries that make working with our data platform faster safer and more consistent.

- Document pipelines datasets and best practices so the broader team can easily understand and work with our data.

Qualifications

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.

- Experience with Python and distributed data processing using Spark (PySpark) on EMR or a similar environment.

- Hands-on experience with core AWS data services ideally including:

- S3 (data lake partitioning lifecycle management)

- AWS Glue (jobs crawlers catalogs)

- EMR or other managed Spark platforms

- Athena/Hive and SQL for querying large datasets

- Relational databases such as RDS (PostgreSQL/MySQL or similar)

- Experience building and operating workflows in Airflow (MWAA experience is a plus).

- Strong SQL skills and familiarity with data modeling concepts for analytics and APIs.

- Solid understanding of data quality practices (testing validation frameworks monitoring/observability).

- Comfortable working in a collaborative environment managing multiple projects and owning systems end-to-end.

We Offer

- Competitive salary and benefits package including health insurance retirement plan and paid time off.

- The opportunity to shape a modern cloud-based data platform that powers real products and ML experiences.

- A collaborative low-ego work environment where your ideas are valued and your contributions are visible.

- Flexible work arrangements (remote and hybrid options) and a healthy respect for work-life balance.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

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About UsAt Qloo we harness large-scale behavioral and catalog data to power recommendations and insights across entertainment dining travel retail and more. Our platform is built on a modern AWS data stack and supports analytics APIs and machine-learning models used by leading brands. We are looking...