
Senior Staff Data Engineer
- Hyderabad, Telangana
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Design, develop and maintain Ninja Van's infrastructure for streaming, processing and storage of data.
- Build tools for effective maintenance and monitoring of the data infrastructure.
- Contribute to key data pipeline architecture decisions and lead the implementation of major initiatives.
- Work closely with stakeholders to develop scalable and performant solutions for their data requirements, including extraction, transformation and loading of data from a range of data sources.
- Develop the team's data capabilities - share knowledge, enforce best practices and encourage data-driven decisions.
- Develop Ninja Van's data retention policies, backup strategies and ensure that the firm's data is stored redundantly and securely.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field from a top university.
- Solid Computer Science fundamentals, excellent problem-solving skills and a strong understanding of distributed computing principles.
- At least 8 years of experience in a similar role, with a proven track record of building scalable and performant data infrastructure.
- Expert SQL knowledge and deep experience working with relational and NoSQL databases.
- Advanced knowledge of Apache Kafka and demonstrated proficiency in Hadoop v2, HDFS, and MapReduce.
- Experience with stream-processing systems (e.g. Storm, Spark Streaming), big data querying tools (e.g. Pig, Hive, Spark) and data serialization frameworks (e.g. Protobuf, Thrift, Avro).
- [Good to have] Experience with infrastructure as code technologies like (Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, Helm). Don't sweat it if you don't have it, as long as it interests you!
- [Good to have] CDC technologies like Maxwell or Debezium.