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Instacart

CompanyInstacart
Websiteinstacart.com
Typefull-time
LocationSan Francisco,CA
Salary
Apply viaEmailderrick@instacart.com
Hiring notes
TechPythonML/AI
Parsed locationsSan Francisco,CA
Posted bydgellidon
PostedMar 1, 2016
SourceView on Hacker News ↗

Original posting

Instacart | San Francisco,CA | Full-Time | Onsite The Data & Analytics team at Instacart is new and you will have the opportunity to shape its direction as one of our Senior Data Engineers and create large impact. What You’ll Be Doing The ideal candidate is able to build and maintain a robust, scalable and sustainable enterprise data platform. Furthermore, s/he is well versed in the best practices of data warehousing, but is flexible enough to think outside the box whenever necessary. The Data Engineer should be no stranger to high-scale systems with complex data models and large amounts data coming form various sources. Work closely with the analysts and business stakeholders to gather technical requirements Provide senior-level contribution to a team responsible for the design, implementation, deployment and maintenance of a multi-terabyte data platform Contribute the continual improvement of the Instacart data platform via your observations and knowledge gained from your involvement and KPI's Work in a collaborative environment -- meetings, iterative development and design and code review sessions What You Should Already Have Expert level proficiency in SQL. Ability to perform complex data analysis with large volumes of data Working experience with variety of data storage technology, including columnar databases and Hadoop ecosystem Experience in data warehousing including dimensional modeling concepts Proficiency in at least one of the scripting languages: Perl, Python or others Real-time data pipeline construction (like Kafka) a plus Machine learning experience a plus Experience building consumer facing data products (like recommendations or productionalized algorithms) a plus Experience in object-oriented programming is a plus If Interested email: derrick@instacart.com