Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering - NYC
About Rokt
Rokt is the global leader in ecommerce technology, helping companies seize the full potential of every transaction moment to grow revenue and acquire new customers at scale. Live Nation, Groupon, Staples, Lands' End, Fanatics, UrbanStems, GoDaddy, Vistaprint and HelloFresh are among the more than 2,500 leading global businesses and advertisers that are using Rokt's solutions to drive more value through every transaction by offering highly relevant messages to their customers at the moment they are most likely to convert.
With our December 2021 Series E raise of USD$325M, Rokt is expanding rapidly and globally – operating in 19 countries across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region with the largest office in NYC and a major R&D hub in Sydney. With annual revenues of more than US$200M and vibrant company culture, Rokt has been listed in ‘Great Places to Work’ in the US and Australia. Our award-winning culture is guided by our five core values: Smart with Humility, Own the Outcomes, Force for Good, Conquer New Frontiers, and Enjoy the Ride. These values help us attract, engage, and develop the right talent around the globe and ensure we have the right conditions to do our best work. Keen to join a fast-growing company and a vibrant culture? Learn more at rokt.com.
The Rokt engineering team builds best-in-class ecommerce technology that provides personalized and relevant experiences for customers globally and empowers marketers with sophisticated, AI-driven tooling to better understand consumers. Our bespoke platform handles millions of transactions per day and considers billions of data points which give engineers the opportunity to build technology at scale, collaborate across teams and gain exposure to a wide range of technology. We are expanding rapidly in our major R&D centers in NYC and Sydney. We are passionate about using intelligent systems to improve the transaction moment for retailers everywhere. Come join us and build the future!
About the role
We’re working on building a platform for reporting and analytics that is able to handle huge amounts of data in a real-time fashion that would allow us to uncover new insights and help us make decisions.
Our goal is to unlock data and make it available to various users starting from other engineers to end business users and clients. We value pragmatic solutions and simplicity that help us build reliable and fast systems.
Outcomes & responsibilities
Build distributed, high-volume data pipelines and storage that power our reporting and analytics
Work on real-time distributed OLAP custom solutions
Do it with Spark, Kafka, Airflow, and other open-source technologies
Work all over the stack, moving fluidly between programming languages: Scala, Python, and more
You'll help define the processes and infrastructure to transform and make data readily available across the company
Join a tightly knit team solving hard problems the right way
Own meaningful parts of our service, have an impact, grow with the company
Take responsibility for system health, monitoring and alerting, and CI/CD pipelines
Support and mentor other engineers on best practices, architecture, and quality
Capabilities & requirements
You have built and operated data pipelines for real customers in production systems
You are fluent in several programming languages (JVM & otherwise)
You’ve worked with data stores and/or data warehouses, such as AWS Redshift, Snowflake, Clickhouse, or others
You have hands-on experience with BigData frameworks (Hadoop, Hive, Spark, etc.)
You’re able to explain advanced technical concepts in a simple manner and cater to your audience
You enjoy wrangling huge datasets and helping others unlock new insights
You’re concerned about resiliency, high-availability, data quality, and other aspects of a critical system
Force for Good. We actively invest in the growth of our people and the strengthening of our communities. Our NYC office is 100% vaccinated to keep our employees and community safe and healthy. We require all Rokt’stars as well as anyone else who will be onsite at the Rokt NYC office – clients, contractors, vendors, and suppliers – to show proof of vaccination and their booster shot.
Work with the greatest talent in town. Our recruiting process is tough. We hold a high bar because we have a high-performing, high-velocity culture - we only want the brightest and the best.
Join a community. We believe the best things happen when we come together to solve complex problems and make meaningful connections with each other through interest groups, sports clubs, and social events.
Accelerate your career. Develop through our global training events, ‘Level Up’ investment, online training courses, and our fantastic people leaders. Take your career to Rokt’speed - Grow your career in our rapidly growing company.
Take a break. When you work hard, we know you also need to rest. We offer generous time off and parental leave policies, as well as mental health and wellness days for all employees. We also offer a paid Rokt’star Sabbatical for employees who have been with us for 3 years or more.
Stay happy and healthy. Enjoy catered lunch 3 times a week and healthy snacks in the office. Plus join the gym on us! In the US, access generous retirement plans like a 4% dollar-for-dollar 401K matching plan and get fully funded premium health insurance for your whole family. And our NYC office is dog-friendly!
Become a shareholder. All Rokt’stars have stock options. If we succeed, everyone enjoys the upside.
See the world! Along with our global all-staff events in amazing locations (Phuket, Thailand in January 2020, Hawaii in May 2022), we also offer generous relocation packages for those interested in moving to another Rokt office. We have cool offices in great cities - New York, Sydney, London, Singapore, Tokyo.
Get the best of both worlds with a hybrid workplace. We currently work 3 days a week in office, allowing you to enjoy the best of both worlds (please note: this is subject to change based on the needs of the business and some support roles still require a full time presence). One week per quarter, you also have the flexibility to work from anywhere.
We believe in equality. Rokt is an Equal Opportunity Employer and recognizes that a diverse workforce is crucial to our success as a business. We would love you to apply for one of our open roles - irrespective of socio-economic status or background, age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, color, pregnancy, carer/family responsibilities, national and social origin, political opinion, marital, veteran, or disability status.
Salary range: $120,000 - $200,000 / year
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