Homes.com - Senior Data Engineer
Job Description
Homes.com is already one of the fastest growing real estate portals in the industry, we are driven to be #1. Just ask Brad Bellflower, Chief Change Officer at Apartments.com. After its acquisition in 2014, Apartments.com quickly turned into the most popular place to find a place. Proven success at the highest level – and we’re doing it again with the new Homes.com. Homes.com is a CoStar Group company with 20+ years' experience in leading and growing digital marketplaces. We pride ourselves on continually improving, innovating, and setting the standard for property search and marketing experiences. With Homes.com we’re building a brand on the cusp of defining the industry. We’re looking for big thinkers, brave leaders, and creative advertising wizards ready to influence a new age of homebuying within a tried-and-true, award-winning company.
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We are hiring a talented Senior Data Engineer in roles related to building cloud-based data pipelines for machine learning, data processing with Apache Spark, and database development.
This position is located in San Diego, CA (UTC Area) and offers 2 days remote per week.
Responsibilities
• Designing, building, testing and deploying scalable, reusable and maintainable applications that handle substantial amounts of data.
• Taking full ownership of your work from development and testing to eventual deployment and support in production.
• Collaborating with other engineers, product owners, designers, and leadership.
• Becoming a trusted team member in matters of technical architecture, design and code.
• Advocating for evolution and improvement - both technical and non-technical - within our teams. Includes new tech, tools and best practices.
• Gaining a deep understanding of the CoStar business, including the Analytic products.
Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university or college
• A track record of commitment to prior employers
• A demonstrable record of accomplishment of building and launching successful products that use terabytes of data
• 5+ years of data pipeline engineering experience, and/or deep database engineering experience
• Ability to analyze technical requirements and design new architectures, data models and ETL strategies
• Hands-on experience with cloud-based relational and non-relational databases
• Deliver work products that meet specifications, are free of defects, with excellent performance
• Define Architecture and Development best practices
• Facilitate discussions among developers to exchange ideas and introduce innovative technologies
• Evaluate emerging technologies to find opportunities, trends and best practices that can be used to strengthen CoStar’s technology platform and development practices
• Willingness to take an active role in mentoring other developers
Preferred Qualifications And Skills
• Performance tuning of database queries (SQL Server or PostgreSQL), database design, monitoring, and analysis
• Experience with No-SQL databases (e.g. DynamoDB)
• Experience with data pipeline tools (e.g. Glue, Step Functions, Lambda)
• Experience using Confluent Kafka
• Knowledge and/or experience working with Apache Spark/Databricks
• Monitoring & dashboard metric management (e.g. CloudWatch, Kibana)
What’s in it for You
When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.
We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program.
Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):
• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
• Commuter and parking benefits
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes
Access to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks
We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.
This position offers a base salary range of $110,000 - $199,000, based on relevant skills and experience and includes a generous benefits plan.
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Location: San Diego, CA
Posted: Sept. 22, 2024, 5:37 a.m.
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