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As Verizon's media unit, our brands like Yahoo, TechCrunch and HuffPost help people stay informed and entertained, communicate and transact, while creating new ways for advertisers and partners to connect. With technologies like XR, AI, machine-learning, and 5G, we're transforming media for tomorrow, too. We're creators and coders, dreamers and doers creating what's next in content, advertising and technology.
It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of 1 billion. Nearly half of Verizon Media employees are building the code and platforms that help us achieve that. Whether you're looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process 4 trillion data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business-and the world. Want in? As Verizon's media unit, our brands like Yahoo, TechCrunch and HuffPost help people stay informed and entertained, communicate and transact, while creating new ways for advertisers and partners to connect. With technologies like XR, AI, machine-learning, and 5G, we're transforming media for tomorrow, too. We're creators and coders, dreamers and doers creating what's next in content, advertising and technology.
The Verizon Media Analytics team is searching for a qualified, passionate and highly motivated Data Engineer. We design, build, optimize and maintain data pipelines to transform large volumes of data into information for operational and financial decision making. This opportunity will require the individual to creatively approach problems from an analytical perspective in order to embrace our complex data ecosystem and deliver automated and scalable solutions in a fast paced, team oriented environment. Driven by your passion for data and your ability to embrace new and exciting programming technologies, you will work with both internal and external partners to define and craft innovative data pipeline solutions in support of our leading global digital advertising products.
The Verizon Media Analytics team is searching for a qualified, passionate and highly motivated Data Engineer. We design, build, optimize and maintain data pipelines to transform large volumes of data into information for operational and financial decision making. This opportunity will require the individual to creatively approach problems from an analytical perspective in order to embrace our complex data ecosystem and deliver automated and scalable solutions in a fast paced, team oriented environment. Driven by your passion for data and your ability to embrace new and exciting programming technologies, you will work with both internal and external partners to define and craft innovative data pipeline solutions in support of our leading global digital advertising products.
Our Mission
* Build brands consumers love
* Build platforms customers love
* Build a company talent loves
Responsibilities
* Build and maintain fault-tolerant, high-performance, scalable data pipelines to transform large volumes of data into information for operational and financial decision making
* Participate in code reviews and design discussions
* Understand and anticipate business needs and fix issues reported by customers
* Perform continuous integration to ensure that every step of a data pipeline is testable and automated
Required Skills
* Passionate about data and automation
* Intermediate knowledge of Python
* Intermediate knowledge of SQL (Vertica/Postgres/Oracle/AWS Redshift/MySQL)
* Experience with Unix/Linux environment
* Experience with ETL workflow processes, experience with Airflow a plus
* Specific experience creating and maintaining data pipelines
* Specific experience working on data-driven products
* Strong communication and collaboration skills
* Strong analytical and problem solving skills
* Strong time management and prioritization skills
Preferred Education/Experience:
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering or Economics preferred
* Prior experience in a related analytics or developer role, digital advertising or media experience a plus
* Experience with Airflow
* Experience with Hadoop/Hive/Hbase/Pig/Spark
* Experience with Java/GO/Scala
* Experience with AWS
Verizon Media is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Verizon Media is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please email ApplicantAccommodation@verizonmedia.com or call 408-336-1409. Emails/calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
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About Verizon Media
Verizon Media (formerly Oath) is a company operating media, technology, and communication brands.
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