The Role
Design and build data pipelines using AWS services and Python. Collaborate with data teams to ensure data quality and optimize performance.
Summary Generated by Built In
About Us
At Qloo, we harness large-scale behavioral and catalog data to power recommendations and insights across entertainment, dining, travel, retail, and more. Our platform is built on a modern AWS data stack and supports analytics, APIs, and machine-learning models used by leading brands. We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to help evolve and scale this platform.
Role Overview
As a Data Engineer at Qloo, you will design, build, and operate the pipelines that move data from external vendors, internal systems, and public sources into our S3-based data lake and downstream services. You’ll work across AWS Glue, EMR (Spark), Athena/Hive, and Airflow (MWAA) to ensure that our data is accurate, well-modeled, and efficiently accessible for analytics, indexing, and machine-learning workloads.
You should be comfortable owning end-to-end data flows, from ingestion and transformation to quality checks, monitoring, and performance tuning.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain batch data pipelines using Python, Spark (EMR), and AWS Glue, loading data from S3, RDS, and external sources into Hive/Athena tables.
- Model datasets in our S3/Hive data lake to support analytics (Hex), API use cases, Elasticsearch indexes, and ML models.
- Implement and operate workflows in Airflow (MWAA), including dependency management, scheduling, retries, and alerting via Slack.
- Build robust data quality and validation checks (schema validation, freshness/volume checks, anomaly detection) and ensure issues are surfaced quickly with monitoring and alerts.
- Optimize jobs for cost and performance (partitioning, file formats, join strategies, proper use of EMR/Glue resources).
- Collaborate closely with data scientists, ML engineers, and application engineers to understand data requirements and design schemas and pipelines that serve multiple use cases.
- Contribute to internal tooling and shared libraries that make working with our data platform faster, safer, and more consistent.
- Document pipelines, datasets, and best practices so the broader team can easily understand and work with our data.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with Python and distributed data processing using Spark (PySpark) on EMR or a similar environment.
- Hands-on experience with core AWS data services, ideally including:
- S3 (data lake, partitioning, lifecycle management)
- AWS Glue (jobs, crawlers, catalogs)
- EMR or other managed Spark platforms
- Athena/Hive and SQL for querying large datasets
- Relational databases such as RDS (PostgreSQL/MySQL or similar)
- Experience building and operating workflows in Airflow (MWAA experience is a plus).
- Strong SQL skills and familiarity with data modeling concepts for analytics and APIs.
- Solid understanding of data quality practices (testing, validation frameworks, monitoring/observability).
- Comfortable working in a collaborative environment, managing multiple projects, and owning systems end-to-end.
We Offer
- Competitive salary and benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plan, and paid time off.
- The opportunity to shape a modern cloud-based data platform that powers real products and ML experiences.
- A collaborative, low-ego work environment where your ideas are valued and your contributions are visible.
- Flexible work arrangements (remote and hybrid options) and a healthy respect for work-life balance.
Top Skills
Airflow
Athena
Aws Glue
Emr
Hive
Python
Rds
S3
Spark
SQL
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The Company
What We Do
Qloo – the cultural AI.
Qloo has developed cutting-edge machine learning processes and AI algorithms to predict taste for any target audience and map relationships within and between cultural domains, including: Music, Film, TV, Dining, Nightlife, Fashion, Books, Travel and Tech.
Qloo has mapped more than a quarter-trillion cultural correlations, and makes this intelligence readily available to individuals, developers, and leading brands. Qloo's cultural AI is currently powering personalization and informing key decisions for market leaders in tech, financial services, entertainment, automotive, fashion, CPG and hospitality.
Qloo is headquartered and lovingly built in NYC.
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