What You'll Do
- Architectural Leadership: Lead the design and development of scalable, high-performance data pipelines and infrastructure that power Samba TV's analytics.
- Complex Problem Solving: Resolve complex technical issues in creative and effective ways, understanding the interrelationships of different disciplines.
- Production Dataset Management: Lead the design, build, and maintenance of high-scale production datasets. Ensure the delivery of versioned outputs and reliable customer-facing reports.
- Schema Evolution & Lifecycle: Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of data features - adding new attributes, updating business logic, and executing safe rollouts (staging → performance check → production), including complex backfills and reprocessing.
- Performance & Cost Engineering: Architect scalable and efficient solutions for data ingestion, transformation, and storage, ensuring performance, reliability, and security. Proactively drive down compute and storage costs.
- Incident Response & Debugging: Serve as a technical lead for production incidents. Investigate root causes, implement permanent fixes, and validate data recovery across the ecosystem.
- Cross-Functional Influence: Network with key contacts outside your own area of expertise and frequently advise others on complex matters.
- Mentorship: Guide the development of new policies and ideas while mentoring and guiding other engineers to foster a culture of technical excellence.
- Observability: Enhance monitoring and observability of data processes, improving debugging, error detection, and system reliability at scale.
Who You Are
- Experience: Typically 8+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree (or 6 years with a Master’s; 3 years with a PhD).
- Technical Mastery: Advanced knowledge of Python and deep understanding of distributed data processing frameworks like Apache Spark or PySpark.
- Orchestration Expertise: Must-have expertise in Apache Airflow and Databricks for orchestration and scalable data processing.
- Infrastructure: Extensive experience with cloud-based data infrastructure (AWS, GCP) and modern data lake architectures.
- Data Modeling: Strong knowledge of data modeling, database design, and query optimization for both relational and non-relational databases.
- Software Excellence: Proven track record of driving best practices for code quality, testing, and software design in a data engineering context.
- Communication: Ability to adapt your communication style and use persuasion when delivering messages that relate to the wider firm business.
Top Skills
What We Do
Television remains a vibrant cultural influence and an essential source of entertainment and information worldwide. Tremendous growth in content choices, and viewing platforms that allow us to watch anything, anytime, on any screen, has actually made it harder for viewers to discover and keep up with all the great programming available. It’s also more competitive for content providers to keep your attention, and for marketers to make strong, measurable connections with their target consumers. Technology that improves the viewing experience, enables content discovery, and addresses audience fragmentation across screens will strengthen television’s business model and relevance to consumers. Data is at the center of any solution to make TV better. Samba TV's technology is built into Smart TVs and easily maps to smart phones and tablets. By recognizing what's on screen, Samba TV learns what viewers like and using machine learning algorithms, enables discovery of shows and actors in a whole new way. Likewise, our data and measurement products are transforming the way stakeholders across the media landscape are thinking about their business. Given the dramatic growth in streaming services, connected devices, time-shifting, and multi-screen viewership, our data products solve real problems and create a meaningful competitive advantage for our clients.
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