About the Role:
We're looking for a Junior Engineer to join our product engineering team. You'll work alongside senior engineers to build, automate & deploy LigaData Data Platform products. This is a hands-on role ideal for someone early in their career who wants to grow in data engineering, infrastructure, and DevOps.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist in the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of LigaData Big Data platform
- Support the setup and management of clusters across on-premise and/or cloud environments
- Develop and maintain automation scripts to streamline deployment, provisioning, and routine operational tasks
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for platform components and data jobs
- Assist in troubleshooting issues, and help resolve incidents
- Document deployment procedures, configurations, and runbooks
- Collaborate with infrastructure engineers, deployment teams and operations teams to improve platform reliability and performance
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Basic understanding of Big Data concepts and distributed systems
- Familiarity with at least one scripting language (Python, Bash, or similar)
- Foundational knowledge of Linux/Unix environments
- Knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration concepts
- Familiarity with AI coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor) to support development and automation
- Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to learn
Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to version control (Git)
- Exposure to Big Data tools (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Hive, or similar)
- Familiarity with automation/configuration tools (Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, or Chef)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions)
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Basic understanding of Big Data concepts and distributed systems
- Familiarity with at least one scripting language (Python, Bash, or similar)
- Foundational knowledge of Linux/Unix environments
- Knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration concepts
- Familiarity with AI coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor)
- Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to learn
- Exposure to version control (Git)
- Exposure to Big Data tools (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Hive, or similar)
- Familiarity with automation/configuration tools (Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, or Chef)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions)
What We Do
LigaData is a big-data product startup whose founding members were instrumental in building powerful data technologies including Hadoop, at Yahoo. LigaData champions an open source project named Kamanja, which enables continuous decisioning, the notion of deploying data mining and real time decisioning models on an unlimited volume of data sets. Kamanja is in use at scale by top financial and healthcare institutions for use cases ranging from threat detection to optimizing customer contact. Our dynamic work environment encourages and rewards innovators who bring outside-the-box thinking and leadership skills. Do you have the entrepreneurial vision and ambition to be a part of our journey?
