About Spokeo:
Join our mission to make the world more transparent with data.
Spokeo is a people intelligence platform that helps over 18 million monthly visitors reconnect with friends, reunite with families, and build trust in new relationships. Thousands of companies also trust Spokeo’s 60 billion public records to improve customer research, help verify information, and prevent fraud.
Founded in 2006, Spokeo has built a dedicated, remote-first team with an average tenure of 6.9 years. It has earned recognition from Comparably as a Best Company for Compensation, Employee Happiness, Perks and Benefits, Support for Women, Work-Life Balance, and CEO Leadership.
About this Opportunity
As a Senior Data Engineer at Spokeo, you will develop, optimize, and improve our data systems, including ETL pipelines, storage, and entity resolution. This involves working with infrastructure built in AWS, including Airflow, PySpark, EMR, S3, DynamoDB, and more. This role will help build and improve data products, automation platform features, analytical software packages, and data pipeline orchestration tools.
What You’ll Do:
Build infrastructure and data automation pipelines to ingest, process, and load data from various sources. Automate and integrate new components into the data pipeline.
Collaborate with stakeholders and data science teams to develop data products, including entity resolution and best selection, to efficiently execute product vision and strategy in alignment with organizational goals and priorities.
Create unit and stress-test components to monitor technical performance and ensure that identified issues are resolved.
Develop data analysis tools to provide data insights and capture key metrics.
Research solutions and maintain technical documentation.
Follow best practices for data governance, quality, cleansing, and other ETL-related activities.
Who You Are:
Required: 7+ years of development experience in data engineering within a production environment (internships and academic settings excluded).
Proven experience working with large datasets exceeding 100M+ records or multiple terabytes.
Required: 5+ years of development experience in highly scalable, distributed systems and cluster architectures using AWS and utilizing EMR.
Required: 5+ years of hands-on programming experience with Python.
Required: 5+ years of professional experience working in big data ecosystems; Spark is required; PySpark is preferable.
Required: 5+ years of experience with SQL, schema design, and dimensional data modeling.
Required: 5+ years of professional experience working with dataflow orchestration tools, such as Airflow.
Required: 2+ years of experience with non-relational databases (e.g., DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, etc.).
Required: A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a related field is required.
Working at Spokeo
Spokeo offers a bonus program, equity plans, and a 401 (k). Once a year, we do a discretionary, merit-based salary increase. Additional benefits include 100% medical/dental/vision coverage and unlimited employee PTO.
Hiring at Spokeo
We extend written offers to candidates who successfully complete their selection process. Offers will depend on several factors, including, but not limited to, marketplace competition, job leveling, experience, and skills.
Privacy Notice for Candidates: https://www.spokeo.com/recruiting-policy
Spokeo is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status. Spokeo fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best products, and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.
Recruiters or staffing agencies: Spokeo is not obligated to compensate any external recruiter or search firm who presents a candidate or their resume or profile to a Spokeo employee without 1) a current, fully executed agreement on file, and 2) being assigned to the open position (as a search) via our applicant tracking solution.
Use of Artificial Intelligence in Our Hiring Process
Spokeo may use artificial intelligence-enabled tools to support portions of the recruiting process. These tools may help our recruiting team organize, review, and summarize application materials, candidate experience, and interview information. They may also identify potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials for further human review.
AI-enabled tools assist our recruiting team but do not replace human judgment. Employment decisions are made by people based on a candidate’s qualifications and the role's requirements.
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Skills Required
- 7+ years of production data engineering development experience, excluding internships and academic settings
- Experience working with datasets exceeding 100 million records or multiple terabytes
- 5+ years developing highly scalable distributed systems and cluster architectures using AWS and EMR
- 5+ years of hands-on programming experience with Python
- 5+ years of professional experience with big data ecosystems
- Professional experience with Apache Spark; PySpark preferred
- 5+ years of experience with SQL, schema design, and dimensional data modeling
- 5+ years of professional experience with dataflow orchestration tools such as Airflow
- 2+ years of experience with non-relational databases such as DynamoDB or Elasticsearch
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a related field
Spokeo Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Spokeo and has not been reviewed or approved by Spokeo.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as a standout, with medical, dental, and vision described as fully employer-paid for employees. This materially increases the overall value of the total rewards package beyond base salary.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are framed as expansive through an advertised unlimited PTO policy plus paid holidays. The practical value is portrayed as potentially high, especially when paired with a remote-friendly setup.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is included via a 401(k) with matching referenced as part of the package for eligible roles. This adds longer-term value, although the exact match formula and eligibility are presented as details to confirm.
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What We Do
Spokeo is a people search engine that helps over 18 million monthly visitors reconnect with friends, reunite with families, and protect against fraud. Additionally, our 12 billion records and over 250 million unique profiles help business professionals locate people and assets, research criminal investigation subjects, and more. Founded in 2006, we have grown to a remote-first company of nearly 200 dedicated employees with an average tenure of 4.5 years. Find out why we were named a “Best Company” for 2023 by Comparably for Women, Compensation, Happiest Employees, Company Perks & Benefits, and Work-Life Balance, as well as “Best CEO” for co-founder Harrison Tang.
Why Work With Us
Our mission is to advance transparency, and to achieve that goal, we rally around six core values: listening with empathy, understanding the why, clarifying with data, innovating to learn, collaborating to achieve, and insisting on quality.
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