Principal Data Engineer

Verusen is a leading technology company that uses artificial intelligence to provide visibility, digitization and prediction of materials data and inventory for complex supply chains. The company’s AI software harmonizes disparate material data across ERP instances/systems while providing accurate MDM across the enterprise to optimize inventory costs. Intelligent controls enforce inventory procedures to help prevent future inventory spikes, while predictive capabilities optimize allocation and procurement needs. The result is a data foundation you can trust to move quickly to innovate and support related Industry 4.0 initiatives.

Verusen is venture-backed by leading investors from San Francisco to Boston, and is a Signature Company at Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC). Partnerships including SAP and Accenture. Verusen is a portfolio company of SAP.iO.

Join Verusen as a Principal Data Engineer and experience the impact you will contribute to our thriving, growing business transforming modern supply chain management through our innovative approach to materials management.  We are looking to grow our team of seasoned engineers to increase our capacity to provide leading services for our expanding customer base.

As a Principal Data Engineer in our supportive team culture, you will be responsible for crafting and advancing effective and efficient solutions to achieve a variety of data transformation and processing goals including data lakes, pipelines, ingestion APIs, data modeling/transfer, microservices and service-oriented architecture.  Your creativity and initiative to autonomously deliver solutions from idea to implementation will propel our exciting organization into the future.

Our Core Values

• Good Humans - Our impact should enable the well-being and aspirations of our employees, our customers, our shareholders, and our community
• Innovation - We strive to be on the cutting edge and embrace change as opportunities to venture for greatness
• Accountability - We are accountable to each other built on a foundation of trust
• Empathy - We practice and strive for greater empathy believing in a collaborative approach to solving problems and amplifying value
• Bias Toward Action - We are biased towards action taking imperative to build, implement, adapt, and resolve

What You’ll Do

• Build and monitor automation for data in motion and data at rest, transforming a variety of raw customer data into consistent, organized data stores utilizing leading edge methods and technologies.
• Challenge yourself to develop and advance algorithms to maximize efficiency and automation to provide scalability for our rapidly expanding enterprise.
• Design, develop and implement effective and scalable data ingestion APIs, providing flexibility for a variety of customer environments.
• Collaborate with other engineers on research, initiatives and projects, clearly communicating progress, blockers and FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt).
• Actively contribute your talents and creativity in our self-directed, cross-domain Agile pods.
• As a Principal level Data Engineer, we will look to you to:
• Be an organizational subject matter expert that drives global innovation.
• Drive organizational level standards, best practices, and critical compliance needs.
• Collaborate with many cross-functional teams to help solve both business and engineering challenges.
• Develop end-to-end contributions.
• Lead the technical decision-making process as well as building consensus around a solution.
• Utilize a mentoring mindset to advance the proficiency of others.
• Model and drive best practices and challenge the status quo to improve team processes with demonstrable, positive results.
• Define Acceptance Criteria.

Who You Are

• You are a good human, eagerly embracing and implementing Verusen’s core values.
• You live your life through curiosity instead of validation by being right.
• You understand how to build secure and scalable architectures capable of ingesting and operating on millions of rows of data.
• Python and/or Java development proficiency to accurately transform and ingest large data structures.
• SQL expertise to provide strong technical data analysis to help support and troubleshoot data transformations and ingestion.
• Airflow and Linux shell scripting experience to organize and control data processing pipelines.
• Significant experience implementing and building solutions with complex data structures, data algorithms and data lakes.
• Thorough understanding of Git version control.
• GitLab pipeline experience is advantageous.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.  Must be able to clearly articulate concepts and details involved in processing critical customer data.
• Ability to adapt in a fast-moving and changing environment as our team and our product grows.
• Experience working in an Agile environment utilizing tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Partnering with Data Science to collaborate on solutions for AI and ML.
• Working knowledge of technologies such as Docker, AWS and S3 is very desirable.
• Familiarity with dbt, Hadoop, Snowflake, Kubernetes, Kafka, Java and Redshift is a bonus.
• Natural language processing (NLP) experience a plus
• Principal level candidates demonstrate:
• Master-level expertise in Data Engineering.
• Strategic mindset and strong decision making skills in ambiguous situations.
• Teamwork with other developers and designers in planning, designing and building best of breed solutions.
• Effective communication in partnering well with other disciplines of the project team to deliver high quality solutions from ideation to production.
• Ability to translate customer requirements into feature ideas and designs.
• Proven experience in hands-on, in-depth analysis, review, reverse engineering, and design of software.
• Strong understanding of the value of the Verusen platform within industry.

What We Offer

• Highly competitive compensation 
• A dynamic, fun start-up culture 
• Equity incentives 
• Work Flexibility 
• Free Parking 
• Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K benefits 
• Paid Holidays and unlimited PTO 
• Great work/life balance 
• Office in ATDC at Georgia Tech 

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Verusen, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We respect and seek to empower each individual and support a diverse culture, perspectives, skills, and experiences within our workforce.  We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates are critical to our success, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.