Sr. Data Engineer

Aura is on a mission to create a safer internet.  In a world where our lives are increasingly online, Aura's category-defining suite of intelligent digital safety products help millions of customers protect themselves against digital threats, and that number is growing rapidly.  This is an exciting phase at Aura, and our team of over 600 people worldwide is guided by a leadership slate that's successfully grown startups into multi-billion dollar organizations. 

Come join us for the ride!

About the Role:

At Aura, data is at the core of most of decision making and our Data Platform is one of the pillars supporting the company’s growth.  The data that passes through the Platform are used by both internal and external customers. We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help us continue improving the architecture, enhance, and maintain the Data Platform.   

Day to Day:

• Design, build, deploy, and support scalable pipelines (scaling in both volume and variety of data sources)

• Enhance and maintain the infrastructure powering our analytics and data products

• Drive data quality across the organization; develop best practices and frameworks for unit, functional and integration tests for our team's test coverage and automation

• Define and manage SLAs for data sets and processes running in production

• Contribute to enhancements of Data Governance

• Evaluate, recommend, and build prototypes of new data engineering technology

• Participate in technical architecture discussions and peer code reviews

What you bring to the table:

• 5+ years of experience as a data engineer working with a modern tech stack

• Proficiency in batch processing technologies such as Spark and Airflow 

• Track record of architecting, designing, and deploying high performance systems with reliable monitoring and logging practices

• Knowledge of Python, scala, Spark, and SQL

• Strong communication skills

It would be great if you also had:

• Knowledge of container services (Docker/Kubernetes)

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