Manager of Data Engineering
United States - Remote
JW Player
JW Player is the #1 end-to-end video streaming solution to scale your video strategy, maximize engagement, & monetize your video content.JW Player is a technology platform that powers billions of video streams every week for a wide array of video publishers and broadcasters worldwide. Our massive scale as a video platform results in an equally massive scale for our data, with millions of events collected from our flagship video player every minute. The Data Engineering team at JW Player is responsible for ingesting and processing that incoming stream, and more broadly also empowering folks across the company to leverage data in building products or answering questions in accurate, reliable, scalable fashion.
As a Manager of Data Engineering at JW Player, you’ll work with cutting-edge big data tools and technology, partnering closely with data engineers and other software teams to solve critical challenges for one of the largest and fastest-growing video companies in the world.
As a Manager of Data Engineering, you will:
- Manage a team of data engineers, including planning and execution of technical projects
- Support the development and success of team members individually
- Contribute to development of distributed batch and real-time data infrastructure
- Work closely with product managers, analysts, and others to gather data needed to understand various products
- Partner with product teams to improve existing data products and develop new ones
- Develop goals for the team aligned with the priorities of the company
- Provide vision for the team’s technical and operational success
Who You Are:
- 5+ years of data engineering experience
- Experience leading software engineering teams
- Great organization skills, ability to lead multidisciplinary projects
- Experience and/or training with agile methodologies
- High proficiency in Python and SQL
- Humility, empathy, and a collaborative spirit
Bonus Points:
- Experience with data tools like Spark, Kafka, Flink
- Familiarity with AWS - in particular, EC2, S3, RDS, and EMR
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Apache Airflow
- Proficiency in Java or Javascript
- Experience working on a platform team providing tools and services for other engineering teams
- Interest in or experience with building data products
About JW Player
JW Player pioneered video on the web over a decade ago and continues to innovate as the world’s largest network-independent platform for video delivery and intelligence. Media companies including Fox, VICE, Business Insider, and Univision, in addition to hundreds of thousands of creators of all types and sizes, rely on JW Player to deliver and monetize their content across all devices. JW Player’s massive global footprint of over 2 billion unique devices creates a powerful data graph of unique consumer insights and generates billions of incremental video views. The company is headquartered in New York, with offices in London and Eindhoven, and was named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™ in 2018. For more information, visit http://www.jwplayer.com.
Our Perks
When you join JW Player, you are not just joining a company or a team but a family. Our goal is to take care of you and ensure you will be successful in your new role. Your success is our success. When you join us, your benefits kick in from day one!
- Medical, Vision and Dental Coverage through Empire BlueCross
- Open PTO Policy - Self care is IMPORTANT!
- Development Program
- An opportunity to make an impact in a fast paced environment
- Bi - Annual Hack Weeks
- AMA (Ask Me Anything) and Fireside chats with Executives & JW Player family
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰
Tags: Agile Airflow AWS Big Data Docker EC2 Engineering Flink JavaScript Kafka Kubernetes Python Spark SQL
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