Adconion Media Group
Data Engineer
Engineering | Santa Monica, CA, United States

The Company:

Adconion Media, Inc. is the largest privately-held independent content distribution and monetization platform in the world. We work with top-tier agencies, advertisers, publishers and content providers and are committed to providing best in-class products, technology and data analysis to create successful online campaigns for hundreds of clients around the world.

The Area: Engineering

The engineering team at Adconion is filled with passionate and smart people that thrive in an atmosphere of change and growth. This growth at Adconion is in part due to our data requirements increasing daily along with our continued dedication to investing in our team and technology.
Bring your passion to solve big problems to our growing team. We may be small, but we are mighty, and you'll be on the front lines tackling the big problems.

You may work on diverse projects from scalability, availability, distributed computing, data mining, allocation, global transactional UIs with YUI, reporting, analytics, pricing, forecasting...there are many opportunities as well as the chance to specialize.

The Role: Data Engineer
Data engineers work closely with business and product stakeholders to find scalable creative solutions that provide insight into our data. You will leverage and extend our technical infrastructure to build the best solutions for your customers. Additionally, you are responsible for uncovering information that provides users with a competitive advantage.

Responsibilities:
  • Participate in the design, implementation, deployment and enhancements of our large scale system.
  • Date engineers have fundamental knowledge in database technology and data processing techniques to extract knowledge from data to power business needs.
  • Data engineers will understand the full pipeline of processing and be able to contribute on all subsystems including ETL, reporting, and analytics.
  • Apply your innovative ideas to extract business information from a sea of data.
  • Interface with decision support APIs from our warehouse and data to power 3rd optimization algorithms.
  • Develop scalable systems and control the costs by finding efficiencies.
  • Implement a high availability system that records all activities and can be launched and maintained by the operations team.
  • Be able to learn and apply new leading edge technologies for constant system improvements.
  • Understand what data the business needs, and translate that need into the appropriate set of ETL, DDL, and scripts to deliver in biweekly development and deployment cycles.
Requirements:
  • Degree (or equivalent): BS, MS or PhD level in Computer Science, EE, or Math, Physics or quantitative discipline.
  • 3+ years experience Postgres/MySQL or similar DBMS required.
  • 3+ years experience with deployments of 5+TB dimensional DW with .5+TB per day ETL.
  • 3+ years multi color fully redundant global deployments.
  • 3+ years experience building and partitioning systems for linear scalability.
  • 2+ years experience with Pig/Hive/Hadoop or similar grid system.
  • 3+ years development experience Java, Python, C++ or equivalent in a Linux environment.
  • Experience with MS BI tools MDX/XMLA cube development a plus.
  • Experience with AWS cloud base operations a plus.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills




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