Job Description:

• Data Engineers are responsible for building high-quality backend data services, pipelines, and platforms. Our engineering teams in the Global Data Assets organization cover a broad range of domains relevant to agriculture, constructing reusable data APIs and analytics solutions used to power our internal and external experiences.
• The Senior Staff Data Engineer will contribute to solution design and build, while helping to define and drive best practices within the team.

Responsibilities:

• Be a critical senior member of a data engineering team focused on creating distributed analysis capabilities around a large variety of datasets
• Take pride in software craftsmanship, apply a deep knowledge of algorithms and data structures to continuously improve and innovate
• Work with other top-level talent solving a wide range of complex and unique challenges that have real world impact
• Explore relevant technology stacks to find the best fit for each dataset
• Pursue opportunities to present our work at relevant technical conferences
• Google Cloud Next 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqvuyOID6v4
• GraphConnect 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KEvLURBenM
• Google Cloud Blog: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/google-kubernetes-engine-clusters-can-have-up-to-15000-nodes
• Project your talent into relevant projects. Strength of ideas trumps position on an org chart

Experience:

• At least 7 years experience in software engineering
• At least 2 years experience with Go
• Proven experience (2 years) building and maintaining data-intensive APIs using a RESTful approach
• Experience with stream processing using Apache Kafka
• A level of comfort with Unit Testing and Test Driven Development methodologies
• Familiarity with creating and maintaining containerized application deployments with a platform like Docker
• A proven ability to build and maintain cloud based infrastructure on a major cloud provider like AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform
• Experience data modeling for large scale databases, either relational or NoSQL

Skills:

• Experience with protocol buffers and gRPC
• Experience with: Google Cloud Platform, Apache Beam and or Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Kubernetes Engine or Kubernetes
• Experience working with scientific datasets, or a background in the application of quantitative science to business problems
• Bioinformatics experience, especially large scale storage and data mining of variant data, variant annotation, and genotype to phenotype correlation

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, or a related discipline;

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