Raptive is looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join us as we expand product offerings for our publishers into the affiliate commerce space, helping creators who have authority and expertise in particular subject areas diversify and increase their revenue.
As a Data Engineer in the Affiliate Commerce Team, you’ll design scalable, reliable, maintainable, and extensible systems to ingest data from a variety of sources, make connections, generate insights, and integrate with our products. You’ll be instrumental in collaboratively delivering a meaningful new product and business opportunity that supports the open web.What you’ll be doing:
- Maintain existing data pipelines and develop new ones to integrate data from various external and internal sources via APIs, Airbyte, and data lakes.
- Participate in the design and refinement of data systems and infrastructure to ensure scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
- Monitor the performance of data pipelines and databases, optimizing and enhancing as needed to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation for data systems and pipelines.
- Engage regularly with internal stakeholders to understand their data requirements, update them on pipeline developments, and gather feedback to continuously improve data services.
- Build and optimize data transformation pipelines using dbt, orchestrated via Airflow (using Cosmos), to ensure high-quality, single-source-of-truth reporting.
- Independently manage significant technical tasks while collaborating closely with software engineers and other technical teams on data requirements and integration strategies.
- Develop scalable, efficient, and easily maintainable data pipelines using advanced technologies and frameworks.
The skills and experience you bring to the job:
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS (specifically Lambda, Kinesis Firehose and S3), Snowflake, and dbt.
- Advanced skills in Python and SQL for custom scripting and data manipulation.
- Experience with Snowpark or familiarity with Spark DataFrames.
- Proficient in working with various types of APIs, including REST and GraphQL.
- A keen eye for maintaining high data quality across diverse sources and complex transformations.
- Ability to work independently and drive projects forward while also engaging effectively in collaborative team environments.
Additional Preferred Skills:
- Understanding of DevOps practices and experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform.
- Ability to work with CI/CD pipelines, specifically with GitHub Actions.
- Knowledge of machine learning techniques and their application in data processing or predictive analytics.
- Experience with real-time data processing tools and methodologies.
- Background in building and maintaining data warehouses and data lakes, ensuring robust and scalable data storage solutions.
About Raptive Raptive’s mission is to power creator independence. We’re a creator company that provides revenue, audience, business solutions, and much more for creators and enterprise publishers. Since the very beginning of digital content creation, we’ve been allies and advocates for every kind of creator and charted the uncharted to help creators grow their businesses through it all. Today we are the catalyst for 5,000+ of the world’s most premium creators on the open web and rank as the tenth-largest digital property in the U.S.
Creators who choose Raptive are premium content creators, trendsetters, iconic brands, and charismatic personalities, captivating more than 78% of U.S. audiences on their sites alone with the power to move and disrupt culture. They collectively rank #1 in Food, Family, Home, and Lifestyle--with a reach of more than 182M monthly unique visitors and more than half a billion followers across social platforms.Creators are the future of media. And together, the future is ours to create. The base salary range for this position is $130,000 - $160,000.
The range provided is Raptive’s reasonable estimate of the annualized base compensation for this role. The actual amount may be higher or lower, based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, geographic location, knowledge, skills and abilities. This role is eligible for additional incentive compensation that isn’t included in the posted range.For more information, visit www.Raptive.com or follow us on LinkedIn or Instagram.Raptive is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We believe we are most impactful when people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and identities come together with a common purpose.
We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Raptive is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please reach out to a member of our recruiting team.
