Remote Data Engineer

Description:

• Yubo is a Social Discovery app aimed at helping users make new friends and socialize online without likes and follows.
• The company is committed to creating a safe digital space for its community, focusing on user protection, support, and education.
• The Data Engineer role involves working in a fast-paced environment, supporting product squads in prototyping and deploying new data models.
• The position is part of the Infrastructure team, allowing for real ownership in designing data models from scratch and overseeing their production.
• Responsibilities include building and maintaining high-throughput data pipelines, co-designing data models, ensuring data quality, and documenting processes.
• The role requires collaboration with ML engineers and backend teams to ensure sustainable architecture and data integrity.
• Tools used include Kafka, MongoDB, Couchbase, and Kubernetes operators, among others.
• The position emphasizes the importance of privacy and compliance with data protection regulations, especially concerning children's online safety.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have over 5 years of experience building and scaling production data pipelines.
• Strong expertise in Kafka and knowledge of parallelization and event ordering is required.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python is essential.
• Applicants should be comfortable owning the data model from architecture documentation to deployment.
• The ability to collaborate across teams in fast-paced environments is necessary.
• Understanding the complexities of high-throughput systems and maintaining their reliability is crucial.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken, is required.

Benefits:

• The position offers a highly competitive salary and equity in the company.
• There is a flexible remote work policy, requiring only 2 days in the office per month, along with monthly team events.
• Yubo covers fees for external professional events and meetups.
• Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees and their families is fully paid for by Yubo.
• Additional benefits for parents include extra parental leave and access to nurseries and daycare facilities in France.
• Employees can enjoy a cool workplace in Paris, participate in team activities, and benefit from wellness programs and mental well-being initiatives.