Description:

We are looking for a world-class engineer to join our data infrastructure team.
Our mission is to drive stability, scalability, and efficiency for the Houzz data ecosystem and build critical systems that provide insights to drive growth and delight our customers.
The right candidate can architect, implement, and be an end-to-end owner across our suite of tools that includes data pipelines, event streaming, and data warehouse/data lake.
Responsibilities include building scalable and reliable data infrastructure that processes petabytes of data.
You will integrate with big data technologies and workflow management frameworks such as EMR, Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Kafka, Trino/Presto, and Airflow.
Automating the process of infrastructure operation such as EMR provisioning and autoscaling is also part of the role.
You will build tools and frameworks for data analysis and create monitoring and alerting processes for the data infrastructure team.
The position requires owning service operation in production, including participating in on-call rotation.
You will work in a small, collaborative team with data engineers, data scientists, designers, and product managers to build an amazing data experience.
Promoting best practices and improving the quality of the internal data products is essential.

Requirements:

Proficiency in a common programming or scripting language (Python, Bash, Java, etc.) is required.
A minimum of 3 years of industry experience building large-scale reliable data backends is necessary.
Experience with big data technology and workflow management frameworks like Apache Flink, Airflow, Apache Spark, Hive, Kafka, Kinesis, etc., is expected.
A good understanding of Linux and Kubernetes, with experience utilizing services from a major cloud provider such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, is required.
Excellent communication, interpersonal, and cross-functional skills are essential.
A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field is required.

Houzz is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, ensuring that your application will be considered regardless of various personal characteristics.
The company embraces and celebrates diversity, fostering an inclusive environment through projects and initiatives that support employees.
Assistance or accommodations due to a disability are available upon request, ensuring confidentiality and appropriate support during the interview process.