Data Engineer II

Company: IMVU Inc.
Location: Redwood City
Posted on: June 2, 2021

Job Description:

Engineering | Redwood City, CA | Full Time Job Description Data Engineer II sought by Together Labs, Inc. formerly IMVU, Inc. Design and develop state-of-the-art analytics systems that stores petabyte data and hundreds of GB of transactional data in order to apply machine learning techniques to design powerful and meaningful experience to our users. Conduct research on open source technologies and components to recommend and integrate into the design and implementation; provide professional analysis and guidance on novel data infrastructure, metrics, insights and data services. Build data pipelines to efficiently and reliably move data across systems, as well as build the next generation of data tools that will influence company products, data consumers and analysts. Partner with data analysts, product owners and data scientists to better understand requirements, determine bottlenecks and resolutions; support big data and batch/real time analytical solutions; design and develop different architectural models for our scalable data processing as well as scalable data storage; build data pipelines and extraction, transformation and load (ETL) using heterogeneous sources; build ingestion from various source systems to Hadoop using Kafka, Flume, Sqoop, Spark streaming, etc. Transform data using mapping and data processing capabilities like MapReduce, Spark SQL; ensure platform goes through continuous integration (ci) and continuous deployment (cd) with DevOps automation. Expand and grow data platform capabilities to solve new problems and challenges. Work with development and quality assurance teams to design ingestion pipelines, integration API and provide Hadoop ecosystem services. Basic Academic and Experience Requirements - Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, electronics engineering or a related field. Five years of experience in job offered or as a software consultant, IT analyst or a related occupational title. The skills and experience required below can be acquired concurrently with the number of years of experience required for the position. Three years of experience with Hadoop eco-system including HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, Spark, Kafka. The following experience can be gained through university education or professional experience with no set duration of time as a measure of proficiency. Demonstrated skill in development and automation, including reading and writing Scala, Python or Java codes. Experience building curated models for business intelligence (BI) and analytics. Demonstrated experience utilizing SQL. ABOUT US Based in Silicon Valley, Together Labs (formerly IMVU Inc.) is a leading technology company dedicated to empowering people to connect, create and earn in virtual worlds. Together Labs' products represent the changing landscape of social interaction and redefine human connection. With IMVU, the world's largest avatar social platform and a top-5 grossing app in the App Store, millions of users can customize their characters through a growing catalog of 50 million community created items and explore over 400,000+ destinations to connect to each other. Setting the standard for the use of digital currencies in the metaverse, VCOIN unlocks the full potential of virtual economies and solves the unmet need for easy and secure global peer-to-peer payment. Currently in development, WithMe is a new mobile platform that empowers social connection through shared experiences in virtual spaces. Founded in 2004 and based in the heart of Silicon Valley, Together Labs is led by a team that's dedicated to pioneering the virtual reality industry. Together Labs is backed by venture investors Menlo Ventures, Allegis Capital, Bridgescale Partners and Best Buy Capital. Together Labs (formerly IMVU) has been recognized frequently as Best Place to Work in the Silicon Valley. HOW TO APPLY Please try out our core product before you apply. We'd like you to understand our products and have some understanding of our customers. Please include a cover letter. Make sure to discuss why you are interested in learning more about Together Labs. IMVU is an equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered for all roles without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

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