Saturday, 2 August 2014

Senior Database Platform Engineer - Big Data Platform | Netflix, Inc. | Los Gatos, CA


Senior Database Platform Engineer - Big Data Platform | Netflix, Inc. | Los Gatos, CA


Engineering

Senior Database Platform Engineer - Big Data Platform

Cloud and Platform Engineering

Los Gatos, CA

At Netflix, we are building our big data analytics platform in the cloud using open source technologies like Hadoop, Hive, Pig with traditional analytical tools like Teradata. We provide a reliable platform for Data Science and Engineering teams to gain product and consumer insights from a petabyte scale data-warehouse. We strive to build the best-of-class big data platform and be the reference architecture in the cloud!

We are looking for a Senior Database Platform Engineer with background in Administrating and Monitoring of Large Data Warehouses running on Teradata Database and Amazon Redshift.

As a platform engineer you will oversee Netflix's Teradata and Redshift infrastructure, find ways to continuously improve and scale  data pipelines in and out of these systems. You will also be monitoring databases, helping developers optimize SQL queries and writing tools to automate processes interacting with the systems.

Qualifications:

- 7+ years of relevant Database Platform Support experience
- Deep understanding of the workings of a Massive Parallel Processing Database System with focus on Teradata and Redshift
- Provide preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, and quick resolution of routine problems to ensure Database infrastructure and application stability
- Experience with creating data pipelines between various systems using native connectors, scoop and/or other tools
- Experience with distributed analytic processing technologies (Hadoop, Hive, MapReduce, etc)
- Experience in building tools to automate or monitor large scale distributed systems
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Thrive working in a fast-paced, evolving, growing, and dynamic environment
- Interested in working with open source technologies like Hadoop and love to build software in the cloud.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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