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Backend Engineer (Intermediate)

Min Experience

5 years

Location

remote

JobType

full-time

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About the role

About Beatport For over 20 years, Beatport has been the global leader in DJ and club culture, pushing the boundaries of dance music to all corners of the world. Created by DJs for DJs, Beatport has always been dedicated to innovating new products and services to support evolving generations of music performers and producers. The Beatport Group includes some of the best-known brands in DJ culture, including Beatport, Beatsource, Loopmasters, Plugin Boutique, Loopcloud, Beatport Streaming, Ampsuite, LabelRadar, Beatport.io & The International Music Summit (IMS). We are consistently looking for bright, creative professionals with diverse perspectives and backgrounds. The Role We are looking to hire a talented Backend Data Engineer. This role requires an experienced background in designing, developing and documenting data ecosystems that are highly scalable, robust, efficient and performant while solving primary business problems and offering excellent user experiences. Our business is engaged in the entire stack of software technologies from data storage and reporting, to middle layer APIs and hardware embedded SDK's, to reactive single-page web and mobile applications that stream music with fluid interfaces. The backend data engineer's role is to build & manage APIs as well as our data warehouses, models and repositories so that they reliably answer questions needed for our business and software operations. Where you come in This is a high impact role in a growing company. You'll work directly with the data engineering team to plan and execute our software development goals every quarter. You'll work alongside the product team to understand and translate their vision into working models, and work on databases, data pipelines and products to assist the teams in accomplishing their objectives. *This role requires eligibility to live and work in the United States or Canada without need for visa sponsorship. The right Backend Data Engineer can be purely remote from anywhere in the Pacific North West (WA, OR, BC). As a Backend Data Engineer you are accountable for: Developing software on a daily basis through the backend of our stack (DB's to API's including tests) Planning and designing RDBMS and data warehouses, data models, repositories and pipelines with best practices for performance and scalability Researching and prototyping to show proof-of-concept implementations for planned systems Building integrations and data sources for reporting and analytics tools Writing SQL, building and automating ETL and transaction jobs, auditing data cohesion and investigating discrepancies Planning and implementing disaster recovery, security, data quality and other data governance facets Collaborating with the product owners on a frequent basis regarding planned features and user stories Working with the data operations team and lead data scientists to build and support datasets for specialized applications Create and maintain documentation for APIs, data pipelines, data models and data dictionaries As a Backend Data Engineer you will require: A track record in employing industry best practices for database design and development 5+ years of programming SQL-based data access against RDBMS database systems such as MS SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres or Oracle 5+ years of experience with business intelligence solutions such as Snowflake, Pentaho, Looker, etc. 3+ years application development experience in either Python or C# 3+ years of experience with cloud data products, pipelines & solutions such as BigQuery, Firehose/Glue/Kineses, BigTable/Spanner, Firebase, Cloud Run, etc.. Knowledge and experience of basic database techniques such as query plan analysis, index tuning, bulk operations, transaction isolation levels, replication, etc. Strong knowledge of NoSQL databases and document storage concepts Knowledge of Django, n/j/Hibernate, Entity Framework or other ORM's, and any other RDBMS or NoSQL databases would be a plus Experience with stateful apps on Kubernetes preferred Positive attitude, reliable, self-motivated, team player with excellent communication skills and a solution-seeking mindset Comfortable working as part of a distributed team *Experience with music streaming, audio technologies, AI/ML on GCP, or previous roles in the music industry are all great bonuses to bring to the role.

About the company

For over 20 years, Beatport has been the global leader in DJ and club culture, pushing the boundaries of dance music to all corners of the world. Created by DJs for DJs, Beatport has always been dedicated to innovating new products and services to support evolving generations of music performers and producers. The Beatport Group includes some of the best-known brands in DJ culture, including Beatport, Beatsource, Loopmasters, Plugin Boutique, Loopcloud, Beatport Streaming, Ampsuite, LabelRadar, Beatport.io & The International Music Summit (IMS). We are consistently looking for bright, creative professionals with diverse perspectives and backgrounds.

Skills

sql
python
c#
bigquery
kineses
bigdata
sql-server
mysql
postgres
nosql