Web Spiders
Website:
webspiders.com
Job details:
Web Spiders is looking for a
Senior AWS EMR Engineer with strong hands-on experience in
AWS EMR, Apache Spark, Hadoop, and large-scale distributed data processing.
The ideal candidate will have experience building, managing, optimizing, and troubleshooting
production-grade data processing workloads on AWS, with a strong understanding of EMR clusters, Spark workloads, data pipelines, performance optimization, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
If
AWS EMR + Spark/Hadoop is your core expertise, we'd love to hear from you.
5+ Years Experience | Kolkata – Work from Office
Core Stack: AWS EMR
- Apache Spark
- Hadoop
- S3
- Glue
- Airflow/MWAA
- Step Functions
- Immediate joiners preferred.*
Working Hours: Ability to work in the US Eastern Time Zone. Depending on project requirements, this may be adjusted to a half-day IST + half-day US EST schedule.
What You'll Do
- Design, develop, deploy, and optimize large-scale data processing workloads using AWS EMR and Apache Spark.
- Build and maintain distributed data processing solutions using Spark/Hadoop.
- Develop and optimize Spark jobs for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Work with PySpark/Scala for distributed data processing and transformation.
- Configure and manage EMR clusters based on workload and processing requirements.
- Optimize Spark applications, including resource utilization, partitioning, joins, caching, and execution performance.
- Troubleshoot EMR, Spark, Hadoop, and production data-processing issues.
- Work with Amazon S3 as a scalable data lake/storage layer.
- Integrate EMR workloads with AWS services such as Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, and Airflow/MWAA.
- Monitor data-processing workloads and implement appropriate logging, error handling, and operational controls.
- Optimize cloud workloads for performance, scalability, reliability, and AWS cost.
- Collaborate with Data Engineering, Cloud, AI/ML, and Product teams to deliver reliable data-processing solutions.
Must-Have Skills
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in Data Engineering / Big Data Engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS EMR.
- Strong experience with Apache Spark and distributed data processing.
- Strong understanding of Hadoop ecosystem and distributed computing concepts.
- Strong programming experience with PySpark and/or Scala.
- Experience working with Amazon S3 and AWS-based data lakes.
- Experience troubleshooting and optimizing Spark/EMR workloads.
- Strong understanding of ETL/ELT concepts and large-scale data processing.
- Experience with production data pipelines and performance optimization.
Good To Have
- AWS Glue
- Apache Airflow / MWAA
- AWS Step Functions
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon Redshift
- Experience with Spark performance tuning and cluster optimization.
- Experience with CI/CD and deployment of data-processing applications.
- AWS Certified Data Engineer or another relevant AWS certification.
Interview Process
- Application review
- 5–10 minute initial screening call with the TA team
- Technical interviews {Domain specific}
- Practical test conducted in the presence of a panel member
- Role match & offer
Click on Apply to know more.