Senior Data Engineer

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About Us

The Athletic is a direct-to-consumer digital sports media company committed to helping subscribers experience storytelling in a whole new way. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, The Athletic has more than 575 full-time employees and covers more than 250 professional sports and collegiate teams in the US, Canada and the UK. The Athletic’s newsroom has produced thousands of in-depth articles along with more than 120 podcasts and premium video content.


About the Role

We're building a modern data stack powering an analytics platform, product tools, and machine learning deployments, all hosted on AWS. We have lots of exciting things we want to build and we don't have enough time to build them. That's where you come in! 

You'll be joining a small data team of engineers and scientists using cutting edge technology to build and deploy the tools that provide ML insights to our platform.  We’re building a product for sports fans, and it is growing fast! You should be interested in building systems for scale, performance, and reliability. We all wear a lot of hats, so you’ll have the opportunity to work on database administration, ETL, microservice and model deployment, testing, experiments, and more depending on your interests.  We’re a team of generalists interested in continuously learning new areas and we’ll expect you to be one as well. Our team is always experimenting and we trust and encourage our engineers to dream up and try out their own ideas and features.

Responsibilities

  • Work with Data Science, and Product teams to build and deploy features backed by machine learning and modern data toolsets
  • Architect and build data pipelines to optimize for performance, data quality, scalability, ease of future development, and cost
  • Build tools and datamarts to enable analytics at a deeper level
  • Investigate, debug, and fix user-reported production issues
  • Provide mentorship and guidance to other team members
  • Work with team to influence technology direction
  • Ideate and suggest product improvements and features through a symbiotic relationship with Product team

    • Requirements

  • 4+ years data engineering experience 
  • Bachelor's degree in CS or relevant discipline
  • Experience with Python, SQL, Docker, and AWS environment
  • Experience with Redshift, Kubernetes, and Spark desired
  • Passion for sports is understandable, but not required
  • This role will be based out of our San Francisco headquarters
    • The Company is backed by Founders Fund, Evolution Media, Courtside Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Bedrock Capital, Advancit Capital, Y Combinator, and other leading investors. The Athletic is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The Athletic was awarded a 2020 Great Place to Work.

    The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. The Athletic will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.