Senior Data Engineer

DescriptionAre you passionate about empowering teams to make data-driven decisions? Do you find yourself excited about the possibilities that more data can unlock? Payscale is seeking a seasoned engineer to join our Data Engineering Team. Our team focuses on enabling fast, accurate, and reliable access to data by building robust data pipelines, managing our data warehouse, and supporting the productization of our data. Responsibilities:  

• Manage the data warehouse. 
• Maintain and build new data pipelines. 
• Partner with our platform, architectural and product development teams to design and influence modern architectural solutions. 
• Collaborate with various teams (Data Science, Data Analytics, Application Engineering, Sales, Customer-Facing Teams) to meet their data access needs. 
• Evangelize best practices for data utilization, data modeling, cost efficiency, and query optimization among stakeholders, junior engineers, and warehouse consumers. 
• Research and advise on modern data engineering techniques. 
• Build and support tools and services for data management, monitoring, and productization. 
• Recommend and implement tools and technologies to support PayScale's evolving data needs. 
• Oversee data hygiene and conduct cost analysis. 

Technologies We Use:  

• Data Warehousing and Reporting: Snowflake, Spark, Tableau 
• ETL and Pipelining: Fivetran, Python, TeamCity, AWS Lambda 
• Additional Technologies: C#, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, Redis, DynamoDB, SQL Server, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Octopus Deploy 

   Requirements:  

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. 
• 5+ years of experience in data warehousing and data engineering. 
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake data warehouse platform for data storage, retrieval, and analysis. 
• Experience in optimizing data workflows, ensuring data quality, and managing data transformations within Snowflake or similar platforms. 
• Expert level programming skills in Python, SQL 
• Experience in building AI/ML retraining pipelines 

  Preferred Qualifications:  

• Experience in designing and deploying APIs in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) while considering scalability and elasticity requirements. 
• Proficiency in machine learning development, including experience with training, fine-tuning, and validating ML models using frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar.  
• In-depth knowledge of AI/ML model evaluation, optimization, and deployment strategies.  
• Strong understanding of vector databases and their application in AI/ML model storage and retrieval.  
• Experience in utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer), BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers), LLaMa (Meta AI), or similar models in real-world applications.  
• Proficiency in fine-tuning and deploying LLMs for various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, such as text generation, summarization, sentiment analysis, or language translation.  

  Compensation   For roles with compensation ranges:  In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the monthly base salary range for this position is 24,625 - 36,942 RON, exclusive of fringe benefits or potential bonuses. If you are hired at Payscale, your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills, education, and/or experience. In addition to those factors – we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider any internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer. Please keep in mind that the range mentioned above is the full base salary range for the role. Hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical in order to allow for future & continued salary growth. We also offer a generous compensation and benefits package (more information on benefits listed below).  
  About Payscale  As the industry leader in compensation management, Payscale is on a mission to help job seekers, employees, and businesses get pay right and to make sustainable fair pay a reality. Empowering more than 65% of the Fortune 500, Payscale provides a combination of diverse and dynamic data sources, experienced compensation services, and scalable software to enable organizations such as Angel City Football Club, Panasonic, Mars Global, eBay, American Airlines and PetSmart to make fair and appropriate pay decisions.  Pay is powerful. To learn more, visit www.payscale.com.   Location  Payscale Romania has an employee centric hybrid model that provides you the flexibility to do your best work in a space that supports you, while also finding time to collaborate in person in our office for the moments that matter.  
 
In our hybrid model, employees can work from the location that works best for them when not in the office.   When you work from home, we recommend ensuring that you can meet the following technology, equipment and workspace requirements: 

• High-Speed Internet - A stable broadband or fiber connection (satellite is highly discouraged) with a minimum speed of 100 Mbps in a dedicated workspace that has a reliable Wi-Fi signal.  

• Device for Multifactor Authentication (MFA/2FA) - smartphone, tablet, etc. 

When it matters (usually no more than a few times a year) we take the time to gather in larger groups for in-person events. Payscale has employees across the US, Canada, UK, and Romania however we are currently unable to hire in the Quebec Province, Northern Ireland, and Hawaii.    Benefits and Perks    All around awesome culture where together we strive to live our 5 values:  

• Respect every individual, work as a team  

• Be Customer first, customer centric  

• Have a Bias towards action  

• Commit to excellence (we give our best everyday)  

• Make Data driven decisions  

An open and inclusive environment where you’ll learn and grow through programs and resources like:   

• Monthly company All Hands meetings  

• Regular opportunities for executive leadership exposure through things like AMAs  

• Access to continued learning & development opportunities   

• Our commitment to a continuous feedback culture which allows us to drive performance and career growth  

• A growing network of Employee Resource Groups  

• Company sponsored volunteer hours  

• And more!   

 Our more standard benefits  

• 15 paid Romania public holidays + 2 additional Payscale holidays (Global Mental Health Day & US Independence Day) 

• 25 paid days of additional leave  

• Supplemental medical covered by Payscale for employees 

• Employees can add supplemental for family/spouse/dependents at their own expense 

• Additional days of per RO Labor Code that are not included in holidays & additional leave days 

Equal Opportunity Employer:   We embrace equal employment opportunity. Payscale is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. It is our policy that employees will not be subjected to unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, marital status, sexual orientation, political ideology, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to: recruitment, hiring, transfers, promotions, training, discipline, termination, compensation and benefits, performance appraisals, education, and social and recreational programs.  We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you.If you have a disability or impairment and need assistance with the application process, please email recruiting@payscale.com for support.   Fraud Alert:   Payscale values security and privacy. During your job application and interview process, we will never ask for your personal banking or financial information, social security number, or other sensitive information, if you are unsure if a message is from Payscale, please email recruiting@payscale.com