Associate Engineer, Data

Job Description:

Rakuten Viki is a global entertainment streaming platform that specializes in Asian content. Our platform enables millions of viewers to discover and enjoy primetime shows and movies, subtitled in over 200 languages. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, we also have offices in Singapore, Seoul, and Shanghai, ensuring a strong global presence and a deep connection to the heart of Asian entertainment. Our platform is home to a large and loyal community of fans who share a passion for Asian culture and entertainment. Join us in our mission to unite the world through the love of Asian entertainment. At Rakuten Viki, we offer a chance to be part of a global community that celebrates culture, creativity, and connection.

Rakuten International oversees 7 businesses with over 4,000 employees globally. The brand is recognized for its leadership and innovation in e-commerce, digital content, advertising, entertainment and communications, bringing the joy of discovery and access to more than 1 billion members across the world. Our teams deliver on the company’s mission to delight merchants and customers through innovation, optimism, and teamwork.

Based in Singapore, this role will report to the Engineering Manager.

Key Responsibilities:

- Translating the pipelines into reusable and scalable data pipelines and frameworks for ingestion, processing, storage and consumption

- Perform root cause analysis on internal and external data systems to answer specific business questions

- Improving and maintaining the existing application & workflows’ correctness, performance, SLAs and architecture’s integrity

- Upholding adherence to the right data engineering practices while building the data systems and pipelines, such as writing clean, efficient code, proper automation testing, CI / CD, logging, monitoring and alerting

- Participate in code reviews and ensuring high standards of code quality, in addition to ensuring that development guidelines are followed

Requirements:

- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or a related field, or a strong past work experience in building software systems or products

- Fresh graduates are also encouraged to apply and will be considered

- Prior experience or knowledge with a backend or data engineering stack, language/framework, databases, cloud technologies, version control, deployment practices

- Good communication skills and are able to explain technical concepts or issues to the senior members of the team

Rakuten provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. Rakuten considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.