Senior Data Engineer

Job Description

Overview 

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces.  Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.  

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers.  We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors.  We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation.  This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors.  By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.   

HOMES.COM Overview 

Homes.com is already one of the fastest growing real estate portals in the industry, we are driven to be #1. Just ask Brad Bellflower, Chief Change Officer at Apartments.com. After its acquisition in 2014, Apartments.com quickly turned into the most popular place to find a place. Proven success at the highest level – and we’re doing it again with the new Homes.com product. Homes.com is a CoStar Group company with 20+ years' experience in leading and growing digital marketplaces. We pride ourselves on continually improving, innovating, and setting the standard for property search and marketing experiences. With Homes.com we’re building a brand on the cusp of defining the industry. We’re looking for big thinkers, brave leaders, and creative advertising wizards ready to influence a new age of homebuying within a tried-and-true, award-winning company.  

Learn more about Homes.com.  

Homes.com is growing quickly and we’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help accelerate our growth. This role will be responsible for helping build out sitewide tracking architecture on Homes.com, and then feeding that data into user-friendly KPI dashboards which track site performance and, product usage, and provides day to day insights on consumer behavior. This individual will help build out the analytics team for Homes.com and work across all departments to provide analysis and insights for future growth. You will oversee various aspects of our data management, ranging from designing and maintaining automated data infrastructure and spearheading BI solutions to facilitating data access and analysis for key company teams. 

This position is located in Richmond, VA and offers a hybrid schedule of 4 days onsite, 1 day remote. 

Responsibilities 

• Designing, building, testing and deploying scalable, reusable and maintainable applications that handle substantial amounts of data. 

• Taking full ownership of your work from development and testing to eventual deployment and support in production. 

• Collaborating with other engineers, product owners, designers, and leadership. 

• Becoming a trusted team member in matters of technical architecture, design and code. 

• Advocating for evolution and improvement - both technical and non-technical - within our teams. Includes new tech, tools and best practices. 

Basic Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university or college, with degree preferably in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field.  

• A track record of commitment to prior employers  

• A demonstrable record of accomplishment of building and launching successful products that use terabytes of data 

• 5+ years of data pipeline engineering experience, and/or deep database engineering experience 

• Ability to analyze technical requirements and design new architectures, data models and ETL strategies 

• Hands-on experience with cloud-based relational and non-relational databases and proficiency in SQL. 

• Deliver work products that meet specifications, are free of defects, with excellent performance 

Preferred Skills 

• Performance tuning of database queries (SQL Server or PostgreSQL), database design, monitoring, and analysis 

• Experience with No-SQL databases (e.g. DynamoDB) 

• Experience with data pipeline tools (e.g. Glue, Step Functions, Lambda) 

• Experience using Confluent Kafka 

• Knowledge and/or experience working with Apache Spark/Databricks 

• Monitoring & dashboard metric management (e.g. CloudWatch, Kibana) 

What’s in it for You 

When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed. 

We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program. 

Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to): 

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug 

• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance 

• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family 

• Commuter and parking benefits 

• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions 

• Employee stock purchase plan 

• Paid time off 

• Tuition reimbursement 

• On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes 

• Access to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups 

• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks 

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply.  However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position. 

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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing