What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Data Engineer position at Tilia?
Company Snapshot
Tilia, founded in 2014 and launched in 2019 by Linden Research, Inc., is a licensed money transmitter and registered money services business in the U.S. Tilia enables publishers of video games and virtual worlds to create in-world economies and monetize user interaction. Built to be robust, flexible, and secure, Tilia powers virtual economies of leading and cutting-edge publishers with hundreds of millions of dollars in circulation.
Tilians value a workplace that’s as diverse as our products. As we continue to grow, we remain dedicated to building a company that is rooted in organizational health, strengths-based leadership, and the belief that teams are stronger than individuals.
If you want access to the forefront of payment platforms that supports the creator economy, this is the place for you. We’ve created space for everyone to find belonging and invite you to come as you are.
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build and maintain the critical warehouse infrastructure that supports our team in making smart business decisions. This senior level role reports to the Director, Engineering and establishes database management systems, standards, guidelines and quality assurance for database deliverables. These projects include conceptual design, logical database, capacity planning, external data interface specification, data loading plan, data maintenance plan, and data security policy.
You will be responsible for data infrastructure decisions and architecture proposals and lead the daily development of data products and reports that serve the internal and external clients of the organization.
This role in based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
What We’ll Offer You
The stability of an established company with new startup momentum. An unparalleled opportunity to create relationships, systems, strategy and culture. An environment where your voice will be heard and your impact deeply felt. A sense of belonging where your work is appreciated and rewarded.
As a team, we are highly engaged and iterative in nature, in both our product and our processes. We build cool stuff, we weigh risk/reward, and when we make mistakes, we respond quickly together and without blame. This is a team in the truest sense.
What We’ll Create Together
- Operational excellence and to extend a world class data lake/warehouse in GCP BigQuery
- A seamless process to extract, transform, and load production data into the data warehouse using AirFlow
- A partnership with Producers and Analysts to develop data that supports key metrics and reports for business development for us and our publishers
- An adaptive environment to respond an ever changing production environment, rapidly updating to provide a consistent, accurate view of our data
- A strong working relationships with Directors and CTO on key projects
What You’ll Bring to the Team
At Tilia, we celebrate all the dimensions of diversity, including diversity of experience. We recognize that candidates applying for this role will be most successful if they bring the following with them:
- 8 years as a professional Software Engineer; 6 years relevant Data Engineering experience
- Deep technical understanding of SQL and relational concepts
- Extensive experience optimizing SQL queries and developing indexes for performance
- Strong software development experience, including testing, preferably with Python
- Expertise working with data in the cloud: AWS, GCP preferred
- Experience developing DAG-based ETL jobs, preferably using AirFlow
- Experience working with version control systems, such as Git
- Experience with AWS Data Migration Service a plus
- Ability to thrive in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment
- Strong record of excellent communication, problem solving, and attention to detail
If you feel like you don’t meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply anyway. The confidence gap and imposter syndrome can sometimes get in the way of meeting incredible candidates and we don’t want it to get in the way of meeting you. We encourage you to reach out if you have belief in our mission and your own ability to contribute to our team!
The Fine Print
Work Environment & Physical Demands
As a remote-first company, we take great care to ensure an inclusive experience for all of our employees. You may be offered the opportunity to travel to company meetings and events, however this is not a requirement. We aim to optimize for remote attendance, not just accommodate it.
The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use the computer and communicate with coworkers in a remote office environment. The employee frequently is required to stand or sit to complete work and may occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees in this job. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.
Commitment to Equal Opportunity
The Company celebrates diversity of thought, race, national origin and culture, age, experience, religion, economic and social status, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability status. Building a culture of inclusion and belonging allows us to create and share experiences with each other, and with our virtual communities. We always seek to maintain a diverse and welcoming workplace, and candidates from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply.