Data Engineer III
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Senior Data Engineer building high-volume data pipelines for Ookla, a global connectivity intelligence company. Supporting data scientists with Spark, Python, SQL, and modern lakehouse technologies.
Responsibilities:
- Develop high-volume data processing jobs across Redshift, Athena, Iceberg, Spark, and Airflow
- Work closely with Data Scientists to turn theory and methodology into viable products
- Identify system performance bottlenecks and recommend process-efficiency improvements
- Support and collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and product managers
- Mentor and guide junior team members on architectural principles, best practices, and effective ways of working
- Build tools, libraries, and operations supporting data scientists and analysts working with mobile and fixed internet performance data
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
- Strong understanding of programming concepts
- Experience in at least one object-oriented programming language: Python, Scala, or Java
- 6+ years of direct experience working with Python
- Experience with high-volume distributed data processing in Spark
- Strong working knowledge of SQL, MySQL, Redshift, Athena, Trino, data modeling, and modern data warehouse/lakehouse management
- Excellent troubleshooting and analysis skills
- Strong communication skills in person and via virtual mediums
- Strong time management skills and self-driven work ethic
- Background check required
- Experience with AWS cloud services is a plus
- Experience with event-driven architecture and streaming data pipelines is a plus
Benefits:
- Flexible work environment
- Individuality, fun, and talent valued equally


















