Data Engineer
$85K-$159K (Glassdoor est.)
We are an ambitious, well-funded startup with plans to change a $1 trillion-dollar global industry. This is no ordinary startup. We have a proven management team that has done it before, done it before together, and done it before in the travel industry. The company is overflowing with fiercely intelligent people who have tons of energy and an upbeat view of the future. We all act like owners and we get a huge kick out doing great work and doing it fast. We like it even more when we come up with a fresh way to solve a problem. Above all, we are devoted to solving customer problems, because that’s at the center of everything we do.
ABOUT YOU
You are an individual contributor who works well in an agile team.
You have strong software development chops and deliver tested and scalable code in a language like Python, Golang, Java, or Scala.
You have experience with system integrations and can explore APIs, documentation, system logs, etc. to come up with solutions.
You have worked with several big/fast data platforms such as AirFlow, Snowflake, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Spark, and Hive.
You have advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
You feel at home working in the AWS ecosystem.
You have strong analytical skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
You appreciate that engineering is all about tradeoffs and realize there is a time and place for streaming, batch, and offline.
ABOUT THE GIG
Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture.
Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
Write and maintain code to move and transform data both within our application as well as in/out of our partners’ systems.
Work with Data Science to ensure efficient and timely access to data for experimentation, model training, and machine learning applications.
Deliver solutions that are testable, observable and scalable.
Automation is central to our ecosystem and all solutions will have a CI/CD delivery methodology.
Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
Keep our data separated and secure across national boundaries through multiple data centers and AWS regions.
Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building data products and services.
Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights across key business performance metrics. (DataDog Dashboards, Looker).
ABOUT ENGINEERING AT UPSIDE
We love to ship. We’re completely on the CI/CD train, shipping code multiple times a day. We’ve developed a clustered container environment in AWS using Docker and Kubernetes to manage dozens of microservices written primarily in Node and Go. Our web frontend is written in React/Redux and we’re building native iOS and Android apps that take full advantage of the powerful platforms they run on. **

ABOUT US
We are positive, passionate, playful, and always pushing to be better. Our team is a hodgepodge of challenge seekers, travel gurus, startup junkies, and data-miners who see the big picture.

YOU WANT TO TALK TO US IF…
You are motivated by disrupting the norm.
You have a great sense of humor and take your profession seriously, but not yourself.
Your entrepreneurial spirit drives your bias for action.
You are all about constructive feedback - you can dish it out and you can take it.
You thrive in the frenetic energy of a startup.

WHAT WE OFFER
Competitive salary + equity
Full health, vision, and dental coverage
401K plan
Open paid time off
Impromptu Nerf gun battles
Upside Travel is an equal opportunity employer and encourages people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply. We are committed to being an inclusive place to work, while maintaining a workforce that represents the communities we serve.
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