Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform The Viacom Data Platform is looking for an awesome Sr. Software Engineer with professional, hands-on experience in developing and maintaining applications and services primarily written in Python. The Data Platform is responsible for ensuring the right people have the right data at the right level of granularity across Viacom brands such as Nickelodeon, MTV, BET, and Comedy Central. We enable teams driving video, marketing, and advertising to be data driven and we are implementing practical approaches with machine learning to enhance the work people do here. We take an internal open source approach to our work and believe our code needs to be top quality in order to succeed. Be a part of this growing, critical team in a challenging but fun working environment. Responsibilities: Extending and customizing open source data catalog solutions to meet our needs Help drive our API connector framework architecture and engineering efforts Collaborating across the team to shape the Data Platform technology stack Creating technical documentation Improving automation and test coverage (unit/integration/user acceptance tests, etc.) Advising across teams on "Pythonic" Python development Keeping up to date with modern software engineering technologies Your profile: 7+ years of software engineering experience with 4+ years in Python development plus a Master's degree in Computer Science (or related field) or equivalent professional experience combined with a Bachelor's degree Extensive experience with Python and experience with either Java or Scala Experience with Python frameworks such as Flask, Django, and/or Pylons Good working knowledge of Node.JS and JQuery Understanding of big data technologies such as Apache Spark, Apache Kafka Experience with build and dependency management tools (Gradle, sbt, Maven, npm) Ability to build cloud native apps on Amazon Web Services Good experience with agile development processes like Scrum and Kanban Insist on automating everything (e.g. tests, Continuous Integration, monitoring, alerting) Experience in working with Unix/Linux environment Nice to have: Experience with one or more NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Neo4J, or RDF triple stores Experience with data pipeline tools such as Apache Airflow, Luigi, AWS Data Pipeline Familiarity with tools like CKAN and Apache Atlas Candidates requiring visa sponsorship WILL NOT be considered at this time. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. ClifyX