Who are we?
Buyers Edge Platform stands at the forefront of revolutionizing the foodservice industry through technology, purchasing power and partnerships. We are dedicated to empowering stakeholders across the entire foodservice ecosystem (operators, distributors, manufacturers) with efficiency and unprecedented visibility. With a diverse portfolio of over a dozen brands, our mission is clear: to reduce costs, streamline the foodservice supply chain, and propel the industry from manual to automated.
Today, we are one of the largest players in foodservice, with over 200K operator locations across North America and over $50 billion of aggregated spend volume. Our commitment to foodservice excellence is proven in four distinct areas of value: Digital Procurement Network, Fresh Solutions, Supply Chain Management, and Software. Buyers Edge Platform is not just a provider – we are a strategic partner on the journey towards a more efficient, connected, and automated future for the foodservice industry.
This position is remotely based. We are unable to offer work sponsorship for this role.
The data engineering mission within BEP is to make our data quickly and easily accessible with highly performant, scalable, secure and cost-effective solutions. As a data and analytics company, it's important to ensure our clients and analysts can quickly get the information they need to make informed business decisions. Data Engineering allows developers to focus on creating product and features while experienced data engineers focus on the data required for those features.
Your impact:
- Maximizing the business value of the company's data by supporting and improving our existing data infrastructure
- Creating and enhancing ETL process within the AWS Data Ecosystem
- Create robust and re-deployable resources by collaborating with DevOps
- Improve the company's products by assisting with data performance improvements
- Create a "customer-first" environment by responding in a timely manner to service issues and requests
- Advance the company's data engineering capability by resting and proposing new technology to solve business problems
- Ensure the usefulness and adoption of our data assets by creating documentation that describes the data assets and ETL pipelines
- Ensure effective operations of the technology platform with occasional after-hours work
About you:
- Expert with AWS data platforms and integrations, including Data Lakes, parallel processing frameworks such as pyspark, and other AWS services such as S3, Glue, and Athena
- Understanding of at least one scripting language such as Python, Golang, NodeJS or TypeScript
- Basic understanding of an orchestrator tool such as Terraform or Cloud Formation.
- Git version control
- Experience with monitoring tools, APM, Logging and Infrastructure.
- Solid understanding of RDMS schema and performance. MySQL, Amazon Aurora, and Postgres. MSSQL is a plus
- Familiar with data warehousing technologies like Redshift and Snowflake
- High level understanding of data storage systems including NoSQL, Time Series, Document and RDMS.
- High level understanding of messaging queue and data streaming technology
- Thorough understanding of Apache Hudi or Iceberg
- Both written and oral effective communication skills
What's in this for you?
Amazing coverages to start. Medical, dental, and vision coverages are just the beginning! We also offer ancillary plans, such as flexible spending accounts for both health and dependent care, critical illness, accident, and voluntary life as well as company paid life and long-term-disability plans! On top of this, we also offer a 401(k) plan with company match.
Invest in your success. We will provide you with a thorough training and development program; and offer competitive compensation.
Live well = Work well. Relax with our Personal Responsibility Paid Time Off policy where you don’t have to accrue time off in order to take it! We also offer half-day Summer Fridays!
We welcome all.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and pregnancy-related conditions), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.
