Principal Software Engineer (Data)

Position: Principal Software Engineer (Data)

 Location: Gurgaon OR Remote

**This role requires Core Work Hours from 8:30 pm to 12:30 am IST (will change as per daylight saving in US). The remaining hours are completed at individual discretion.**

Role Characteristics:

Recognized master in professional discipline with significant impact and influence on organizational policy and program development. Establishes critical strategic and operational goals; develops and implements new products, processes, standards or operational plans to achieve strategies. Regularly leads projects of critical importance to the organization; these projects carry substantial consequences of success or failure. Requires significant influence and communication with executive leadership. Problems faced are frequently complex and multidimensional, requiring broad based consideration of variables that impact multiple areas of the organization.

You will:

• Create and review system level designs and architectures to ensure consistency and quality across the business unit.
• Create, review, maintain, organize, and set documentation standards for the entire team.
• Design, Develop, and Deploy entire Analytic pipelines to surface metrics and meet business needs.
• Perform data pre-processing to clean, eliminate outliers in data and conduct data exploration to detect correlation, trends, and patterns in data.
• Translate numerical data into engaging stories using visualization techniques
• Build key business metrics, visualizations, dashboards and reports with Google Looker.
• Code solutions for current problems, prototype solutions for upcoming products, and actively look to fix potential issues across the code base before they become a fire.
• Participates in code reviews as a CODEOWNER across the org.
• Own the deployment process and investigate upgrades and improvements that can be made within the tooling.
• Actively monitor what is no longer needed and make suggestions and solutions for replacements that would provide improvements to meet business needs.
• Provide operational support for any deployments that are in need.
• Proactively prevent issues from arising.
• Lead efforts across business units, promote what your teams needs, be available for those who need help.
• Other job-related duties as assigned

You have:

• 4 year degree in Computer Science or related field
• 11+ years of experience in software engineering
• 9+ years of experience in Data Engineering or Data Science
• 7+ years of experience with Python, SQL, Bash Scripting
• 7+ years of experience in Data Technologies (ETL, Data Sanitization, Airflow)
• 7+ years of experience in AWS Technologies (S3, Redshift, Glue, DynamoDB, Athena)
• 5+ years of experience in Looker
• 7+ Years of experience working with data formats (JSON, Parquet, CSV, GZIP, files)
• Ability to troubleshoot highly complex, multi dependency issues
• Ability to communicate across all teams within and outside the organization to provide solutions
• Ability to find the problem, create the solution, and foresee future problems

Would be great if you have:

• Experience in building end to end solutions in the weather industry
• Experience in performant, available, cost effective solutions in the advertising industry
• Experience with CICD tools, specifically GitHub, Jenkins, Splunk
• Experience with AWS Products, specifically CloudFormation, Batch, Glue, MWAA, RedShift, Lambda, Step Functions, Sagemaker, Tagging
• Experience with Data Pipeline technologies like Jupyter Notebooks, Google BigQuery
• Experience working with formats like TXT, CSV, MARKDOWN, JSON, YAML, GeoJSON, GZIP, PARQ, PROTOBUF
• Experience with other languages, frameworks, and platforms, specifically Infrastructure as Code, Python, Shell, C#, .NET, NodeJS

What we offer:

At Weatherbug, we want our employees to be comfortable with their benefits so they can focus on doing the work they love.

• Parental leave- Maternity and Paternity
• Flexible Time Offs (Earned Leaves, Sick Leaves, Birthday leave, Bereavement leave & Company Holidays).
• In Office Daily Catered Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks and Beverages
• Health cover for any hospitalization. Covers both nuclear family and parents
• Covid home quarantine cover
• Tele-med for free doctor consultation, discounts on health checkups and medicines
• Wellness/Gym Reimbursement
• Pet Expense Reimbursement
• Childcare Expenses and reimbursements
• Employee assistance program
• Employee referral program
• Education reimbursement program
• Skill development program
• Cell phone reimbursement (Mobile Subsidy program)
• Internet reimbursement
• Birthday treat reimbursement
• Home office set up
• Employee Provident Fund Scheme offering different tax saving options such as VPF and employee and employer contribution up to 12% Basic
• Creche reimbursement
• Co-working space reimbursement
• NPS employer match
• Meal card for tax benefit
• Special benefits on salary account
• New joiner relocation