Staff SRE Engineer

About the position

The Staff SRE Engineer role at VIZIO involves managing and optimizing data extraction, transformation, and loading processes in a high-scale environment. The position requires designing and implementing data models while ensuring data privacy, security, and compliance. The engineer will work with large datasets and collaborate with various teams to resolve data-related issues and improve operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Independently design, build and launch new data extraction, transformation and loading processes in production.
• Identify the data needed for a business problem and implement logging required to ensure availability of data.
• Build data expertise and leverage data controls to ensure privacy, security, compliance, data quality, and operations for allocated areas of ownership.
• Design, build and launch new data models.
• Support existing processes running in production and implement optimized solutions with limited guidance.
• Work with terabyte to petabyte scale data.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.
• Previous experience as a data engineer or in a similar role.
• Technical expertise with data models, data mining, and segmentation techniques.
• Good experience in Python, Scala, SQL, and AWS.
• Experience with Big Data platforms such as Databricks, EMR, and Hadoop.
• Experience with Map-Reduce and/or Spark computing frameworks (Pyspark).
• Experience in working with different Cloud environments (AWS preferred).
• Hands-on experience with SQL database design and ETL tools/scripts.
• Great numerical and analytical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Degree in Computer Science, IT, or similar field; a Master's is a plus.

Benefits

• Annual bonus eligibility
• Equity options
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance