Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Skill connects professional, IT, engineering, financial, and administrative talent with leading brands. The Backend Engineer will build, operate, and evolve a data analytics platform, including backend services and an OLAP data store, while developing internal tooling and supporting reliability, observability, and operational excellence across engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Build, operate, and evolve a data analytics platform that includes backend services as well as an OLAP data store (Druid) for teams building analytics across the company
- Build internal tooling, libraries, and services that streamline integration patterns with our analytics platform
- Advocate for best practices in service design, data modeling, schema evolution, and contract testing to ensure long-term maintainability
- Work in an autonomous, cross-functional environment and collaborate with squads across the organization to continuously iterate and deliver on new product objectives
Skills
- 3+ years of relevant experience with distributed datastores and backend services
- Proficient in Java and excited to learn Kubernetes and Terraform
- Understanding of data modeling, dimensional schemas, and analytical query patterns
- Experience building internal developer tools, libraries, or shared services that support large engineering organizations
- Strong sense of ownership of service quality, SLOs, and operational excellence
- Familiar with OLAP databases or analytics warehouses (e.g., Druid, ClickHouse, Pinot, BigQuery, Snowflake)
- Comfort with metrics-driven development and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, or similar)
- A strong communicator and an empathetic, attentive listener with the capability to anticipate the needs of partners
- Deeply curious and passionate about exploring both technical and organizational problems and domains
- Eager to learn new technologies and expand your area of expertise
- You MUST work EST hours
- Experience with Druid is a strong plus
Benefits
- Benefits
- 401k matching
- Health benefit contributions
- Retirement plans with match
- Flexible spending accounts
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