Platform engineers strike a balance between precision and disruption, between reliability and innovation. Nielsen is a tech company backed by over a century of forward momentum to show the world what’s next—and we couldn’t do it without our platform engineers.
Nielsen Media is the market leader in content ratings across virtually all entertainment platforms including local and national TV, streaming, digital advertising, and more. In the role of Data Engineer on the Identity Team, you'll be responsible for developing the systems that estimate the audience consuming the content. This effort deals with massive data sets, demanding keen focus on both performance and design.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Use your knowledge of open source, cloud, and data technologies to architect better identity data products for our internal customers.
- Perform architectural reviews for critical business products to ensure they are properly built for reliability, scalability, and cost optimization.
- Design and implement large-scale data pipelines.
- Review and refine the fundamental Data Engineering and SRE practices.
- Mentor other platform team members to increase their technical and soft skills.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 6+ years of experience in Data Engineering, DBA or Database Developer role leading critical projects of high complexity.
- Capable of proposing/evaluating data system architectures for high-scale projects.
- In-depth knowledge and experience implementing core big data concepts and tools spanning source control, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring, alerting, logging.
- Deep knowledge of Apache Spark is a must.
- Proficiency in AWS, with strong knowledge of S3, KMS and IAM.
- Experience with Kubernetes is a plus.
