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• JOB TYPE: Freelance, Contract Position (no agencies/C2C - see notes below)
• LOCATION: Remote - United States only (TimeZone: EST | Partial overlap)
• HOURLY RANGE: Our client is looking to pay $110 – $127/hr
• ESTIMATED DURATION: 40h/week - Long term

ABOUT THE HIRING PROCESS:

When you join Braintrust, you will be invited to a screening process for Braintrust to learn more about your previous work experiences. Once completed, you will have access to the employer for this role and other top companies that seek high-quality talent. Apply to this job to kick off the process.

THE OPPORTUNITY

QUALIFICATIONS

Qualities that will help you thrive in this role are:

• You understand that being an effective software engineer is about communicating with people as much as it is about writing code.
• You are willing to work with and improve code you did not originally write.
• You are generous with your time and experience, and can mentor and learn from other engineers.
• You can tackle unconstrained problems and know when to seek help.
• You have strong domain expertise and backend skills (working in Scala, Java and Python)
• You have experience with the following:
  • Advantages and limitations of distributed systems
  • DevOps
  • Writing ETL pipelines
  • Building and monitoring cloud services (GCP services preferred) and infrastructure
  • Using or maintaining data processing environments like Hadoop, Spark, PySpark, and Dataflow.
  • Preference in candidates that have experience working with Airflow
• You will be considered a staff engineer / tech lead with strong leadership and communication skills
• You will have experience collaborating with other engineers and product teams.

What you’ll be working on

What’s the role?

As a member of our client's Data Infrastructure team, you’ll help us build and maintain tools and infrastructure to write, test, and schedule batch data pipelines. Your work will enable other developers, data scientists, and analysts to write the high-performing pipelines that power data science, machine learning, and product development.

They primarily write in Scala, Java, and Python and use technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Airflow, Terraform, and Kubernetes, as well as GCP services like Dataproc, Dataflow, and BigQuery. Their team is headquartered in Brooklyn but has a remote-first culture and they encourage remote applicants; no preference in time zone.

What’s this team like?

• They build highly-performant systems that are maintainable and easy to understand by selecting and integrating with the best of current technologies.
• They develop robust, highly available, well-monitored data infrastructure.
• They stay in close communication with their internal customers and make strategic improvements to ensure those that depend on us have a great experience using data

What does the day-to-day look like?

• You should have experience building data processing platforms, supporting them at scale, and collaborating with other teams that depend on them.
• Experience building applications and managing infrastructure using one of the major cloud providers is preferred but not required.
• They value curiosity, passion, responsibility, and generosity of spirit.

Apply Now!

Braintrust Job ID: 6246

C2C Candidates: This role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. If you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC/corp around their consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.

Braintrust values the multitude of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.