Founding Data Engineer
Buenos Aires
RYZ Labs – Engineering /
Full Time - Contract /
Remote
Remote position. (Latam Candidates Only)
RYZ is looking for a Data Engineer to work with one of our partners and and help them unlock the full potential of their most critical asset: data. You will have direct impact on revenue and delivering value to customers by ensuring that their systems can handle the complex relationship between our entities.
We are looking for someone who is constantly looking for ways to increase the effectiveness of the team through the use of technology, and who shares our values of being low ego, obsessed, curious, and collaborative. If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!
What you will do:
- You'll define the processes and ETL infrastructure to transform and make data readily available across the product
- You’ll help in executing the roadmap for data infrastructure and systems to power high volume product features using Aura’s data.
- Design and implement robust data pipelines, guaranteeing data quality and timely data delivery across our product.
- You'll determine the best ways to handle Aura’s unique data model and usage patterns to derive insights and bring intelligence to product features like search.
- You'll partner with data scientists and other internal stakeholders to understand their needs and then design, build and monitor pipelines that meet today's requirements but can gracefully scale with our growing data size
- You'll implement automated workflows that lower manual/operational cost for stakeholders, define and uphold SLAs for timely delivery of data, move the company closer to democratizing data and a self-serve model (query exploration, dashboards, data catalog, data discovery).
Qualifications:
- Track record of building highly performant, highly observable, and highly scalable systems.
- 5+ years of experience building data intensive applications
- Experience building systems with good abstractions and scalable architecture
- Solid architectural vision: You have strong intuition around long-term system design and continuous improvements to performance and scaling
- Proven expertise in cloud computing, particularly AWS
- Skilled in containerization and orchestration technologies, like Docker and Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
- Experience with Snowflake,
- Knowledge of orchestration tools, preferably Airflow
- Building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines
- Utilization of cloud monitoring and administration tools
- Understanding of data warehouse maintenance* including data wrangling, model integration, anomaly detection, and comprehensive documentation.
- Awareness of CI/CD practices
- Be passionate about analytics use cases, data models, and solving complex data problems.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 2+ years of experience in an early-stage startup.
- Proven track record migrating systems in a changing environment that allows for little to no downtime to meet increasing demand.
- Obsessed about your craft and share your knowledge (tech talks, articles, open source, etc).
- Experience in working in Python/strongly typed languages.
About RYZ Labs:
RYZ Labs is a startup studio built in 2021 by two lifelong entrepreneurs. The founders of RYZ have worked at some of the world's largest tech companies and some of the most iconic consumer brands. They have lived and worked in Argentina for many years and have decades of experience in Latam. What brought them together is the passion for the early phases of company creation and the idea of attracting the brightest talents in order to build industry-defining companies in a post-pandemic world.
Our teams are remote and distributed throughout the US and Latam. They use the latest cutting edge technologies in cloud computing to create applications that are scalable and resilient. We aim to provide diverse product solutions for different industries, planning to build a large number of startups in the upcoming years.
At RYZ, you will find yourself working with autonomy and efficiency, owning every step of your development. We provide an environment of opportunities, learning, growth, expansion and challenging projects. You will deepen your experience while sharing and learning from a team of great professionals and specialists.
Our values and what to expect:
- Customer First Mentality - every decision we make should be made through the lens of the customer.
- Bias for Action - urgency is critical, expect that the timeline to get something done is accelerated.
- Ownership - step up if you see an opportunity to help, even if not your core responsibility. Humility and Respect - be willing to learn, be vulnerable, and treat everyone that interacts with RYZ with respect.
- Frugality - being frugal and cost conscious helps us do more with less.
- Deliver Impact - get things done in the most efficient way.
- Raise our Standards - always be looking to improve our processes, our team, our expectations. Status quo is not good enough and never should be.
