Director of Data Engineering job at AddThis

Job Description

You will lead the team that designs and architects the systems that runs on thousands of machines. You will build systems that support tens of thousands of concurrent requests as well building systems that can perform complex distributed queries against huge data sets. Data is at the heart of what we do at AddThis and your work will be a critical factor in our success.

Responsibilities:

Grow and lead a team of elite engineers
Deliver production data services for internal and external applications
Work with Operations to design and build scalable cost efficient computer systems
Provide tools, training, and resources that enable AddThis engineers to leverage our data
Build and maintain high-performance distributed systems
Design and implement highly scalable API's and services that receive billions of requests per day
Be fanatical about performance and performance monitoring
Use efficient data structures and algorithms to enable data processing at scale
Code primarily in Java but also able to use the right language for the right job

Requirements:

Demonstrated ability to lead teams and deliver quality results
Extensive experience with distributed computing, performance analysis, network protocols, data storage subsystems, and Linux
Strong computer science fundamentals including a deep understanding of data structures and distributed algorithms
Able to create elegant, efficient, and testable code
Expert Java programmer with a deep understanding of the JVM, the Java memory model, and asynchronous I/O.
BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Desired:

5+ years of experience leading and managing engineering teams
Experience processing very large data sets
Experience working with advertising systems
Ability to understand and implement machine learning algorithms
Experience with Cassandra, Hadoop, Riak, MongoDB, or similar technologies
Familiar with common POSIX and Linux specific system calls
Understanding of Linux Kernel development
Experience developing high performance software that operates on SSDs

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