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Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure (4+ years of experience)
Engineering
on site: New York City
Salary range $120,000 - $200,000
added Fri Aug 25, 2023
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** Please note that all of our roles will require you to be in-person at our NYC HQ (located in Soho) **

Responsibilities:

  • Design, implement, and maintain highly scalable data management systems.

  • Assist in building and optimizing machine learning model data pipelines.

  • You evaluate and debug your work, striving for high quality.

  • Work with the broader product team to understand requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the right solutions.

  • Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

  • Minimum of 4 years of experience in a data engineer role, with a proven track record in a technically challenging environment.

  • Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases.

  • Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools (ex Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.)

  • Experience with stream-processing systems and big data tooling

  • Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.

  • Proficiency in relevant programming languages.

  • Strong project management and organizational skills.

  • Exposure to machine learning model pipelines is a huge plus.

  • Ability to work in a fast-paced and agile development environment.

  • Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans

  • Anything you need to do your best work

  • We’ve done team off-sites to places like Paris, London, Park City, Los Angeles, and Nashville with more planned in the future.

Captions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

$120K – $200K • Offers Equity

Captions is the AI-powered creative studio. Millions of creators around the world have used Captions to make their video content stand out from the pack and we're on a mission to empower the next billion.

Based in NYC, we are a team of ambitious, experienced, and devoted engineers, designers, and marketers. You'll be joining an early team where you'll have an outsized impact on both the product and company's culture.

We’re very fortunate to have some the best investors and entrepreneurs backing us, including Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Uncommon Projects, Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger, Antoine Martin, Julie Zhuo, Ben Rubin, Jaren Glover, SVAngel, 20VC, Ludlow Ventures, Chapter One, Lenny Rachitsky, and more.

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