Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform, Fitbit

Company: Google Inc.
Location: Cambridge
Posted on: June 10, 2021

Job Description:

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of software development experience, or 5 with an advanced degree.
• Experience with software development using Java or Scala, as well as big data and distributed systems.
• Experience with one or more of the following technologies: Spark, Kafka, Hive, Parquet, MySQL, Cassandra, BigQuery, BigTable.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with Cloud IaaS, such as Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with DevOps.
• Experience with Python.
• Experience with meeting compliance requirements for Safe Harbor, HIPAA, HiTRUST, etc.
• Experience with Airflow, Luigi, or other orchestration tools

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

The Data Platform team is responsible for making the vast amounts of data at Fitbit accessible to teams across the organization. You will be responsible for the compute layer on top of the data which enables clients of the platform to build features and perform analysis.

Security and privacy are top concerns, so our team invests in building scalable data governance tools. You will work with internal clients like product managers, data scientists, and other software engineers to understand their data needs and build scalable solutions. You will leverage a lot of open source technology like Spark, Beam, Kafka, and more.

Fitbit's diverse line of innovative products of smartwatches, trackers and smart scale help people lead healthier, more active lives by empowering them with data, inspiration and guidance to reach their health and fitness goals. Our products deliver personalized experiences, insights and guidance through leading software and interactive tools to support our users' health and wellness. Partnering with Google will expand our resources and global platform, and we will be able to accelerate innovation in the wearables category to scale faster, and make health even more accessible to everyone.

Responsibilities

• Architect the data platform which supports all of our analytics, data science, and data applications.
• Write high-performance software that's responsible for moving data between our various data storage tiers.
• Consult with the data providers and data consumers to ensure their needs are met.
• Share your experiences to internal teams as well as the outside world through blog posts, presentations, and open source contributions.
• Mentor the team and level up those around you.

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