Data Systems Engineer

Veterans Sourcing Group

Menlo Park, CA

JOB DETAILS
LOCATION
Menlo Park, CA
POSTED
30+ days ago
Data Systems Engineer - ELK/Kafka/Linux
Alpharetta, GA or Menlo Park, CA - Hybrid 3 Days a Week Onsite
12 months+


Interview Process:
  1. Screening of Technical Background - check Linux exp (Team member - 1hr)
  2. Technical Panel (in person)
Bachelor's Degree: Not a hard requirement but a BIG PLUS
Industry Background: Plus
Years of experience: 7-15 years Exp

Must:
  • Need to have strong working knowledge on Linux platform
  • Application Development Exp - Python (#1) - Ruby or Shell (#2)
    • Need to be able to run the application within Linux - debug - understand when they run the application there is a memory cpu, etc
  • ELK (Elastic Search) Exp
  • Kafka building pipeline with ELK and Kafka
  • Strong communication, Team Player and someone who is open to learning and getting their hands dirty.
  • Ability to learn - Curiosity
Plus:
  • Fling
  • Snowflake Database Exp
  • Spark Data processing
  • Good Data Analysis Background
  • ELK Certification
    • Observability and Data Analysis
D2D:
  • This person will not only be doing the pipeline development but will work in large scale cluster setting.
    • Will requires the understanding of scalability in the Kafka environment
    • This person will ensure the jobs are up and running, debug it and support the 100s of customers who use their system
      • Be the person to support those people
    • Pipeline development using Kafka, ELK and Hycon
    • Will need a strong knowledge of linux because that's where they deploy their jobs in the 100s
    • Pipeline is within Kafka and almost all the data is writing within ELK (need to understand how the data is stored)
  • This is a diverse background!
Misc:
  • If the candidate is a data engineer, they also need to be a dataengineer/application developer
    • They need core applications development. Not only know shell/python development.
  • Team works directly within a Linux platform (very important)
  • Will do Development, Deployment and Support
Struggles while reviewing resumes:
  • Sees a lot of cookie cutter resumes that match that JD to a "T".

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