Software Engineer, Data
Seattle, WA

Job Description

About Foursquare:

Since our inception in 2009, Foursquare has been a leading force in changing how location information enriches our real-world and digital lives. As a location intelligence company, Foursquare is comprised of two well-known consumer apps, Foursquare and Swarm, as well as thriving media and enterprise products. Our B2B offerings include Places (for developers), Pinpoint and Attribution (for marketers), and Place Insights (for analysts, based on the world's largest foot traffic panel). With more than 200 people across our offices in New York, San Francisco, and in sales offices around the globe, we're dedicated to our trailblazing mission-enriching consumer experiences and informing business decisions with location intelligence.

About our Engineering Team:

As a member of Foursquare's engineering team, we want you to bring experience building real products from the ground up. We're passionate about tackling tough challenges in the location space and look for others who like to dive deep into code and help solve hard problems. You should be comfortable running with your own ideas and eager to learn new skills on a bleeding edge platform. We use a variety of tools, technologies, and languages to build software (Scala, Thrift, MongoDB, Memcached, JS/jQuery, Kafka, Pants, Hadoop, MR, Spark) but experience with equivalent ones will do just fine.

As a data engineer, you will own critical pieces of the machine learning and analytics platforms. You will build data processing infrastructure to derive insights from billions of location data points every day. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Data Science teams to create tools and processes to bring research and machine learning models to production.

What you'll do:

* Architect and implement scalable data processing and analytics infrastructure
* Work with the Data Science team to bring machine learning models into production
* Build Hadoop MapReduce and Spark processing pipelines using Java, Python, and Ruby
* Build REST APIs for data access by systems across our infrastructure
* Focus on performance, throughput, and latency, and drive these throughout our architecture
* Write test automation, conduct code reviews, and take end-to-end ownership of deployments to production

What we're looking for:

* BS/BA in a technical field such as computer science or equivalent experience
* 3+ years of software development experience
* Proficiency in Python, Java, C#, and/or Ruby
* Excellent communication skills, including the ability to identify and communicate data-driven insights
* Experience with Hadoop MapReduce, Apache Spark, analytics systems (e.g. OLAP, BI tools), and semi-structured data (e.g. NoSQL, MongoDB, etc.) is preferred
* Experience with AWS is preferred

Foursquare is proud to foster an inclusive environment that is free from discrimination. We strongly believe in order to build the best products, we need a diversity of perspectives and backgrounds. This leads to a more delightful experience for our users and team members. We value listening to every voice and we encourage everyone to come be a part of building a company and products we love.

Foursquare is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.