Experienced Data Engineer for Data Platform Development – Remote Opportunity with Grammarly

Introduction to Grammarly

Grammarly is a renowned company that has been at the forefront of improving lives by enhancing communication. With over 10 years of consistent growth and innovation, we have established ourselves as a leader in the communication assistance category. Our products, including Grammarly Free, Grammarly Premium, Grammarly Business, and Grammarly for Education, have been trusted by millions of individuals and over 50,000 professional teams worldwide. Our latest offering, GrammarlyGO, leverages the power of generative AI to provide unparalleled assistance to our clients. At Grammarly, we pride ourselves on fostering a comprehensive, values-driven, and learning-focused environment that empowers our colleagues to take on exciting challenges and drive meaningful impact.

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering Platform team. As a Data Engineer, you will play a critical role in building highly digitized, low-latency core datasets that will enable data engineers and end-users across Grammarly to work with insightful data at scale. Your expertise will be instrumental in driving upgrades to make our analysis easy, creating and modifying core data models and capacity structures, and ensuring that our data is usable and accessible within minutes of real-time events occurring.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive upgrades to make our analysis easy by creating and modifying core data models and capacity structures, all while embracing the requirements of our clients.
• Make insightful data and metrics usable inside a couple of minutes of real-time events occurring, and construct streaming processes for the resulting inferred events and aggregate data.
• Model construction, storage, and access of data at extremely high volumes for our data lakehouse.
• Improve engineer productivity and self-serve solutions by contributing components to our stream data processing system(s).
• Own data engineering's infrastructure as-code for provisioning services that allow our experts to deliver mature software installations within a few hours.
• Build an elite process that will enable our systems to scale.
• Mentor other back-end engineers in the team and help them grow.
• Build and contribute to AWS high-scale distributed systems at the back-end.

Requirements and Qualifications

We are looking for someone who embodies our Energetic values – is ethical, adaptable, gritty, compassionate, and surprising. The ideal candidate will have:

• A Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• Experience with Python, Scala, or Java.
• Experience with designing database products and writing social queries.
• Experience designing and standing up APIs and services.
• Experience with system design and building internal tools.
• Experience handling applications that work with data from data lakes.
• At least some experience building internal Administrator sites.
• Good knowledge of and at least some experience with AWS (or has deep expertise in Azure or GCE and will learn AWS in a short period of time).
• The ability to proficiently pick an open-source or third-party tool to achieve what they need or devise a quick and simple solution on their own.

What We Offer

At Grammarly, we are committed to supporting our colleagues professionally and personally. We offer:

• Competitive compensation and benefits package, including excellent healthcare, disability and life insurance options, 401(k) and RRSP matching, and paid parental leave.
• Twenty days of paid time off each year, eleven days of paid holidays each year, and unlimited days off.
• Workspace allowances, parent and pet care stipends, health stipends, and affirmation discounts.
• Opportunities for learning and development, including training, coaching, and regular feedback.
• A remote-first hybrid model that enables a highly collaborative culture supported by our Energetic values.
• Employee resource groups, Grammarly Circles, which promote connection among those with shared identities, such as BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ colleagues, women, and parents.

Career Growth and Learning Benefits

At Grammarly, we believe that independence and trust are essential to empowering our colleagues to do their best, most innovative work in a way that aligns with their interests, talents, and well-being. We support professional growth and advancement with training, coaching, and regular feedback. Our colleagues have the autonomy to take on exciting challenges and drive meaningful impact, and we provide opportunities for learning and development to help them grow professionally and personally.

Work Environment and Company Culture

Grammarly builds an product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. Our remote-first hybrid model enables a highly collaborative culture supported by our Energetic values. We work to foster a sense of belonging among colleagues in various ways, including our employee resource groups, Grammarly Circles. We also celebrate our colleagues and achievements with global, local, and team-specific programs.

Conclusion

If you are a motivated and experienced Data Engineer looking for a challenging and rewarding role, we encourage you to apply for this opportunity. At Grammarly, we are committed to supporting our colleagues professionally and personally, and we offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, opportunities for learning and development, and a collaborative and inclusive work environment. Join our team and help us drive meaningful impact and improve lives by enhancing communication.

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