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Introduction
We are looking for a Data Engineer to join the IBM Watson Media engineering team and help us maintain and improve the key aspects of our leading SaaS video streaming platform.
As a Data Engineer at IBM Watson Media, you will be responsible for building and operating the data pipeline of our unit. You will have the opportunity to learn and work with tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Airflow, Athena, Elasticsearch, Pinot, Kafka, Flink, Python or Tableau to get the most out of our most valuable resource, all data from different areas of our platform. With this we want to make sure we have all critical insights of our platform's usage and we give meaningful information to our customers whenever they need it.
Your Role and Responsibilities
- design, implement, maintain and operate efficient and reliable data pipelines to move data across systems
- develop and deploy changes via infrastructure as code
- support multiple teams (product, engineering, marketing, finance etc) in high visibility roles
- implement data workflow to aggregate and structure data for high-performance analytics
- monitor performance of the data platform and optimize as needed
- provide on-call duty for the supported systems
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Experience with query languages (eg. SQL, Hive etc.)
- Experience with a scripting language (eg. Python) and a statically typed programming language (eg. Java)
- Experience with relational databases
- Strong collaboration and problem-solving skills
- Working experience with container orchestration solutions (e.g. Kubernetes), Helm and infrastructure as code systems (e.g. Terraform)
- Curiosity to understand the business use of data tools
- Fluency in English
Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise
- Experience with functional programming (example: Scala)
- You have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent training, education and experience
- Experience in monitoring systems (eg. Prometheus)
- System administration and automation skills
About Business Unit
IBM Watson Media is the leading Live Video Streaming, AI and Video Hosting Solution for businesses. Our comprehensive video streaming platform is built for scale and reliability, to optimize video quality and workflow, and powered by IBM Watson AI for video search and automated closed captioning. Our products are used by thousands of enterprises, service providers, educators, and media companies worldwide from startups to Fortune 500 companies like Salesforce, Pinterest, SONY, Mazda, Herman Miller and Roland. With our help, they create large scale live streams, host video entertainment venues with pay-per-view access for subscribers, conduct video marketing activities like product launches or webinars, stream executive townhalls and trainings and create powerful virtual and hybrid events.
This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.
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