Senior Data Scientist- Data Corpus

SoundCloud is a next-generation music entertainment company powered by an ecosystem of artists, fans, and thriving communities. As one of the world’s most influential cultural platforms, SoundCloud holds a singular market position as both a music-streaming service with the largest catalogue of music, and an artist services and distribution business to help artists grow long-term, successful careers.

 

We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer (Level 3) to join the Data Foundations department, in our Data Corpus team. You will help us continue building our unified and standardized data warehouse called Corpus that is used across SoundCloud for reporting, data science and analytics, building data products or simply answering questions. You can read more about Data Corpus in our blog post.

About the role:

The Data Corpus team is responsible for building and maintaining SoundCloud’s petabyte-scale GCP data warehouse. You will build and maintain the warehouse to abstract the complexity of SoundCloud’s vast data eco-system to exploit and get value from data. You will work closely with business reporting, data science, and product teams. You will gather and refine requirements, design data architecture and solutions, and build ETL pipelines using Airflow to land data in BigQuery and beyond. You will have knowledge and passion for analytics engineering. You are a strong individual contributor who thrives in a dynamic environment and is motivated by solving challenging data problems.

About you:

As a Senior individual contributor, you will be able to manage stakeholders, plan and lead technical projects, and identify and focus the business value of projects. 

Must have:

• Senior Level Data Professional

• +6 years experience ideal, +4 years minimum experience.

• Experience working with Cloud technologies

• GCP (required)

• AWS/Azure also nice to have

• Experience working with BigQuery

• Advanced SQL knowledge

• Python experience

• Airflow experience

• Experience working with big data (terabyte/petabyte scale)

• Experience in Data Architecture/solution design

• Experience working in Agile methodology, ideally working with Jira.

• Experience in data warehousing and analytical data modeling.

• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and code repositories (Git preferred)

• Experiencing in building complex and high reliability ETL pipelines

• Knowledge of basic statistical concepts and methods

• Experience producing high-quality technical documentation

• Excellent English-speaking communicator and demonstrator

• Experience in basic QA engineering and testing methodologies

Nice to have:

• Experience with experimentation (A/B testing) tools and processes

• Experience working with subscription-based businesses

• Experience with ML Models and Data Science

• Experience integrating third-party tools and systems

• Data visualization skills

Title:

Senior Data Scientist- Data Corpus

Location:

EU Berlin

About us:

• We are a multinational company with offices in the US (New York and Los Angeles), Germany (Berlin), and the UK (London)

• We provide a flexible work culture that offers the opportunity to collaborate and connect in person at our offices as well as accommodating work from home

• We are deeply committed to ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels of our organization and fostering a community where everyone’s voice, perspective and experience is respected and heard

• We believe a strong team is made by investing in employees through mentorship, workshops and enrichment opportunities

• You can contribute to our Engineering Blog

Benefits:

• Not located in Berlin? No worries, we offer extensive relocation support including allowances, one-way flights, temporary accommodation, and by partnering with Expath, on the ground support on arrival

• Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit!

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan

• Professional development allowance

• Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually

• We offer free German courses at beginning, intermediate and advanced

• Various snacks, goodies and 2 free lunches weekly at the office!

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