Los Angeles Times | various Data Roles | Los Angeles, CA and San Diego, CA | Full Time | <a href="
The LA Times is a tech-first data driven newsroom.
We're hiring Sr. Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Analysts and other roles. Even if your experience doesn't exactly fall into this realm, if you're passionate about the mission of supporting journalism, please reach out to me directly with your resume and let's talk! stan (at) latimes (dot) com.
These roles will be responsible for help setting our engineering culture as well as driving the architecture and products we build out inside our larger data organization in partnership with data science, analytics, and consumer research.
Fundamentals (for the data engineer position):
- 5+ years experience as a developer
- 2+ years as a senior developer
- 1+ years with Docker and microservices
- Production experience with Marathon, Kubernetes or similar container orchestration solutions
- Strong engineering fundamentals
- Proficient in SQL
- Expert in Python, Java, Scala or similar language
- Proven ability to build scalable API services with high uptime availability
- Production experience with AWS tools including at least some of the following: EC2, S3, Kinesis, CloudFormation or similar tools in GCP
- Production experience with some of the following: (Cassandra, Kafka, or similar)
Nice to Haves:
- Production experience with some of the following (Cassandra, Kafka)
- Experience building serverless applications
- Experience with at least one data warehousing platform (Redshift, Athena, Hive, Snowflake, etc.)
- Experience in at least one of: digital subscriptions businesses, digital ad-tech, digital media
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