Data Engineer

What we’re looking for 

The Data Engineer will contribute to our growing Data Engineering and Operations team. We work collaboratively to develop an infrastructure that ingests data from disparate sources and routes them to various destinations, thus providing access to high quality data to users, ranging from application developers interested in specific events to data analysts keen on business intelligence to data scientists training ML models.

At AppFolio, we paddle as one. We ride and make waves together, with a relentless focus on building great products for the way our customers work and live today – and tomorrow. AppFolio is a destination organization where careers are made and accelerated. Here, innovation is a team sport.

Your impact 

• Design, build, deploy, and operate next generation data pipeline infrastructure based on Apache Kafka and its ecosystem
• Improve data architecture, quality, discoverability and access policies to enable and enforce data governance
• Collaborate with engineers, data analysts and scientists to ensure that our data infrastructure meets the SLOs of our data-intensive customers
• Develop techniques for monitoring the completeness, correctness and reliability of our data sets
• Leverage agile practices, encourage collaboration, prioritization, and urgency to develop at a rapid pace
• Research, share, and recommend new technologies and trends

Qualifications 

• You have hands-on experience with using Apache Kafka in production and have a passion for building a reliable, scalable and fault-tolerant infrastructure.
• You have hands-on experience with data warehouse technology, particularly with Snowflake.
• You have worked with a variety of data sources, including change data capture systems, event sourcing and clickstreams, in production.
• You care about work-life balance and want your company to care about it too; you'll put in the extra hour when needed but won't let it become a habit.
• You want to work with a high degree of autonomy, while at the same time working on initiatives of high importance to the company.

Must have 

• You have 3+ years of experience working with languages like Python or Ruby. 
• You have excellent SQL skills.
• You have 2+ years of experience working with Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, and monitoring tools.
• Experience with Kafka Connect, or Kafka Stream

Nice to have 

• Experience with Debezium connector is highly desirable.
• Experience with clickstream tracking technology in general, or Snowplow in particular, is desirable.
• Experience with containers and container orchestration tools.  Docker and Kubernetes experience in particular is desirable.
• Experience in visualization tools like tableau 

The base salary/hourly wage that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is: $106,000 to $160,000.

The actual base salary/hourly wage for this role will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to: the candidate’s skills, education, experience, etc. 

Please note that base pay is one important aspect of a compelling Total Rewards package. The base pay range indicated here does not include any additional benefits or bonuses/commissions that you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type.
Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits including but not limited to: 

• Paid Time Off (PTO) 
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits 
• Long-term and short-term disability insurance
• 401(k)
• Wellness benefits

Interns / full-time temporary / eligible variable hour employees are eligible for benefits including but not limited to:

• Medical
• 401(k)
• Wellness benefits

Why AppFolio

We ride and make waves together, with a relentless focus on building great products for the way our customers work and live today — and tomorrow. AppFolio is a destination organization where careers are made and accelerated. Here, innovation is a team sport.

Paddle as One.

Learn more at appfolioinc.com/careers 

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