Location: all cities,AK, USA
Foursquare is the leading independent location technology and data cloud platform, dedicated to building meaningful bridges between digital spaces and physical places. Our proprietary technology unlocks the most accurate, trustworthy location data in the world, empowering businesses to answer key questions, uncover hidden insights, improve customer experiences, and achieve better business outcomes. A pioneer of the geo-location space, Foursquare's location tech stack is being utilized by our mobile apps CityGuide and Swarm, as well as the world's largest enterprises and most recognizable brands, like Amazon, Microsoft, Samsung, Spotify, Uber, Airbnb and others. Foursquare's flexible building blocks include technology to maximize marketing impact and drive incremental real-world engagement (Attribution, Audience, Proximity, SDK); data to deeply understand points of interest and real-world behavior patterns (Places and Visits), and tools to conduct advanced analysis, data enrichment, unification and visualization (Studio). About the Position Foursquare is looking for a highly skilled Senior Data engineer to join our team While we would prefer candidates based in or around our office hub in Seattle or New York. Data Engineers at Foursquare have a unique opportunity to combine large scale 1st and 3rd party geospatial datasets with other data (transactions, ad impressions and more) to derive actionable business insights. We do so by combining unique datasets with a series of proprietary algorithms and/or models while leveraging numerous compute platforms (both hyperscalers and emerging geospatial compute platforms). In this role, you'll • Work closely with data scientists to productionize ML models. • Design, implement & maintain data pipelines that process billions of impressions, visits and transactions per day. • Build new features by working directly with customer facing teams. • Work effectively with a high degree of autonomy within a collaborative team. What you'll need • 8 years of experience in building large scale data pipelines using Spark. • Hands-on experience with orchestration technologies such as Airflow. • Working knowledge of open table formats such as Delta, Iceberg or Hudi. • Experience working with data warehousing solutions such as Snowflake or Redshift. • Proficient in SQL. • Experience designing and deploying high performance systems with reliable monitoring and logging practices. • Experience in optimizing and troubleshooting complex data pipelines. • Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Benefits and Perks • Flexible PTO - rest and recharge when you need it • Industry Leading Healthcare - comprehensive and competitive health, vision, dental, life insurance • Savings and Investments - 401(k) with company match • Equipment Setup - you will receive all necessary hardware for your job function • Family Planning and Fertility Programs - programs via Carrot • Employee Resource Groups - to help you stay connected • Hybrid Work Schedule for in-person collaboration on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays beginning April 1, 2024. For roles considered remote, this will not apply.