Real-Time Data Engineering Director

6 days ago


San Francisco, California, United States Unreal Gigs Full time

As a key member of the Unreal Gigs team, you will play a crucial role in driving the development and implementation of our real-time data engineering strategy.

About Us

Welcome to Unreal Gigs, a leading innovator at the forefront of data-driven solutions. Our company is committed to harnessing the power of real-time data to drive transformative change and solve complex problems across industries.

Job Overview

The Real-Time Data Engineer will lead initiatives in designing, building, and optimizing scalable, reliable, and efficient systems for ingesting, processing, and analyzing real-time data streams.

Key Responsibilities:
  1. Technical Leadership: Provide strategic guidance, mentorship, and technical leadership to a team of real-time data engineers, fostering a culture of excellence, innovation, and collaboration.
  2. Real-Time Data Architecture: Lead the design and implementation of architecture for real-time data processing and analytics, encompassing data ingestion, processing, and serving layers.
  3. Streaming Data Pipelines: Architect and develop robust real-time data streaming pipelines using technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, or Apache Spark Streaming, ensuring low-latency and high-throughput processing.
  4. Event-Driven Architecture: Design event-driven systems to enable real-time processing of data events and triggers, supporting use cases such as real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, and alerting.
  5. Data Integration: Lead efforts to integrate real-time data streams from diverse sources and systems into the real-time data infrastructure, ensuring data consistency, integrity, and quality.
  6. Real-Time Analytics: Develop real-time analytics systems and dashboards to enable timely insights and decision-making, leveraging technologies such as Apache Druid, Elasticsearch, or Grafana.
  7. Data Governance: Implement data governance policies and procedures to ensure data quality, security, and compliance with regulatory requirements in real-time data environments.
  8. Performance Optimization: Optimize real-time data pipelines and processing workflows for performance, scalability, and efficiency, leveraging distributed computing and streaming processing techniques.
  9. Monitoring and Alerting: Implement robust monitoring and alerting solutions to track the performance and health of real-time data infrastructure and pipelines, proactively identifying and resolving issues.
  10. Documentation and Best Practices: Define and promote best practices for real-time data engineering, ensuring clear and comprehensive documentation to facilitate understanding and collaboration among team members.
  11. Collaboration: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, software engineers, and business analysts, to understand requirements and deliver real-time data solutions that meet business needs.
  12. Mentorship and Development: Mentor and coach junior engineers, providing guidance, support, and opportunities for skill development and career growth, and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the team.

We offer a competitive salary range of $250,000-$350,000 per year, depending on experience and qualifications. Additional benefits include a comprehensive benefits package, flexible work arrangements, generous vacation and paid time off, professional development opportunities, state-of-the-art technology environment, and a vibrant and inclusive company culture with opportunities for growth and advancement.



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