Senior Data Platforms Developer – Sensor Tower | Built In San Francisco

Data platform developers at Sensor Tower apply their creativity and backend experience to create meaningful, actionable data products and insights about mobile apps.

This role focuses on designing, implementing, and optimizing performant and scalable solutions to manage our high volume data pipelines. As our unique dataset is central to the Sensor Tower product, this is a high impact role. Data platform developers at Sensor Tower serve as force multipliers for all of our engineering teams by ensuring easy access to data for all, scaling our system to enable the development of more sophisticated features, and implementing widely used tooling.

Recent examples of such impactful projects include:

– ~10x scaling of data science processing jobs, enabling us to generate more granular mobile app analytics breakdowns

– Migrating high volume data from MongoDB to ClickHouse for blazing fast, simpler, more generalizable querying

– Designing an ETL pipeline to provide easy-to-ingest data (for both customers and internal analysts) backed in Snowflake

– Managing actionable events and notifications driven by newly ingested data

We are a fully distributed, remote first company and at this time are only able to hire folks who reside in the following states: California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York, Texas, and Washington.

Read more about some of our technical challenges here (written by members of our engineering team):

https://sensortower.com/blog/speeding-up-the-backend-with-graph-theory

https://sensortower.com/blog/how-we-scaled-to-thousands-of-sidekiq-workers

What You Will Do

• Scale our system to simply and efficiently process higher volumes of more granular data
• Accelerate the development of other engineers by providing easy access to data and internal developer tooling
• Develop and optimize high performance data aggregation and analysis pipelines at scale
• Fully own your work through the development lifecycle of our core platform, including design, implementation, quality, release, and monitoring

Experience We Want To See

• You’re an experienced software developer who enjoys working on issues of scaling and optimization. You have a deep understanding of developing systems to efficiently handle and process large amounts of data.
• You enjoy working on complex, data driven projects and have worked with MongoDB (or other NoSQL DBs) and preferably ClickHouse, Druid, Pinot or similar OLAP databases
• Strong foundation in applying your programming, algorithms, and software application design skillset to build performant systems
• Exposure to working with databases, data pipelines and distributed data at scale
• Solid understanding of RESTful systems and the principles of good API design
• You have experience working in – or a strong interest in learning – Ruby on Rails 

About Sensor Tower

Sensor Tower is a high-growth SaaS company that provides accurate, comprehensive, and customizable mobile market economy analytics to app developers, game developers, industry analysts and investors. Founded in 2013, Sensor Tower has grown from a $1M seed investment to being profitable and in 2020 we received a $42M growth investment from Riverwood Capital.

Why Sensor Tower?

Our flexible work environment allows employees to live in greater connection with the people, places, and activities they love! 

Our benefits include:

– Flexible time off so employees can shape their time away from work.

– Health and wellness stipend to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle through physical and mental fitness.

– Monthly internet stipend and a one-time $500 home office stipend.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, and veteran status. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. If you have a disability or special need, please do not hesitate to let us know and we’ll do our best to accommodate.