About Us
In a digital economy, data is the 21st century gold rush. Imagine working for a big data company with 10 petabytes of data at your fingertips. A company where we are deriving insights from 35+ terabytes of new data every week. 84.51° is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Kroger Company. Our data is sourced from consumer transactions and behavior across 24 banners, 38 states and 58 million households. We are the research, development and innovation arm of the nation’s second largest retailer. We create advanced data driven solutions putting the customer at the center of all of our decisions.
What you’ll do
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be part of a cross-functional team, applying your skill, experience and creativity towards building complex and scalable solutions. You will work in a highly collaborative environment, solving exciting problems while leveraging best engineering practices. We work full-stack and the team owns features end-to-end. On our teams, we’re working daily with product, design and data scientists to understand the problem and translate learnings into a pragmatic and effective solution. We happily pull in a peer when we need a pair to get through a tough problem or just for a second pair of eyes. We are always balancing new feature development with efforts to continuously improve both our efficiency and our infrastructure.
You should have:
A passion for bringing great products into our world through collaboration and ingenuity
Strong Python development experience
Experience developing automated tests using Python-based frameworks
Experience with PySpark
Experience writing infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Experience with Azure DevOps
Experience working with relational databases
Good knowledge on query optimization and performance tuning.
A passion for learning from and collaborating with a diverse, talented team and mentoring junior team members
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree typically in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, Business Analytics or another technically strong program
Minimum 2+ years Python/PySpark experience
Minimum 1 year working with Terraform
Minimum 1 year of Azure experience (Azure DevOps, security)
Some experience creating and managing data pipelines for loading various sources into data warehouses
Excellent communication skills - you can effectively work with engineers but at the same time collaborate with product owners, data analysts and stakeholders
Ability to monitor metrics and identify ways to improve
Preferred Skills include:
Experience with Python web framework such as: Django, Flask
Experience with automating the deployment, configuration, and management of complex cloud environments
Proficiency in the use of Terraform to provision and manage cloud resources
Understanding of security requirements, particularly as it applies to compliance standards
Experience with Python and shell scripting
Experience with PySpark
Experience with Snowflake is desired but not required.
