Big Data Infrastructure Engineer

Role Title: Big Data Infrastructure Engineer

The Company: 

At impact.com our culture is our soul. We are passionate about our people, our technology, and are obsessed with customer success. Working together enables us to grow rapidly, win, and serve the largest brands in the world. We use cutting edge technology to solve real-world problems for our clients and continue to pull ahead of the pack as the leading SaaS platform for businesses to automate their partnerships and grow their revenue like never before. We have an entrepreneurial spirit and a culture where ambition and curiosity is rewarded. If you are looking to join a team where your opinion is valued, your contributions are noticed, and enjoy working with fun and talented people from all over the world, then this is the place for you!

impact.com is the global leader in Partnership Automation. We work with enterprise and innovative brands like Ticketmaster, Levi’s, Microsoft, Airbnb, and Uber to help them manage all different types of partnerships. From social influencers, B2B, strategic partners, publishers, and traditional affiliates, we have them covered. Our combined suite of products covers the full life partnership lifecycle including onboarding, tracking ads and paying partners, recruiting for new partners, data and marketing intelligence, and protection from fraud. Founded in 2008 by the same team that founded Commission Junction, impact.com has grown to over 1,000 employees and thirteen offices across the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia. 

Why this role is exciting! 

The Data Infrastructure Engineer will work within Impact's Data Group and is responsible for Infrastructure related to the Data Platform.  The individual will be working in the Google Cloud environment supporting all technology used by various squads ranging from Cloudera administration, HDFS / Impala, Kafka, Big Query, and our various clusters.

What you will be doing: 

• Manage daily operations, processes, and projects relating to Cloud (GCP) infrastructure
• Communicate with multiple squads and compile both business and technical expertise in each
• Support the technical infrastructure working closely with all internal clients and stakeholders
• Use technologies like puppet, terraform, or ansible to automate deployments
• Administration, basic/advanced troubleshooting, and solution providing
• Experience in HDFS, HBase, Kudu, BigQuery, BigTable, Kafka, etc.
• Ensure monitoring on all production/critical devices and services via LogicMonitor, OpsGenie, others
• Participate in on-call rotation. Ensure continuous uptime of company products.
• Respond and assist internal clients with any technical enquiries
• Deployment of database and Hadoop products
• Manage Production backups, disaster recovery, replication to staging
• Administration and basic/advanced troubleshooting of networking, load balancing, storage, server hardware, Linux
• Create scripts to automate ad hoc tasks. (Python/Ruby/Bash)
• Knowledge of Java runtime environments and how it behaves
• Basic knowledge and administration of databases

Does this sound like you?  

• 5+ years experience working in highly available global technology infrastructure in a collaborative environment, preferably with some leadership
• 3+ years Virtual infrastructure - Google Cloud preferred
• 3+ years Systems and networks infrastructure, including design & architecture
• 2+ years Database administration / SQL
• 3+ years Hadoop use and administration
• 5+ years working in Linux System Administration 
• Need to understand how  operating systems work and use this knowledge to set-up and configure a reliable operating system to ensure minimal or no downtime.
• Very good knowledge of virtualization products, how they work, how to set-up a virtual infrastructure and perform maintenance periodically.
• Excellent knowledge of storage solutions and how to set-up, configure and administer the storage devices.
• Knowledge of Network and Internet protocols (TCP, UDP and HTTP).
• Configuration management tools (e.g. Puppet)
• Scripting languages (Bash, Python, Ruby, etc.)
• Experience working with Load Balancers

Benefits (Perks):

• Medical, Dental and Vision insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible work hours
• Parental Leave
• Catered lunch every Friday, a healthy snack bar, and great coffee to keep you fueled. 
• Flexible spending accounts and 401(k)
• An employee-led culture team that plans inclusive events- meaning time together and other events to celebrate our many successes!
• An established company with a cool, high-velocity work ethos, where each person can make a difference!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.