Data Engineer Senior (m/f/d)

LIVE THE MUSIC WITH US

From a pioneer tech start-up created in 2007, Deezer has become one of the first French unicorns and the second largest independent music streaming platform in the world.
At eighteen years old, we’re only just coming of age. Now listed on #EuroNext, Deezer is a rapidly-growing, cutting-edge player in the music streaming market. If you want an environment where you can make your voice heard and be at the forefront of music and tech, look no further!

We believe music is all about embracing the things that make us different. 
Deezer is a vibrant community that celebrates uniqueness, diversity and individuality, and thrives on collaboration.
Our international and passionate teams pride themselves on being at the forefront of the music experience, going beyond streaming and helping the world to Live the Music. We’re constantly evolving alongside our customers, partners, artists and employees — striving to make Deezer the most personal and innovative streaming service in the world.

Ready for an electrifying journey? Apply now and do your part in bringing extraordinary music experiences to people’s lives!

Job Description

Our scope covers everything related to content, which starts with ingesting new deliveries (be it music releases, but also podcasts or lyrics among others) into our catalog, continuously cleaning and curating its content by providing internal tools and automation, goes on with serving this content back to our end users through our different access points (mobile and desktop apps, website, APIs) and is concluded by reporting highly detailed usage data to content providers and right holders for analysis and royalties distribution. 

In short: we connect Deezer users and content creators through robust ingestion, engaging display and smart data feedback.

What you will do:

• Based on several hundreds million of listening events per day, design & develop reliable data pipelines autonomously and be accountable for them

• Play a part in royalties calculation and reportings

• Improve the current data ingestion system

• Have a relevant monitoring of the data pipeline

• Work in collaboration with our stakeholders to answer their needs

• Participate in story planning, standups and retrospectives with the team.

• Produce and update documentation and tutorials that enable other teams to easily use your new features.

• Propose performance solutions and improvements to existing features, with the help of other team members

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in Data engineering
• Experience in using Big Data, mixing experience in building and maintaining data pipelines in production
• Ability to understand, explain and challenge complex architectures
• Proficient in either Java, Scala or Python
• Very good knowledge or previous experience with our stack, streaming pipelines and/or building APIs would be definitely a plus.
• Engineering skills: code design and quality, tests, reviews, logging, monitoring, continuous integration, DevOps… .
• Rigorous and enthusiastic team-player
• Good organizational and communication skills
• Passionate about problem solving

Our stack

• ETL: Scala + Spark - Python

• Analysis: BigQuery / DataStudio

• Orchestrator: Airflow

• Database: Cassandra, MySQL

• Infra: GCP + Kubernetes on Premise - Monitoring: Grafana

If you don’t meet 100% of the

qualifications

Additional Information

At Deezer, you can be your true self as we believe that #everyvoicematters. We strive to build an inclusive culture and foster a diverse environment. Because we care and want to ensure each employee feels welcome and safe at work, we continuously focus on fighting biases and helping diverse teams work well together through multiple learning opportunities, e-learnings and workshops right from the onboarding :

• Regular Diversity & Inclusion internal and external talks

• Dedicated employee work streams on Gender equity, Ethnicity & Culture, Disability and LGBTQ+

• Multiple e-learnings and mandatory training sessions for all managers

• English and French courses for all, so that everyone can connect and feel included

Beyond benefits like health insurance, transportation, we offer you extra perks like:

• A Deezer premium family account for free

• Access to gym classes

• Join over 70 Deezer Communities to connect beyond your day-to-day work, share passions, learn from each other and #Belong.

• Deezer parties several times a year and drinks every thursday

• Mental health and well-being support from Moka.Care

• Allowance for sports, travelling and culture

• Mental health and well-being support from Moka.Care

• Meal vouchers

• Great offices always located in dynamic and attractive districts, whether in Paris, London or Sao Paulo!

• Hybrid remote work policy

If you want to learn more about life and culture at Deezer, please visit our Welcome to the Jungle page here !