Associate Data Engineer

Ibotta is looking for a software-focused Associate Data Engineer to join our team and contribute to our mission to Make Every Purchase Rewarding. Accelerating development of our cutting-edge data platform as a leader in the Data Platform Organization, you will work with both engineering and analytics to develop and own stable, scalable, and approachable data platforms. We're looking for a self-motivated engineer who has a passion for enabling data mesh concepts while heavily leveraging AWS cloud and Databricks Lakehouse technologies. The data engineering team is central to delivering and maintaining our modern data, analytics, and decisioning platforms across Ibotta.

This position is located in Denver, Colorado as a hybrid position requiring 3 days in office, (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). Candidates must live in the United States.

What you will be doing:

• Work with cross-functional engineering teams to enable approachable and self-service data movement and access patterns

• Provide guidance and assistance to stakeholders with building complex datasets that meet the business needs.

• Identify, design, and implement process improvements including automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater reliability and performance.

• Work as a member of the Data Engineering squad to deliver product features and resolve data related technical issues.

• Work with information security to keep our data secure.

• Support the engineering of distributed systems, frameworks, and design patterns enabling efficient usage of Ibotta’s Data Lake

• Use Scala or Python to utilize Spark to collect and manage data at scale

• Help build and manage automation tools, data pipelines that meets Data Governance and Data Security Standards 

• Evangelize Data Engineering and supporting capabilities with Platform and Analytics teams.

• Perform incident resolution and root cause analysis of critical outages. Implement solutions to systematic failures. Provide on-call support, including after-hours on a rotational basis.

• Assist with documentation of the environments and data tooling that support our products.

• Embrace and uphold Ibotta’s Core Values: Integrity, Boldness, Ownership, Teamwork, Transparency, & A good idea can come from anywhere 

What we are looking for:

• 0-1+ years of experience in software development, preferably with Java and Python. 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field required

• Exposure to datastores/databases and understands data concepts

• Understanding of tables schemas 

• Exposure to data file formats like csv or parquet

• Experience in database design principles supported by strong SQL abilities

• Exposure building processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management

• Experience being a key critical contributor participating in small and medium projects 

• Familiarity Agile (Kanban or Scrum) development experience

• Exposure with the following a strong plus:

  • AWS Cloud Services; EC2, S3

  • Experience with Scala and Spark

  • Experience with Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, or Apache Hudi

  • Message Brokers such as Kafka or Kinesis

  • ETL tools and processes (Airflow or other similar tools)

  • Infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, etc

  • Experience building APIs and libraries