Data Engineer - Self Service Analytics and Real Time Data Platforms

Viacom CBS
New York, NY
Category Data Analyst
Job Description
Role Overview

The Data Engineering team is seeking a Data Engineer to build scalable data products, semantic layers, and real-time data platforms. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining batch and near real-time streaming data pipelines, as well as enabling self-service analytics through governed and reusable business data models.

What You Will Do

Design and develop scalable batch and near real-time streaming data pipelines, implement monitoring and operational best practices, and develop governed data access patterns for AI and conversational analytics applications.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have 2-4+ years of experience in data engineering, data pipeline development, and related fields, with a solid foundation in modern data engineering principles, distributed systems design, and cloud-native architectures.

Requirements

  • Advanced Data Pipeline & ETL/ELT Expertise
  • 2–4+ years of experience building and scaling ETL/ELT pipelines in production environments
  • Proven experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow, Composer, or similar platforms
  • Working knowledge of distributed data processing concepts
  • Expert-level SQL skills for large-scale transformation and analytics
  • Experience designing scalable warehouse schemas and ML-ready data layers
  • Proficiency in Python (or similar language) for data processing and ML pipeline integration
  • Experience integrating data pipelines with ML platforms such as Vertex AI (preferred), Databricks ML, or equivalent
  • Experience building real-time data pipelines using Kafka, Pub/Sub, or similar technologies
  • Knowledge of feature streaming, low-latency data processing, and event-driven architectures
  • Ability to work closely with the streaming team to architect and build real-time dashboards using Superset
  • Experience designing cloud-native data architectures (GCP preferred)
  • Experience with lakehouse architectures and cloud data warehouses
  • Knowledge of vector databases, embeddings pipelines, and AI-serving infrastructure is a plus

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision
  • 401(k) plan
  • Life insurance coverage
  • Disability benefits
  • Tuition assistance program
  • PTO
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