Homes.com - Senior Data Engineer Job Description Homes.com is already one of the fastest growing real estate portals in the industry, we are driven to be #1. Just ask Brad Bellflower, Chief Change Officer at Apartments.com. After its acquisition in 2014, Apartments.com quickly turned into the most popular place to find a place. Proven success at the highest level – and we’re doing it again with the new Homes.com. Homes.com is a CoStar Group company with 20+ years' experience in leading and growing digital marketplaces. We pride ourselves on continually improving, innovating, and setting the standard for property search and marketing experiences. With Homes.com we’re building a brand on the cusp of defining the industry. We’re looking for big thinkers, brave leaders, and creative advertising wizards ready to influence a new age of homebuying within a tried-and-true, award-winning company. Learn more about Homes.com We are hiring a talented **Senior Data Engineer** in roles related to building cloud-based data pipelines for machine learning, data processing with Apache Spark, and database development. This position is located in San Diego, CA (UTC Area) and offers 2 days remote per week. **Responsibilities** + Designing, building, testing and deploying scalable, reusable and maintainable applications that handle substantial amounts of data. + Taking full ownership of your work from development and testing to eventual deployment and support in production. + Collaborating with other engineers, product owners, designers, and leadership. + Becoming a trusted team member in matters of technical architecture, design and code. + Advocating for evolution and improvement - both technical and non-technical - within our teams. Includes new tech, tools and best practices. + Gaining a deep understanding of the CoStar business, including the Analytic products. **Basic Qualifications** + Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university or college + A track record of commitment to prior employers + A demonstrable record of accomplishment of building and launching successful products that use terabytes of data + 5+ years of data pipeline engineering experience, and/or deep database engineering experience + Ability to analyze technical requirements and design new architectures, data models and ETL strategies + Hands-on experience with cloud-based relational and non-relational databases + Deliver work products that meet specifications, are free of defects, with excellent performance + Define Architecture and Development best practices + Facilitate discussions among developers to exchange ideas and introduce innovative technologies + Evaluate emerging technologies to find opportunities, trends and best practices that can be used to strengthen CoStar’s technology platform and development practices + Willingness to take an active role in mentoring other developers **Preferred Qualifications And Skills** + Performance tuning of database queries (SQL Server or PostgreSQL), database design, monitoring, and analysis + Experience with No-SQL databases (e.g. DynamoDB) + Experience with data pipeline tools (e.g. Glue, Step Functions, Lambda) + Experience using Confluent Kafka + Knowledge and/or experience working with Apache Spark/Databricks + Monitoring & dashboard metric management (e.g. CloudWatch, Kibana) **What’s** **in it for** **Y** **ou** When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed. We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program. Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to): + Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug + Life, legal, and supplementary insurance + Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family + Commuter and parking benefits + 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions + Employee stock purchase plan + Paid time off + Tuition reimbursement On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes Access to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks This position offers a base salary range of **$110,000 -** **$190,000** , based on relevant skills and experience and includes a generous benefits plan. \#LI-IZ1 CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 37 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable products and services. We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry and for our customers. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate. CoStar is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. 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