Golang Job: Senior Data Engineer

Want to deliver tech with purpose, with people who care?
Join us and develop cutting-edge software solutions that help keep children safe online.

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What’s the opportunity?*
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be responsible for leading a team of passionate engineers, managing high-performance data. Most importantly, you will be a valued member of the wider engineering team, and what you do will be used by customers in homes and schools around the globe. You will tackle new and challenging problems by building a new generation of data processing and analytics systems for filtering, monitoring and security used at schools. You will actively participate in architecture; design and development of features for the company’s data processing and analytics platforms.

This is a hands on role where you will solve complex data engineering and analytics problems and build the necessary support on the backend, whilst being able to design complex test cases for the system and work with teams to suggest and implement improvements to the development processes

The Technology Team at Family Zone highly values diversity and inclusion in our hiring process. As we strive toward a more diverse workforce, we encourage all interested candidates to apply. Even if you're worried you might not be a perfect fit at first glance, we'd love to talk to you

Here's how you'll do it?

• Create data driven solutions to meet software and data requirements
• Identify, evaluate, select, and prove out new technologies and toolsets
• Lead and direct the work of others in real-time data dependent project
• Collaborate with software development, business teams and other teams to establish solution requirements and design platform solutions that address current and future needs
• Identify and plan for future roadmap enhancements that evolve as business needs evolve
• Create solutions that adhere to security, retention, and availability policies for critical, sensitive data
• Identify areas of development and need
• Provide targeted training and exploration for team members
• Train and mentor data engineers on standards and best practices

Who are we?
We’re a tech company that exists to protect and support every child's digital journey. We’ve grown fast - we’re ASX-listed and currently have over 400 people, working in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, New Zealand, the UK and the US. We’re all proud of our incredible journey so far... and the best is yet to come. That’s where you come in!

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What you will bring: *

• Supporting a 24x7 real time data pipeline, with effective monitoring and issue resolution
• Design and develop data pipelines on a large scale in Google Cloud, BigQuery, Dataflow, Beam SDK and other modern technology tools.
• Strong skills with SQL, and at least one of: Java, Python, and GoLang
• Skilled in data modeling
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes is a plus
• Experience building pipelines and downstream data assets
• Experience in RESTful APIs and API Communication is a plus
• Experience with Cloud platforms such as Google, Azure and AWS is a nice to have
• Experience with real time data capturing environments
• Able to troubleshoot system-level integration and performance issues
• Experience in DevOps, CI/CD and Agile environments

You'll have:

• Experience in a similar role is essential
• Minimum of 3 years Data Engineering experience in an enterprise environment
• Strong software engineering experience
• Experience of managing and mentoring teams
• Ideally would have operated in a variety of roles within the Data space
• Bachelor’s degree in technology or evidence of professional development \Fast learner and eager to absorb new emerging technologies
• Can-do attitude on problem-solving, quality and ability to execute
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Experience in building data pipelines is a plus

Why choose Linewize by Family Zone?
In this role, you can expect:

• Employee Share Scheme
• Zone Out Days
• Technology Allowance
• Learning Allowance
• and much more

More importantly, you’ll:

• Deliver tech with purpose...

As a Senior Data Engineer here, your work truly matters. Your skills, knowledge and ideas will all help children stay safe online. It feels good to do good.

• With people who care...

Our Data, Platform and AI Team are amazing! They’re also amazingly supportive. We all take ownership of our work, end to end. And at the same time, we really care about growing and winning together.

• Through work that you love...

You’ll get to work on technology and data scaling challenges for a global customer base. And you'll be exposed to modern technologies and processes, in a fast-paced and supportive learning environment.

• And a career that you own...

This role offers so many opportunities to expand your skills and grow your career. You’ll get to attend local software conferences, paid for by us. And as you step up and take ownership to make things happen, you’ll carve out an incredible career.

We'd love to hear from you. Please submit your application if you would like to be considered for this opportunity. At this stage we are only accepting applications from those with full Australian working rights.

Shortlisting will commence immediately.

Job Type: Full-time