Affinity stitches together billions of data points from massive datasets to create a powerful, accurate representation of the world's professional relationship graph. Based on this data, we offer our users the insights and visibility they need to nurture and tap into their team's network of opportunities.

This role is part of the AI Insights team, which owns the services that power Affinity's industry-leading relationship intelligence platform. Our team extracts and retrieves information from billions of structured and unstructured data points to deliver insights to our customers.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will collaborate with machine learning engineers, software engineers, and product managers to shape the future of private capital's leading CRM platform. This involves designing and building scalable, efficient data extraction, load, and transform (ELT) solutions, monitoring and managing data quality, and ensuring data security and best practices.

What you’ll be doing:

• Design scalable and reliable data pipelines to consume, integrate and analyze large volumes of complex data from different sources, supporting the evolving needs of our business.
• Help define our data roadmap. You'll collaborate with our team of machine learning engineers, software engineers, product, and business leaders to use data to shape product development.
• Build and maintain frameworks for measuring and monitoring data quality and integrity.
• Establish and optimize CI/CD processes, test frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Build and implement robust data solutions using Spark, Python, Databricks, Kafka, and the AWS ecosystem (including S3, Redshift, EMR, Athena, Glue).

Qualifications:

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every qualification. At Affinity, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align with the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Required:

• 5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or Data Platform Engineer, working on complex, sometimes ambiguous engineering projects across team boundaries.
• Proficiency in data modeling, data warehousing, and ETL pipeline development is essential.
• Proven hands-on experience building scalable data platforms and reliable data pipelines using Spark and Databricks, and familiarity with Hadoop, AWS SQS, AWS Kinesis, Kafka, or similar technologies.

Nice to have:

• Hands-on experience with both relational and non-relational database/data stores, including vector databases (e.g. Weaviate, Milvus), graph databases, and text search engines (e.g. OpenSearch or Vespa clusters), with a focus on indexing and query optimization.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, such as Terraform.
• Experience implementing data consistency measures using validation and monitoring tools.

Tech Stack: Our Data stack includes tools to build data pipelines between AWS RDS and DBX via scheduled batch jobs and streaming syncing. Spark SQL and MLlib for large-scale data processing in DBX. We also build data pipelines between RDS and other search-optimized engines, such as openSearch. In-house data quality tools and governance tools to ensure data quality, security and compliance.

How we work:

Our culture is a key part of how we operate, as well as our hiring process:

• We iterate quickly. As such, you must be comfortable embracing ambiguity, be able to cut through it, and deliver value to our customers.
• We are candid, transparent, and speak our minds while simultaneously caring personally with each person we interact with.
• We make data-driven decisions and make the best decision for the moment based on the information available.

What you'll enjoy at Affinity:

• We live our values: As owners, we take pride in everything we do. We embrace a growth mindset, engage in respectful candor, act as playmakers, and "taste the soup" by diving deep into experiences to create the best outcomes for our colleagues and clients.

Please note that the role compensation details below reflect the base salary only and do not include any equity or benefits. This represents the salary range that Affinity believes, in good faith, at the time of this posting, that it will pay for the posted job.

A reasonable estimate of the current range is $113,000 to $187,000 CAD. Within the range, individual pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant.

About Affinity

With more than 3,000 customers worldwide and backed by some of Silicon Valley's best firms, Affinity has raised $120M to empower dealmakers to find, manage, and close more deals. How? Our Relationship Intelligence platform uses the wealth of data exhaust from trillions of interactions between Investment Bankers, Venture Capitalists, Consultants, and other strategic dealmakers to deliver automated relationship insights that drive over 450,000 deals every month. We are are proud to have received Inc. and Fortune Best Workplaces awards as well as to be Great Places to Work certified for the last 5 years running. Join us on our mission to make it possible for anyone to cultivate and fully harness their network to succeed.

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