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By combining expert vehicle reviews and real-time consumer and automotive market insights with a suite of intuitive shopping tools, we empower millions of people to buy, sell, and price cars with total confidence. While we are an established leader in automotive tech, our company thrives on innovation and agility, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in a competitive industry to keep our customers and our culture at the forefront.\nWhat You’re Applying For:\nThe Data Platform team manages, supports, and enhances the system that powers Edmunds’ business intelligence. Our user base consists of analysts, engineers, business owners, sales, and executives. Analysts and engineers use the Data Platform to build production pipelines that ingest and curate Edmunds core data. Business users interact with AI tools, reports, dashboards, and other query engines to glean insights from said data. The Data Platform team is seeking a great engineer to help us grow, maintain and support this system that almost every Edmunds employee utilizes day to day.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nAdminister and support our Databricks platform and the underlying AWS infrastructure.\nSupport and collaborate with various cross-functional customers such as:Business & Executives\nEngineering teams & Data Science\nAnalytics\nSecurity & Infrastructure\n\nExplore, POC, and propose adoption of new features and technologies for the platform.\nBuild and maintain ETL pipelines for operational data that help us understand the health of the many different facets of the Data Platform.\nBuild, enhance, and maintain IaC artifacts for admin tooling (CDK, Terraform).\nEnsure teams can effectively use the Data Platform to build internal and external facing AI solutions.\nBuild, enhance, and maintain dashboards, alerts, and reports that allow us to act on operational, cost, and security signals.\nWhat You Need:\n4+ years of experience in Data Engineering or similar role.\nProficiency in Spark (Python or Scala).\nFluency in Python and SQL.\nExtensive experience both using and administering Databricks.\nFamiliarity with IaC concepts and hands on experience with Terraform and/or CDK.\nExcellent problem solving, troubleshooting, and communication skills in a hybrid environment.\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.\nThe compensation range for this position is $125,000 - $159,000 per year. The base pay will take into account internal equity as well as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. In addition, Edmunds offers full-time employees a comprehensive total rewards package including the benefits listed below.\nEdmunds Perks:\nFlexible time off\n13 Paid Holidays\nComprehensive Health Benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)\nFlexible Spending Accounts (Employees) and Health Savings Accounts (Employee and Employer Contributions)\n401K Plan with company matching at 100%, up to 6% of eligible salary with immediate vesting\nStock purchase program\nCarMax vehicle discount\nUp to 4 months Paid Parental Leave\nHeartCash matches employee donations to the causes that are important to them\n2 Days of Paid Time Off for time to dedicate to social impact causes\nFitCash covers a portion of gym or fitness activity fees\nWell-being sessions\nEmployee Recognition Program\nOn-going career development opportunities\nPet insurance\nSabbatical leave\nEducation Reimbursement\nPre-tax spending accounts for qualified transportation expenses\nWorking @ Edmunds.com:\nEmployees think it’s a pretty great place to work and some pretty impressive publications think it is too: we have been recognized as one of the best places to work by Fortune Magazine, Great Places to Work, LA Business Journal, Newsweek, Computerworld, Built in LA, Inc. Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week Magazine, and Architectural Record. We've also been identified as one of the best workplaces specifically in Technology, for Diversity and Asian Americans, and as a Newsweek Most Loved Workplace for LGBTQ+ employees. 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