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With over 40 million monthly active users, our flagship platform delivers highly personalized local news and information powered by advanced AI, recommendation systems, and adtech.\nRecognized by Fast Company as #32 on the Top Workplaces for Innovators, we're proud to be Great Place to Work® certified and home to a dynamic team of technologists, product innovators, and business leaders who are passionate about solving meaningful challenges at scale.\nTogether, we reached unicorn status in 2021, and we remain committed to continuing this high-growth trajectory with the right team to fulfill our mission: building the infrastructure layer for content intelligence.\nIf you’re inspired to dream big, innovate fast, and make a difference, we’d love to hear from you! For more information, visit www.newsbreak.com/about\nAbout the Role\nNewsBreak reaches tens of millions of users every day. Every feed ranking decision, every recommendation, every A/B test, and every ML model we ship runs on the data infrastructure you'd own. We're looking for a senior engineer to build and scale the batch and streaming pipelines at the core of that platform - someone who takes end-to-end ownership, drives reliability, and can translate ambiguous business needs into production-grade data systems.\nResponsibilities\n Own the streaming data backbone - design and operate high-throughput Kafka pipelines carrying user events (clicks, reads, impressions, shares) from mobile clients through to downstream consumers: the data warehouse and real-time analytics.\nBuild and maintain batch pipelines at scale - author and optimize Spark jobs processing billions of rows daily: content ingestion, engagement aggregation, and user-level feature computation. 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Unblock downstream teams without becoming a ticket queue.\nImprove efficiency - reduce compute costs and job latency through query optimization, smarter partitioning, better resource scheduling, and tiered storage strategies.\n Raise the platform bar - contribute to shared infrastructure: pipeline framework standards, orchestration patterns (Airflow), reusable Spark libraries, and data catalog hygiene. 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Pay may vary based on a number of factors including job-related skills, level, experience, geographic location and relevant education or training. At NewsBreak, we design our overall rewards package to attract top talents. Depending on the position, the role may also be eligible for discretionary bonus and options. 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