Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Red Ventures is the parent company of Bankrate, which is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to enhance its data platform that supports analytics for financial decision-making. The role involves building and maintaining data systems, optimizing pipelines, and collaborating with various teams to deliver high-quality data solutions.
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and optimize data pipelines and infrastructure in Databricks and AWS (S3, EC2, Lambda, etc.)
- Audit and document existing pipelines to identify gaps, improve reliability, and strengthen data quality
- Integrate third-party data sources and APIs into the platform, ensuring clean ingestion, transformation, and validation
- Partner closely with BI and analytics teams to translate business needs into scalable data models and solutions, bridging the gap between data engineering and the semantic layer
- Develop automated workflows for data ingestion, transformation, and validation
- Implement best practices in data architecture, security, observability, and governance
- Collaborate with data stakeholders on privacy-safe data sharing solutions, including clean-room environments and other secure data exchange methods
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to team engineering standards
- Support data migration efforts, moving data from internal systems to production-grade environments
- Contribute to platform improvements that enhance performance, reliability, and cost efficiency
Skills
- 5+ years of data engineering experience designing and deploying large-scale data solutions
- Strong proficiency in SQL and solid skills in a modern language such as Python or Scala, with an emphasis on building reliable, performant data pipelines
- Hands-on experience with Databricks, Spark, and AWS cloud services
- Strong understanding of data modeling, ELT/ETL design, and distributed data systems
- Familiarity with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Terraform, Airflow)
- Experience integrating third-party data sources and external APIs into data platforms
- Experience supporting BI and analytics platforms such as Looker or similar
- Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- A collaborative mindset with a track record of working well across teams
Benefits
- Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
- Life Insurance
- Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Holiday Pay
- 401(k) with match
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program
- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): We believe time to rest and recharge is essential. That’s why we offer a generous and flexible PTO policy. Full-time employees accrue 20 days of PTO for a full calendar year annually, with an increase to 25 days after five years of service.
Company Overview
A portfolio of influential brands, digital platforms, and strategic partnerships that help people make life's most important decisions. It was founded in 2000, and is headquartered in Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.redventures.com.