Company Description

PayScale is the world leader in modern compensation software. We believe data-informed discussions about compensation benefit both employers and employees and that greater pay transparency promotes equity, engagement and employee retention. We are bringing the dark art of compensation into the light by helping individuals understand the right pay for their position and more than 7,000 businesses retain and manage their largest investment: their people.

We’re transforming the compensation industry and are looking to bring on talented professionals like you with diverse perspectives. At PayScale, we acknowledge and value our differences as well as our combined strengths. We want all employees, regardless of their background, to feel respected personally and professionally. We foster a working environment that generates new ideas, promotes ownership and experimentation and encourages highly motivated individuals to be truly creative. Are you tenacious and inventive? If so, PayScale may be the perfect place for you to grow your career!

Job Description

Does empowering teams to make data driven decisions excite you? Do you wake up in the morning wondering what possibilities could be unlocked with more data? PayScale is looking for a seasoned engineer to join the data engineering team. The Data Engineering Team focuses on making possible fast, accurate, and reliable access to data. We build data pipelines, manage a data warehouse, and support the productization of our data. We advocate for good data practices and make sure that the many PayScale teams are able to make good data driven decisions.

Technologies We're Using

• C#, Docker, Azure Web Apps, AWS ECS, Dynamo, SQL, Elasticsearch, Postgres, and Octopus
• For Data Warehousing and Reporting we use Snowflake, Spark, Tableau, and PowerBi
• For ETL and pipelining we use, Python, Team City, AWS Lambda,

First Year in Role:

• Month 3: Partnering with your teammates, you have completed a couple handfuls of bug fixes and feature changes. Your changes will be live in production making an impact on our consumer users and company metrics.
• Month 6: At this point, you have completely ramped up on the team with the ability to pick up any task on the sprint board and complete it on your own from start to finish.
• Month 12: You are fully integrated into the PayScale engineering organization and you are an authority in many of the projects, services, and processes that we own as a team. You are mentoring others, proposing designs and offering better ways to deliver as a team.

Qualifications

• You have 5+ years experience building services.
• You have previous experience with cloud provides (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• You have built and deployed micro services.
• You are a c# master.
• You are strong in database systems including relational databases and document databases.
• You have familiarity/experience with unit testing and crafting testable code.
• You are able to explain technical concepts to developers, project managers, and technical managers.
• You have the ability and desire to work with a team of people solving complex problems that often require independent research with minimal supervision.
• You have excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills.

Additional Information

PayScale provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. PayScale complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.

Benefits We Offer:

• Unlimited Paid Time Off policy
• 100% company paid medical/vision/dental/prescription premiums for employees (50% for eligible dependents and partners)
• Four Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for pre-tax employee allocations towards:
• Medical
• Dependent Care (can be used towards day care costs!)
• Parking
• Transit

Long Term Disability, Short Term Disability, and Company-paid Life Insurance

• Maternity and Paternity Leave
• 10 paid holidays!
• Summer office closure, entire week of July 4th
• 401k with company match, vests immediately

Perks:

• Casual dress code (JSS - Jeans, shorts, and sandals welcome!)
• Onsite lockers, showers, and clothes dryer
• Bike storage
• Coworkers you actually like...
• Gender neutral bathrooms on most floors
• Mothers' Room
• Sitting-Standing ergo friendly desks
• Weekly company sponsored happy hours
• Fido Fridays (our canine colleagues join us the first Friday of every month. WOOF!)