Senior Platform Data engineer

About Project

Riskified empowers merchants and shoppers to realize the full potential of eCommerce by making it safe, accessible, and frictionless. Riskified global team helps the world’s most-innovative eCommerce merchants eliminate risk and uncertainty from their business. Merchants integrate Riskified’s machine learning platform to create trusted customer relationships, driving higher sales while reducing costs. Riskified has reviewed hundreds of millions of transactions and approved billions of dollars of revenue for global brands and fast-growing businesses across industries, including Wayfair, Wish, Peloton, Gucci, and many more. As of July 29th, 2021, Riskified has begun trading on NYSE under the ticker RSKD. Check Riskified Technology Blog for a deeper dive into R&D work.

About the Role 
Big data analysis is at the core of our technology. Riskified’s broad spectrum of departments - From data science to performance analytics, to customer support and finance - All depend on fast and easy access to high-volume data. Our growth heavily depends on a system that can quickly and efficiently process data at scale. Our revolutionary approach for Data Science, a key component in our success, relies heavily on our Big Data team to digest, process and serve data produced by billions of events per day. Our key data pipelines include: Streaming events in near real-time from multiple high-scale production services into our data lake. Processing data for our complex model training flow. Data pipelines supporting complex fraud detection patterns, potentially preventing fraud on a scale of millions of dollars per day. Our Technological Stack includes: Scala/Spark, Databricks, Data Hub, Elasticsearch, Airflow, Snowflake, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes, and more. As a Data Platform Engineer, you will solve complex problems that require a varied and multi-disciplinary skill set. You’ll be required to understand the bigger picture, design system architecture, build highly complex data flows, and manage multiple, multi-faceted projects at once.

What You'll Be Doing