Business Data Engineer

About Beatport

For over 20 years, Beatport has been the global leader in DJ and club culture, pushing the boundaries of dance music to all corners of the world. Created by DJs for DJs, Beatport has always been dedicated to innovating new products and services to support evolving generations of music performers and producers.

The Beatport Group includes some of the best-known brands in DJ culture, including Beatport, Beatsource, DJcity, Plugin Boutique, Beatport Streaming, Ampsuite, LabelRadar, Beatport.io & The International Music Summit (IMS). We are consistently looking for bright, creative professionals with diverse perspectives and backgrounds.

Where you come in: 

We are looking to hire a talented Business Data Engineer. This role requires an experienced background in designing, developing and documenting data ecosystems that are highly scalable, robust, efficient and performant while solving primary business problems and offering excellent user experiences. 

Our business is engaged in the entire stack of software technologies from data storage and reporting, to middle layer APIs and hardware embedded SDK’s, to reactive single-page web and mobile applications that stream music with fluid interfaces. The backend data engineer’s role is to build & manage APIs as well as our data warehouses, models and repositories so that they reliably answer questions needed for our business and software operations.

The Role

This is a high impact role in a growing company. You’ll work on the data engineering team to build, maintain and execute our financial and usage reporting, data collection and analysis. You’ll work alongside our head of royalties and finance teams to understand and translate their vision into working models, and work on databases, data pipelines and products to assist the teams in accomplishing their objectives.

This role requires eligibility to work in the United States or Canada without need for visa sponsorship. The right Business Data Engineer can be fully remote from anywhere in the Pacific Northwest area of North America & Canada.

As a Business Data Engineer you are accountable for:

• Developing software on a daily basis through the backend of our stack 
• Building integrations and data sources for financial reporting and analytics tools
• Writing SQL, building and automating ETL and transaction jobs, auditing data cohesion and investigating discrepancies
• Working with data scientists to build and support datasets for specialized applications
• Planning and designing RDBMS and data warehouses, data models, repositories and pipelines with best practices for performance and scalability
• Create and maintain documentation for APIs, data pipelines, data models and data dictionaries

As a Business Data Engineer you will require:

• 3+ years of programming SQL-based data access against RDBMS database systems such as MS SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres or Oracle
• Experience working with data warehouses and data warehousing concepts such as data marts, data lakes, cloud warehouse infrastructure, ELT, federation, partitioning, etc.
• 3+ years of experience with business intelligence solutions such as Snowflake, Pentaho, Looker, etc.
• 3+ years application development experience in either Python or C#
• 1+ years of experience with cloud data products, pipelines & solutions such as BigQuery, Firehose/Glue/Kineses, BigTable/Spanner, Composer / Airflow, Cloud Run, etc..
• Knowledge and experience of basic database maintenance and administration techniques such as query plan analysis, index tuning, bulk operations, transaction isolation levels, deadlock tracing, replication, etc.
• Knowledge of Django, n/j/Hibernate, Entity Framework or other ORM’s, and any other RDBMS or NoSQL databases would be a plus
• Positive attitude, reliable, self-motivated, team player with excellent communication skills and a solution-seeking mindset
• Comfortable working as part of a distributed team

Experience with music streaming, audio technologies, AI/ML on GCP, or previous roles in the music or financial industries are all great bonuses to bring to the role.

The Beatport Group Culture 

At Beatport Group, creativity and community are at the forefront of everything we do. Our company is a hub of innovation, driven by a commitment to authenticity and a deep understanding of the music landscape. Our culture is built on the values of D.A.N.C.E (Demand Diversity, Accountability to our communities, Nurturing our ecosystem, Community first, always, and Evolution of our mission). We promote inclusiveness, innovative thinking, and thoughtful contributions, ensuring that we not only serve but also evolve with the diverse global DJ & music producer market. 

How to apply 

Please apply with your resume and any relevant portfolio links by clicking the "apply" link 

Benefits 

We offer a responsible and exciting proposal with an international range. The position is within a highly motivated team with a positive working climate, allowing you to express your talent fully. In addition, we offer appropriate remuneration and very good development opportunities within a dynamically growing enterprise. Beyond this, the position provides an intensive integration into the international music scene.

• Remote working from the Pacific North West
• Participation in company's annual bonus pool program
• A professional environment with room for creativity and fun 
• VIP Access to select music events & Livestream
• Focus Days
• Flexible PTO
• Health, dental, and vision insurance (varies by country)
• + more

Equal Employment Opportunity 

The Beatport Group strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. 

Hiring Practices 

This job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees (or contractors) within this classification. It is not intended to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The Beatport Group’s recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. The Beatport Group may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, Internet recruiting, job fairs and college recruiting. The Beatport Group does not accept speculative CV's from employment agencies unless specifically requested by the Talent Team.