About you:\n\n\n* Care deeply about democratizing access to data.  \n\n* Passionate about big data and are excited by seemingly-impossible challenges.\n\n* At least 80% of people who have worked with you put you in the top 10% of the people they have worked with.\n\n* You think life is too short to work with B-players.\n\n* You are entrepreneurial and want to work in a super fact-paced environment where the solutions aren’t already predefined.\n\n* You live in the U.S. or Canada and are comfortable working remotely.\n\n\n\nAbout SafeGraph: \n\n\n\n* SafeGraph is a B2B data company that sells to data scientists and machine learning engineers. \n\n* SafeGraph's goal is to be the place for all information about physical Places\n\n* SafeGraph currently has 20+ people and has raised a $20 million Series A.  CEO previously was founder and CEO of LiveRamp (NYSE:RAMP).\n\n* Company is growing fast, over $10M ARR, and is currently profitable. \n\n* Company is based in San Francisco but about 50% of the team is remote (all in the U.S.). We get the entire company together in the same place every month.\n\n\n\n\nAbout the role:\n\n\n* Core software engineer.\n\n* Reporting to SafeGraph's CTO.\n\n* Work as an individual contributor.  \n\n* Opportunities for future leadership.\n\n\n\n\nRequirements:\n\n\n* You have at least 6 years of relevant work experience.\n\n* Proficiency writing production-quality code, preferably in Scala, Java, or Python.\n\n* Strong familiarity with map/reduce programming models.\n\n* Deep understanding of all things “database” - schema design, optimization, scalability, etc.\n\n* You are authorized to work in the U.S.\n\n* Excellent communication skills.\n\n* You are amazingly entrepreneurial.\n\n* You want to help build a massive company. \n\n\n\nNice to haves:\n\n\n* Experience using Apache Spark to solve production-scale problems.\n\n* Experience with AWS.\n\n* Experience with building ML models from the ground up.\n\n* Experience working with huge data sets.\n\n* Python, Database and Systems Design, Scala, Data Science, Apache Spark, Hadoop MapReduce.\n\n\n