Unacademy Hiring For Principal, Data Engineering at Bengaluru, Karnataka Full Time

At Unacademy, we’re reimagining quality education for all.

It’s an audacious, incredibly steep & fulfilling mission that our team is dedicated to achieving. Unacademy helps more than 62 million students to get access to top-quality education. We enable them to achieve their goals and get ahead in life. India being home to 19% of the world’s youth population, we believe we’ve only just begun. And we’d like your help.

We’re building a strong, diverse team of curious, creative people who want to find a purpose in their work and support each other in the process. If that sounds like you, come join us on this journey as we democratize education for all.

Here’s the elevator pitch:

• 62 million students learning on the platform to achieve their academic goals across 50 exam categories
• 6,00,000 paid subscribers. $220 Million ARR and growing at an unprecedented rate
• 3B Minutes of watch time each month
• 1,70,000 Live Classes conducted every month with concurrent learners exceeding 75,000
• A rapidly growing team of 160 members in tech + product with some of the finest folks in the industry
• An opportunity to craft products that influence education at the grassroots level to improve the lives of millions of students in the far-flung corners of India!

You will

• Drive the design and implementation of data platforms and applications, and report directly to the Director of Data Science.
• Lead a small yet talented and diverse team of 5 to set up the entire data practice at Unacademy
• Centralize data engineering of all products and projects and scale all systems.
• Work closely with analytics teams, help them in their challenges and cover data security aspects as well

Requirements:

• 8+ years of full-time experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, and secure products and platforms.
• Experience in building data platforms for capturing, storing, and processing data at a high scale.
• Experience with Big Data technologies like Hadoop, Hive, Presto, Spark, etc.
• Experience with real-time streaming frameworks like Flink, Storm, Spark Streaming, etc
• Excellent with designing large-scale systems and also capable of diving deep into low-level design and coding.
• An incessant problem solver with a data-driven approach.
• Solid ability to build 24*7 systems through monitoring and alerting.
• Experience in Cloud Infrastructure and CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience in distributed databases, REST APIs and design patterns.
• Experience with high-growth startups is a plus.

Benefits:
Life @ Unacademy:
Our mantra of “Learning as a way of life” is not limited to our student users, but extends to our team as well. We drive this with a special allowance for books & an internal library of courses, created by and for Unacademians themselves.

We take care of our people with wellness programs (In-house mental health counsellor, meditation & fitness sessions), fully stocked pantry, game zone, and a top-notch medical plan that covers employees + dependents.