A Day in the Life

As a member of the Platform team, you will take ownership of projects and work with large-scale data processing systems. We are seeking a motivated engineer to join the team responsible for AppLovin’s core products which process over 6PB of data and reach 1B users daily. We are responsible for scaling a platform that produces hundreds of billions of unique events consumed trillions of times throughout our geographically distributed data centers every day. The technical stack includes Java, Scala, Spark, Airflow, GCP and working with a variety of databases.  

The Impact You’ll Make

• Design, develop, and maintain large-scale distributed systems
• Collaborate with various engineering teams to meet a wide range of technological challenges
• Influence and inspire team members

Who You Are

• Minimum 2 years of meaningful professional experience
• Have a Bachelor’s and/or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Have used Java or Scala in a professional environment for at least 1 year
• Strong algorithms experience
• Have some experience with big data systems, like Apache Spark, big data processing, big data processing, big data pipelines, HDFS, etc.
• Have a desire to solve large, complex problems. You look beyond the surface to understand root causes so that you can build long-term solutions for the whole ecosystem

Additional Strengths

• Knowledge of Airflow
• Practical experience working with big data systems (Apache Spark, SparkSQL, HDFS)
• Practical experience with broker systems (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc)
• Practical experience working in the cloud (GCP, AWS, etc) or with kubernetes

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