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Apache Spark is an open-source framework that supports both data streaming and batch processing. The engine interprets multiple programming languages, and its users can harness its power to improve data engineering, data science, and machine learning. With over 1,000 contributing software engineers and developers from hundreds of organizations, it has been leveraged by businesses across all industries to process data of any size.

Recognized as one of the world’s largest data processing clusters, even engineers with just a few years of experience are capable of learning, building, and leveraging the framework. Experienced engineers bring vast knowledge to support various functions, from enhancing processing speed to rebuilding and monitoring data pipelines. The value they add can benefit many facets of an organization.

The job overview

We're looking to hire a new Apache Spark engineer for our team who can help us develop and evolve a large real-time data processing system. As an expert software engineer, your problem-solving and scripting skills will help us manage business requirements to support data scientists. You'll work closely with our system designers and software developers to collaborate on interface development and data pipelines.

Responsibilities of an Apache Spark Engineer

Below are the responsibilities an Apache Spark team member:

  • Design and implement Spark jobs to define, schedule, monitor, and control processes
  • Develop and test algorithms for large-scale machine learning
  • Optimize Spark jobs to maximize speed and scalability while remaining data-use compliant
  • Manage data pipelines and acquisition processes
  • Perform data processing and analysis 
  • Build machine learning models using Spark or MapReduce to visualize and present results
  • Work with other Spark developers and back-end data engineers to design interactive Spark pipelines
  • Develop REST APIs for Spark jobs

Job qualifications for an Apache Spark Engineer

Below are the qualifications for an Apache Spark engineer:

  • Expertise building data and processing pipelines
  • Familiarity with Spark engine syntax modules, including Spark SQL 
  • Familiarity with APIs including RDD, DataFrame, Dataset, and PySpark
  • Fluency in programming languages including Python, Java, and Scala
  • Knowledge of Spark internals and streaming technology (Kafka, KSQL, etc.)
  • Expertise in SQL and big data processing (Hadoop ecosystems, Hive, Impala, Druid, etc.)
  • Familiarity with machine learning algorithms and foundations such as PyTorch
  • Experience with an ETL tool and expertise in managing the post-loading data
  • Expert in one or more distributed file systems, such as HDFS, S3, and Ceph 
  • Familiarity with visualization tools
  • Familiarity with Amazon's AWS for building Apache Spark clusters

A bachelor's degree in data science, software development, and computer science isn't required for Apache Spark jobs. But having a higher certification is highly encouraged (specifically from Cloudera, MapR, or Hadoop).

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    Amar K.
    • 5.0
    • (28 jobs)
    Bengaluru, KA
    Featured Skill Apache Spark
    API Development
    Flask
    Google App Engine
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    Big Data
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    Amazon Web Services
    BigQuery
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  • $150 hourly
    Thomas T.
    • 5.0
    • (12 jobs)
    Los Angeles, CA
    Featured Skill Apache Spark
    Data Management
    Business Intelligence
    API Development
    Amazon Redshift
    Amazon Web Services
    MongoDB
    Data Warehousing
    ETL
    Node.js
    Docker
    AWS Glue
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    SQL
    Python
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    • 5.0
    • (3 jobs)
    Pune, MAHARASHTRA
    Featured Skill Apache Spark
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    Cloud Services
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