Data Engineer

Are you ready to be a big part of something big?

At carsales, we're all about making buying and selling a great experience. For 25 years we’ve been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow.

When it comes to your career, we want to provide big opportunities to help you make a big impact. But for this to be possible, we strive to feel small. Small enough to quickly change tack, small enough to learn from different departments and small enough to connect authentically with leadership.

Not something you’d expect from one of the country’s biggest tech companies, is it?

And one of the best parts? We give you the autonomy to choose the working location that best suits your lifestyle – Office, Hybrid or Anywhere. 

What’s on offer:

• A place where you can move your career forward, where you’ll be continuously backed to make new ideas happen, and the chance to do work that makes real, significant impact in the world.
• We’re proud to be recognised as one of Australia’s Best Workplaces™ by Great Place to Work®, a Family Friendly Workplace, a WORK180 endorsed employer for women and WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.
• The support of a highly engaged, high-performing team including a leadership team that’s you’ll actually have face time with.
• 22 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, six weeks paid gender affirming care leave.

Job Description

Data Engineers are accountable for enabling carsales teams to realise commercial outcomes through the delivery of effective data transport systems. Key responsibilities include:

• Contributing to the delivery of scalable data architectures
• Collaborating across data disciplines to develop, optimize, and maintain data pipelines and solutions
• Contributing to team discussions & knowledge, and being a team player in delivering scalable data engineering projects
• Building effective working relationships, acting as an SME enabling product analytics and commercial solutions
• Contributing to identifying and delivering improvements in data platforms and services
• Taking personal accountability for outcomes
• Owning the delivery of their allocated initiatives within specified scope, on-time and within-budget

Qualifications

Critical to success in the role is the ability to operate in the liminal space between business, data and technical practice. Experience and skills required are:

• An all-of-business ownership mindset over siloed success, with high levels of personal integrity and accountability
• Ability to understand well-defined engineering problems, and distil and solve them in robust ways
• Experience with software engineering fundamentals (e.g. data structures, software build & testing principles)
• Skilled in designing and building pipelines using cloud services such as AWS EC2, Glue, Lambda, SNS, SQS, IAM, ECS or equivalent
• Demonstrated experience with distributed technologies such as Airflow, HDFS, EMR
• Proficient in two or more programming languages such as Python, Spark, Scala or similar

Additional Information

A few other things we want to let you know about...

carsales is an equal opportunity employer and we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage everyone of all ages, genders and backgrounds to apply. If you’re a candidate with a disability or you’ll need some adjustments to be at your best, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.

We know how important keeping that balance between work/life is and have a range of flexible working options on offer, including part time work. We are open to this conversation during our recruitment process - if you want to know more just ask.

We are a proud Circle Back Initiative Employer which means we are committed to responding to every job applicant.

Successful candidates joining the carsales family are required to undergo a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights on an ongoing basis. 

So come and join our team - because every role is a big role in our plans to go big.