Software Engineer

Powering Performance Marketplaces in Digital Media

QuinStreet is a pioneer in powering decentralized online marketplaces that match searchers and “research and compare” consumers with brands. We run these virtual- and private-label marketplaces in one of the nation’s largest media networks.

Our industry leading segmentation and AI-driven matching technologies help consumers find better solutions and brands faster. They allow brands to target and reach in-market customer prospects with pinpoint segment-by-segment accuracy, and to pay only for performance results.

Our campaign-results-driven matching decision engines and optimization algorithms are built from over 20 years and billions of dollars of online media experience.

We believe in:

• The direct measurability of digital media.


• Performance marketing. (We pioneered it.)


• The advantages of technology.

We bring all this together to deliver truly great results for consumers and brands in the world’s biggest channel.

Quinstreet Inc. seeks a Software Engineer in Foster City, CA.

Duties: Communicate with and gather technical requirements from Business stakeholders. Act as a contributor on QuinStreet’s Data Pipeline team, wrangling data, building data pipelines, and working closely with technical leads to improve the company’s data pipeline architecture. Maintain legacy applications and create new ETL’s that include the use of Python, PHP and UNIX scripting languages; preparing data for key reporting, analytics, and other applications on an as-needed basis. Monitor and maintain the ETL/pipeline job scheduler (Airflow), notifications, and worker infrastructure components on AWS. Respond to system error notifications; communicate outages in a timely fashion. Analyze data from different sources to identify possible issues and keep the pipeline working properly. Perform peer code reviews. Learn, assess, and apply new technologies (particularly AWS) to improve solutions for Quinstreet’s processing and data streaming requirements. Work within an Agile development process.  Develop, document, and enforce standards, naming conventions, data integrity checks, and overall best practices that are anticipated to applied company-wide. Contribute ideas for continually improving the team's productivity, release quality, and job enjoyment. Perform Adhoc data analysis for trouble shooting and validation. Collaborate with Algorithms and Data Analytics teams.

Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related plus 3 years of experience.  Requires 3 years of experience in: SQL and RDBMSs; Relational modelling; and data engineering including consuming, transforming and loading data into production databases and data warehouses. Additionally, requires 1 year of experience working with Apache Airflow or other pipeline orchestration tools; PHP and Laravel; and Docker and Java. Telecommuting is permitted.

$143,790.00 - $163,790.00 per year. Must also have authority to work permanently in the U.S. Applicants who are interested in this position may apply at jobpostingtoday.com, reference number 95592. 

QuinStreet is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, pregnancy status, sex, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristics protected by law.

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