CoStar Realty Information, Inc.
Homes.com - Data Engineer II
CoStar Realty Information, Inc., Arlington, Virginia, United States, 22201
Homes.com - Data Engineer II
Job Description
CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the worlds real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.
We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. Weve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.
Homes.com
Homes.com is already one of the fastest growing real estate portals in the industry, we are driven to be #1. Just ask Brad Bellflower, Chief Change Officer at Apartments.com. After its acquisition in 2014, Apartments.com quickly turned into the most popular place to find a place. Proven success at the highest level and were doing it again with the new Homes.com. Homes.com is a CoStar Group company with 20+ years' experience in leading and growing digital marketplaces. We pride ourselves on continually improving, innovating, and setting the standard for property search and marketing experiences. With Homes.com were building a brand on the cusp of defining the industry. Were looking for big thinkers, brave leaders, and creative advertising wizards ready to influence a new age of homebuying within a tried-and-true, award-winning company.
Learn more about Homes.com (https://www.homes.com/about/) .
This position is located in Arlington, VA, and offers a schedule of 4 days onsite, 1 day remote.
The ideal candidate is an insight-driven analytics engineer who can both design analytical pipelines (SQL, Python, Spark, Databricks) and deploy them in the cloud (Terraform, AWS Lambda, CI/CD, Azure DevOps). This role bridges analytics with modern DevOps practices ensuring that insights are not just developed, but also productionized, automated, and scalable. The candidate should be comfortable mentoring junior analysts, building dashboards, and presenting findings to stakeholders.
Responsibilities
Designing, building, testing and deploying scalable, reusable and maintainable applications that handle substantial amounts of data.
Taking full ownership of your work from development and testing to eventual deployment and support in production.
Collaborating with other engineers, product owners, designers, and leadership.
Becoming a trusted team member in matters of technical architecture, design and code.
Advocating for evolution and improvement - both technical and non-technical - within our teams. Includes new tech, tools and best practices.
Gaining a deep understanding of the CoStar business, including the Analytic products.
Basic Qualifications Bachelors Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university or college, with degree preferably in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field. MSc or PhD is a plus.
A track record of commitment to prior employers
A demonstrable record of accomplishment of building and launching successful products that use terabytes of data
3+ years of data pipeline engineering experience, and/or deep database engineering experience
Experience with Python / other scripting languages to ETL data
Ability to understand the purpose behind a task and proactively improve how it is performed.
Ability to analyze technical requirements and design new architectures, data models and ETL strategies
Hands-on experience with cloud-based relational and non-relational databases
Deliver work products that meet specifications, are free of defects, with excellent performance
Define Architecture and Development best practices
Facilitate discussions among developers to exchange ideas and introduce innovative technologies
Evaluate emerging technologies to find opportunities, trends and best practices that can be used to strengthen CoStars technology platform and development practices
Willingness to take an active role in mentoring other developers
Preferred Skills Performance tuning of database queries (SQL Server or PostgreSQL), database design, monitoring, and analysis
Experience with No-SQL databases (e.g. DynamoDB)
Experience with data pipeline tools (e.g. Glue, Step Functions, Lambda)
Experience using Confluent Kafka
Knowledge and/or experience working with Apache Spark/Databricks/Azure DevOps
Monitoring & dashboard metric management (e.g. CloudWatch, Kibana)
Whats in it for You When you join CoStar Group, youll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed. We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, and tuition reimbursement. Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to): Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
Commuter and parking benefits
401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
Employee stock purchase plan
Paid time off
Tuition reimbursement
On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes
Access to CoStar Groups Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks
We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position. #LI-AV1 CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the worlds real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 37 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable products and services. Weve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry and for our customers. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate. CoStar is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. CoStar is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access www.costargroup.com/careers as a result of your disability. You can request reasonable accommodations by calling 1-855-840-1715 or by sending an email to recruiting@costargroup.com .
Taking full ownership of your work from development and testing to eventual deployment and support in production.
Collaborating with other engineers, product owners, designers, and leadership.
Becoming a trusted team member in matters of technical architecture, design and code.
Advocating for evolution and improvement - both technical and non-technical - within our teams. Includes new tech, tools and best practices.
Gaining a deep understanding of the CoStar business, including the Analytic products.
Basic Qualifications Bachelors Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university or college, with degree preferably in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field. MSc or PhD is a plus.
A track record of commitment to prior employers
A demonstrable record of accomplishment of building and launching successful products that use terabytes of data
3+ years of data pipeline engineering experience, and/or deep database engineering experience
Experience with Python / other scripting languages to ETL data
Ability to understand the purpose behind a task and proactively improve how it is performed.
Ability to analyze technical requirements and design new architectures, data models and ETL strategies
Hands-on experience with cloud-based relational and non-relational databases
Deliver work products that meet specifications, are free of defects, with excellent performance
Define Architecture and Development best practices
Facilitate discussions among developers to exchange ideas and introduce innovative technologies
Evaluate emerging technologies to find opportunities, trends and best practices that can be used to strengthen CoStars technology platform and development practices
Willingness to take an active role in mentoring other developers
Preferred Skills Performance tuning of database queries (SQL Server or PostgreSQL), database design, monitoring, and analysis
Experience with No-SQL databases (e.g. DynamoDB)
Experience with data pipeline tools (e.g. Glue, Step Functions, Lambda)
Experience using Confluent Kafka
Knowledge and/or experience working with Apache Spark/Databricks/Azure DevOps
Monitoring & dashboard metric management (e.g. CloudWatch, Kibana)
Whats in it for You When you join CoStar Group, youll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed. We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, and tuition reimbursement. Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to): Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
Commuter and parking benefits
401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
Employee stock purchase plan
Paid time off
Tuition reimbursement
On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes
Access to CoStar Groups Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks
We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position. #LI-AV1 CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the worlds real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 37 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable products and services. Weve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry and for our customers. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate. CoStar is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. CoStar is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access www.costargroup.com/careers as a result of your disability. You can request reasonable accommodations by calling 1-855-840-1715 or by sending an email to recruiting@costargroup.com .