Job Description:
Rakuten International oversees 7 businesses with over 4,000 employees globally. The brand is recognized for its leadership and innovation in e-commerce, digital content, advertising, entertainment and communications, bringing the joy of discovery and access to more than 1 billion members across the world. Our teams deliver on the company’s mission to delight merchants and customers through innovation, optimism, and teamwork.
Rakuten Viki is a global entertainment streaming platform that specializes in Asian content. Our platform enables millions of viewers to discover and enjoy primetime shows and movies, subtitled in over 150 languages. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, we also have offices in Singapore, Seoul, and Shanghai, ensuring a strong global presence and a deep connection to the heart of Asian entertainment. Our platform is home to a large and loyal community of fans who share a passion for Asian culture and entertainment. Join us in our mission to bridge cultures and connect the world to Asian entertainment. At Rakuten Viki, we offer a chance to be part of a global community that celebrates culture, creativity, and connection.
About the Data Engineering Group:
The Data Platform team manages Viki's core data infrastructure. Right now, we are on a newly built unified Data Lakehouse, so teams can build data products on top of it. Our job is to turn raw user behavior and monetization data into clean tables using tools of the trade like dbt, Airflow. We are in the middle of a major build phase to make setup faster, cost-effective, and ready for ML models and advanced self serve analytics use cases. The team manages the infrastructure, the code, the production setup, the automation within our workflows and everything else related to it.
Position Overview:
Reporting to the Director, Platform Engineering, we are in search of a Manager, Data Engineering to lead the development of our next-generation data ecosystem. The ideal candidate is someone who has been a hands-on builder, who can lead a team of talented engineers through our platform evolution, enforce the engineering standards, and bridge the gap between complex data architecture and business-critical product needs. They also have a keen eye on continuously improving the way the team works and raising the bar for everyone around.
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Rakuten provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. Rakuten considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.
Five Principles for Success
Our worldwide practices describe specific behaviors that make Rakuten unique and united across the world. We expect Rakuten employees to model these 5 Shugi Principles of Success.
Always improve, Always Advance - Only be satisfied with complete success - Kaizen
Passionately Professional - Take an uncompromising approach to your work and be determined to be the best
Hypothesize - Practice - Validate – Shikumika - Use the Rakuten Cycle to succeed in unknown territory
Maximize Customer Satisfaction - The greatest satisfaction for our teams is seeing their customers smile
Speed!! Speed!! Speed!! - Always be conscious of time - take charge, set clear goals, and engage your team
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