Contract: Senior Backend Developer

Upwork ($UPWK) is the world’s work marketplace. We serve everyone from one-person startups to large, Fortune 100 enterprises with a powerful, trust-driven platform that enables companies and talent to work together in new ways that unlock their potential.

Last year, more than $3.8 billion of work was done through Upwork by skilled professionals who are gaining more control by finding work they are passionate about and innovating their careers.

This is an engagement through Upwork’s Hybrid Workforce Solutions (HWS) Team. Our Hybrid Workforce Solutions Team is a global group of professionals that support Upwork’s business. Our HWS team members are located all over the world.

Our Data Platform team is seeking a Sr. Backend Developer to build high-quality, scalable, and resilient distributed data warehouse systems that power Upwork’s business analytics infrastructure. In this role, you are responsible for defining, building, running, and improving the architecture strategies, standards, tools, and core principles for our data platforms.

• Develop, automate, and operate the data warehouse management system of the Data Platform.
• Design and develop a performance monitoring and tuning process to improve query efficiency for the users and reduce resource consumption of the platform.
• Work with the Technical Product Manager to identify our users' needs and make enhancements to the data platform as needed.
• Build a comprehensive logging and reporting system that makes data platform activities transparent.
• Manage, operate, and enhance data products and services with production quality codes that are scalable, resilient, and secure.

• Extensive experience in a software engineering role
• Strong SQL, Python, and Javascript skills
• Experience with SQL performance tuning and reporting
• Working knowledge of Data Warehouse (e.g. Snowflake), AWS, and S3
• Real-world experience with Data Warehouse in a production environment
• Experience working in a Linux environment, including shell scripting
• Communicate frequently and effectively in English
• Comfortable working with a globally distributed team with minimum supervision and attention to detail
• Can commit at least 3 hours a day overlapping with the working hours of the Upwork Data Platform team - typically 8AM - 11AM PST

Upwork is proudly committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce. We never discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.