Data Engineer II

CoStar • Arlington, VA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

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. For over 35 years, CoStar Group has been dedicated to digitizing the world’s real estate, empowering people with properties, insights, and connections to improve their businesses and lives. They continually refine their approach, creating industry standards and driving innovation for customers, employees, and investors. Homes.com, a CoStar Group company with over 20 years of experience, is one of the fastest-growing real estate portals, aiming to be #1 by continually improving and innovating property search and marketing experiences. The company is seeking a Data Engineer to accelerate Homes.com's growth. This role involves building sitewide tracking architecture, feeding data into user-friendly KPI dashboards for site performance and product usage insights, and providing analysis for future growth. The individual will be involved in various aspects of data management, including designing and maintaining automated data infrastructure, delivering Data Engineering and Analytics solutions, and facilitating data access for key company teams. This position is located in Rosslyn, VA, and operates on a hybrid schedule of 4 days onsite and 1 day remote.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required from an accredited, not-for-profit, in-person college/university
• A track record of commitment to prior employers
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in software development, delivering high-quality solutions
• Strength in Data Engineering, with strong proficiency in Python, PySpark, and SQL
• Solid foundation in Object-Oriented Programming principles and best practices
• Demonstrated success in building and launching data-driven products operating at terabyte scale
• Ability to translate technical requirements into robust architecture, data models, and ETL strategies
• Practical experience with cloud-based databases, including both relational and non-relational systems
• Knowledge of business intelligence software (i.e. Power BI or similar tools)
• Ability to retrieve, synthesize, and present critical data in structures that is immediately useful to answering specific ad-hoc questions.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience or familiarity with big data platforms such as Databricks or Snowflake
• Proficiency with cloud platforms, including AWS or Azure
• Experience working with NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB) and object storage systems (e.g., Amazon S3)
• Practical knowledge of event streaming technologies, especially Kafka
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to tackle complex technical challenges
• Experience leveraging AWS compute and container services for scalable solutions

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL processes using Databricks, Data Factory, and other AWS services.
• Implement and optimize Spark jobs, data transformations, and data processing workflows in Databricks.
• Building and deploying AI/ML models: Integrate Machine Learning into data pipelines, leverage Databricks ML and AWS ML to develop predictive models and drive business insights.
• Understand various data domains and be able to translate them through data transformations to suit various business needs
• Oversee automated data infrastructure: Collaborate with software engineering and product teams to streamline data tracking in our products.
• Ability to integrate data from different sources via cross domain data stitch into existing data model
• Develop and maintain secure data warehouses and data lakehouses: Implement data models, data quality checks, and governance practices to ensure reliable and accurate data.
• Hands-on data optimization and query performance
• Liaise with key company teams (DBA, DevOps, SecOps…) for data accessibility and analysis
• Mentor and manage engineers and analysts in the normal execution of their responsibilities.
• Successfully implement software development projects to specification and within scheduled timelines and budget parameters
• Leverage AWS DevOps and CI/CD best practices to automate the deployment, through terraform, and management of data pipelines and infrastructure.

Benefits

• generous compensation and performance-based incentives
• internal training
• tuition reimbursement
• inter-office exchange program
• 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 Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level