Data Engineer

About Ancestry

When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person’s story is important. Ancestry®, the global leader in family history, connects everyone with their past so they can discover, preserve, and share their unique family stories. With our unparalleled collection of more than 65 billion records, over 3.5 million subscribers, and over 27 million people in our growing DNA network, customers can discover their family story and gain a new level of understanding about their lives.

Over the past 40 years, we’ve built trusted relationships with millions of people who have chosen us as the platform for discovering, preserving, and sharing the most important information about themselves and their families.

We are committed to a location flexible work approach, allowing you to choose to work in the nearest office, from your home, or a hybrid of both (subject to location restrictions and roles that are required to be in the office). We will continue to hire and promote beyond the boundaries of our office locations to enable broadened possibilities for employee diversity.

We work every day to foster a work environment that is inclusive and diverse, where our people can be themselves. Every idea and perspective is valued so that our products and services reflect the global and diverse clients we serve.

We encourage applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants. Passionate about dedicating your work to enriching people’s lives? Join the curious.

We are looking for a talented Software Engineer to join our team. This is an opportunity to work with unique, large data sets and impact the big data footprint  will work closely with Business Intelligence, Data Infrastructure, and Data Services teams in developing and maturing our data systems and architecture.

• Be a critical part of the data platform team, responsible for scaling and validating the data platform to meet Ancestry’s data growth.
• Develop, deploy, and support real-time automated system streaming to streamline data lifecycle management.
• Deploy Infrastructure as Code to lay down the infrastructure that the data pipelines utilize.

• Experience in Java and a framework such as Spring Boot with 3+ years of experience in an enterprise environment.
• B.S. degree in Computer Science or related field. Experience in Big Data ecosystems, including Spark and Kafka.
• Proficiency in database technologies MySQL (Aurora), Redshift, or equivalent.
• Experience with Terraform, Cloud Formation, or other infrastructure as code tools.
• RESTful web service development.
• Good familiarity with AWS AI tools.
• Experience with AWS Cloud automated deployments.

As a signatory of the Parity Pledge in Support of Women and the Parity Pledge in Support of People of Color, Ancestry values pay transparency and pay equity. The base salary range for this position is $94,610.00 – $, with eligibility for bonus, equity and comprehensive benefits including health, dental, and vision. The actual salary will vary by geographic region and job experience.

We will share detailed compensation data for a specific location during the recruiting process.

Ancestry is an Equal Opportunity Employer that makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. In addition, Ancestry will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

All job offers are contingent on a background check screen that complies with applicable law. For candidates in San Francisco, CA, pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Ancestry will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.