Data Engineer, Legal
Chicago, IL • Full Time
Meta
Data & Analytics
Data Engineering
Legal
Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta), formerly known as Facebook Inc., builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps and services like Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. To apply, click “Apply to Job” online on this web page.
Data Engineer, Legal Responsibilities
  • Independently design, build and launch new data extraction, transformation and loading processes in production.
  • Mentor others and introduce the team to novel methods, efficient queries, programming tools.
  • Collaborate with a variety of technical and nontechnical stakeholders (including attorneys, engineers, and data scientists) to understand and identify data needs, understand business problems and implement and maintain any logging required.
  • Work with colleagues in data infrastructure to triage and resolve issues and maintain integrity of data pipelines.
  • Keep stakeholders informed of progress and resolution on key issues.
  • Build data expertise and leverage data controls to ensure privacy, security, compliance, data quality, and operations for allocated areas of ownership.
  • Advance Data Engineering best practices within the team.
  • Share and contribute to development of documentation, protocols and procedures, training guides, workflows, etc.
Minimum Qualifications
  • Requires a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related field and 12 months of experience in the job offered or in a related occupation
  • Requires 12 months of experience involving the following:
  • Data engineering
  • SQL, ETL, data modeling, and at least one programming language (e.g., Python, C++, C#, Scala, etc.)
  • Distributed computing (Hive/Hadoop)
  • Using version control systems (e.g. Git/Mercurial)
  • Initiating and driving projects to completion with minimal guidance
  • Conceptualizing and owning the data architecture for multiple large-scale projects while evaluating design and operational cost-benefit tradeoffs within systems
  • Owning existing processes running in production, and optimizing complex code through advanced algorithmic concepts
  • Working with PB scale data
  • and Working cross-functionally and communicating technical content to general audiences
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About Meta
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

$135,142/year to $168,520/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.


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