Interesting Data Gigs # 94: Data Engineer role at Shopify

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Hi Data Geek. Today I wanted to write (again) about why you should join Shopify as a Data Engineer.

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Back to business

Want to be part of the global phenomenon called Ecommerce? Get a job at Shopify as a Data Engineer

As simple as that: Shopify is helping millions of companies and people to build their entrepreneurship journey with a seamless, easy to use and start ecommerce platform built for your organization at every step of the way. From the incredible hand-made leather bags seller to a juggernaut of the fitness industry like Gymshark.

Some ideas to stand out?

• Read the entire description there: You will see something like Start Schema Data modeling, Dimenional Data Modeling, GCP, dbt, Spark and more good stuff. IDEA: Visit Rittman Analytics blog and think in a way how you could bring to the table

• Read its Engineering blog posts related to Data. There are lot of great writeups there that you will help you understand even better how the Data team works at Shopify. My favorite ones? This one about the Real Time Prediction platform inside Shopify, or this one about the difficulties about building Data models for Shopify’s Tax Insights Feature.

Other resources to check out:

• This video from Hussein Nasser called “How Shopify’s engineering improved database writes by 50% with ULID” is incredible. Why? Because Hussein explained brilliantly why Data modeling is critical in a company like Shopify, and this tell you why they put a big emphasis on this interview process. BTW, his Data Engineering course is amazing

• This entire YouTube playlist just focused on these topics

• and finally this post from Rudderstack called “Why Shopify will increasingly require data engineering expertise”.

Good luck with your job application

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