BI Engineer

We are Outbrain.

Outbrain is a leading technology platform that drives business results by engaging people across the open Internet, reaching over a billion unique users a month around the world.

Outbrain’s technology provides personalization, engagement, and monetization solutions to thousands of digital media properties, including a number of the world’s most prestigious publishers. 

For tens of thousands of advertisers around the world, Outbrain helps attract new customers and grow their businesses, driving measurable results and return on investment.

Job Description

Are you an experienced Business Intelligence Engineer interested in an opportunity to help drive Outbrain performance and develop your A to Z business understanding? Outbrain’s BI department is looking for a highly skilled BI engineer to be part of our growing organization. As a BI engineer at Outbrains, you will have the opportunity to work on some of the world's largest data sets, influence the long-term evolution of our data analytics platform and help build data driven operational workflows to enable the business to be successful in an ever changing business environment.

Key job responsibilities

• Tableau and Looker site administration and operational support for the analytics teams
• Work with analysts to scale value-creating capabilities, including data integrations and transformations, as well as productizing statistical and machine learning BI models.
• Design, build, and optimize the data architecture and extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines to make them accessible for Business Data Analysts, Data Scientists, and business users.
• Drive standards in data reliability, data integrity, documentation and data governance, enabling accurate, consistent, and trustworthy data sets, business intelligence products, and analyses.
• Engage with the analyst community, communicate with analysts to understand critical workflows and data sourcing inefficiencies and advocate best practices
• Work in a genuinely global environment

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or related discipline
• 1+ years of experience as Tableau site administrator 
• 2+ years of experience working with large data sets and complex SQL queries
• 2+ years of relevant experience in a Business Analyst or BI Engineer role
• Excellent communication in English (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Dimensional Models, Datamarts in Traditional Data Warehouses as well as in Big Data / Advanced Analytics domains
• Experience working with cloud database technologies such as Google’s BigQuery
• Experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow
• Proficiency in OOP language - python - is a big advantage
• Experience with Looker and LookerML is a big advantage

We Recommend #LifeAtOutbrain

Outbrain is an equal employment opportunity employer and committed to diversity and inclusion at all stages of recruitment and employment.

Our company culture is welcoming, dynamic, diverse, global, and built on top performance.

Did you know "trust" is one of our core values? We apply this value to our day-to-day by working collaboratively on a global scale. With managers and teammates often sitting in other countries and time zones, we value communication, patience, and open-mindedness to all cultural backgrounds. We encourage all ideas, and everyone gets a seat at the table!

Our team is made up of individuals who are approachable, resourceful, passionate, and proactive. We foster a sense of belonging through our  Employee Resource Groups –employee-led groups in which we debate topics and drive change. From OB Green (environmental), OB WE (women empowerment), OB Good (charitable initiatives) to OB4E (diversity, equity, and inclusion), you’ll be able to share your passions with likeminded people.

Dive into the Outbrain experience via our Instagram account! 

Hungry for more? Have a closer look at #LifeAtOutbrain exploring our company manifesto, Youtube channel , Outbrain Culture blog and social media channels Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.