Web Analytics Engineer

Do you love data? Want to leave your mark on a Fortune 500 company as part of a fast-paced, rapidly expanding team dedicated toward charting out the future of news? WaPo Labs is hiring a Web Analytics Engineer to help quench our ever-growing thirst for online data. This person will play a key role in expanding our reporting capabilities across a variety of groundbreaking, cross-platform products.

WaPo Labs is a technology-focused product team that's part of The Washington Post Company, a Fortune 500 Company that includes print, web and education companies across the country. Our mission is to independently produce innovative web products that can change the conversation about the future of news in a digital world. In late September 2011, we launched The Washington Post Social Reader and it's already grown to over 8 million users, but that's not all we're doing. From mobile apps to coupon and deal transaction sites to web properties, we're generating billions of log records. We have lots of fun data challenges that we're looking for someone to help tackle.

This position will focus on creating a solid, scalable data platform on which all of our product reporting will be based. How you go about it is up to you. From table layout to platform, everything is negotiable, and you'll be free to experiment with all the latest in data collection and reporting technology. This isn't about writing ETL and QA jobs; it's about taking disparate data sources and merging them together to form cohesive stories about our 7 million plus users. If you're a creative problem solver and data junkie, we'd love to hear from you.

The Role:

• Build processes capable of transforming URL-level data into report-ready datasets
• Seek out new sources of data from third-party providers and integrate them with existing assets
• Explore, test, and implement the latest technologies and techniques for turning big data into manageable sets for reporting

• Experience working with large (million row plus) datasets
• Passion for learning about social media and technology
• Expert-level SQL skills honed in an analytics-centric environment
• Preferred: Bachelors degree in related field (e.g. Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Econometrics, Operations Research)
• Hadoop/Hive and Amazon AWS experience a big plus
• Python and bash scripting experience a plus
• BI tool experience (e.g. Tableau, Pentaho, Microstrategy) a nice to have