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Windfall Data | Lead Data Scientist, Data Engineer | SF | Full Time | ONSITE or REMOTE (US-based only)

At Windfall, our goal is to determine the net worth of every person in the world. Its a super hard problem with broad applications. We work with hundreds of non-profit organizations across the US to help them better understand and engage their donors. We also work with for-profit companies in a wide array of industries (finance, travel, hospitality & gaming, luxury goods, etc) to help them better understand their clientele and targeting affluent households for net-new acquisition.

Our team is still fairly small so every new hire will have the ability to make a huge impact!

We're looking for:

* An experienced data scientist to lead our team in developing our predictive models. Data and data science are core to our business, so this role will be incredibly influential in the success of the company.

* A seasoned backend/data engineer to help build our data pipeline and other infrastructure.

Roles are onsite in SF, or remote for the right candidate with prior remote work experience.

If you're interested in hearing more, send a message to cory@windfalldata.com

Read more about what we're building here: https://medium.com/windfalldata/


Windfall Data | Lead Data Scientist, Data Engineer | SF | Full Time | ONSITE or REMOTE (US-based only)

At Windfall, our goal is to determine the net worth of every person in the world. Its a super hard problem with broad applications. We work with hundreds of non-profit organizations across the US to help them better understand and engage their donors. We also work with for-profit companies in a wide array of industries (finance, travel, hospitality & gaming, luxury goods, etc) to help them better understand their clientele and targeting affluent households for net-new acquisition.

Our team is still fairly small so every new hire will have the ability to make a huge impact!

We're looking for:

* An experienced data scientist to lead our team in developing our predictive models. Data and data science are core to our business, so this role will be incredibly influential in the success of the company.

* A seasoned backend/data engineer to help build our data pipeline and other infrastructure.

Roles are onsite in SF, or remote (US only) for the right candidate with prior remote work experience.

If you're interested in hearing more, send a message to cory@windfalldata.com

Read more about what we're building here: https://medium.com/windfalldata/


Windfall Data | Lead Data Scientist, Data Engineer | SF | Full Time | ONSITE or REMOTE (US-based only)

At Windfall, our goal is to determine the net worth of every person in the world. Its a super hard problem with broad applications. We work with hundreds of non-profit organizations across the US to help them better understand and engage their donors. We also work with for-profit companies in a wide array of industries (finance, travel, hospitality & gaming, luxury goods, etc) to help them better understand their clientele and targeting affluent households for net-new acquisition.

Our team is still fairly small so every new hire will have the ability to make a huge impact!

We're looking for:

* An experienced data scientist to lead our team in developing our predictive models. Data and data science are core to our business, so this role will be incredibly influential in the success of the company.

* A seasoned backend/data engineer to help build our data pipeline and other infrastructure.

Roles are onsite in SF, or remote for the right candidate with prior remote work experience.

If you're interested in hearing more, send a message to cory@windfalldata.com

Our thoughts on hiring here: https://medium.com/windfalldata/technical-interviewing-at-wi...


Windfall Data | Lead Data Scientist, Data Engineer | SF | Full Time | ONSITE or REMOTE (US-based only)

At Windfall, our goal is to determine the net worth of every person in the world. Its a super hard problem with broad applications. We work with hundreds of non-profit organizations across the US to help them better understand and engage their donors. We also work with for-profit companies in a wide array of industries (finance, travel, hospitality & gaming, luxury goods, etc) to help them better understand their clientele and targeting affluent households for net-new acquisition.

Our team is super small and every new hire will have the ability to make a huge impact!

We're looking for:

* An experienced data scientist to lead our team in developing our predictive models. Data and data science is core to our business, so this role will be incredibly influential in the success of the company.

* A sharp backend/data engineer to help build our data pipeline and other infrastructure.

Roles are onsite in SF, or remote for the right candidate with prior remote work experience.

If you're interested in hearing more, send a message to cory@windfalldata.com


Windfall Data | Sr Data Engineer, Sr Backend Engineer, Data Scientist | SF | ONSITE

At Windfall, our goal is to determine the net worth of every person in the world. Its a super hard problem with broad applications.

Our team is super small and every new hire will have the ability to make a huge impact!

We're looking for a couple of senior backend/data engineers to help build our infrastructure and enhance our data pipeline.

We are also looking for an experience data scientist to help ensure that we're delivering the highest quality data we can provide.

If you're interested, send a message to cory@windfalldata.com


I bet that didn't take N engineers 12 months to build out, either


Cassandra uses G1GC by default.

If it was as simple as tweaking a few GC settings to get 10x improvement pretty sure Datastax would've done it by now.


The problem with making a general purpose DB is you have to have general purpose defaults. The Cassandra defaults are "dont crash anywhere", not "be super fast and low latency". You can definitely do 5x better than the default with some basic jvm tuning.

That said: the IG folks certainly know how to tune JVMs. There are IG (and former IG, I saw rbranson post) folks in this thread that know how to tune the collectors, so assume that the 10x they see is beyond what you'd get from simple tuning.


Not sure you understand that there are different versions of Cassandra and I never mentioned that we used Datastax version. Using G1GC with default settings does not give you anything btw.


2 engineers, 2 weeks because we had to evaluate every change we made with production traffic.


Windfall Data | Data/ML Engineer, Lead Data Scientist | SF | ONSITE | $110k-$160k

At Windfall Data, our goal is to determine the net worth of every person in the world. Its a super hard problem with broad applications.

We're looking for: - experienced data engineers to help build our infrastructure and help us scale - lead/senior data scientists to build a team and take our ML and predictive algorithms to the next level

If you're interested, send a message to cory@windfalldata.com


Windfall Data | Data Engineer, Lead Data Scientist | SF | ONSITE | $110k-$160k

At Windfall Data, our goal is to determine the net worth of every person in the world. Its a super hard problem with broad applications.

We're looking for: - experienced data engineers to help build our infrastructure and help us scale - lead/senior data scientists to build a team and take our ML and predictive algorithms to the next level

If you're interested, send a message to cory@windfalldata.com


Windfall Data | Data Engineer, Lead Data Scientist | SF | ONSITE | $110k-$160k

At Windfall Data, our goal is to determine the net worth of every person in the world. Its a super hard problem with broad applications.

We're looking for: - experienced data engineers to help build our infrastructure and help us scale - lead/senior data scientists to build a team and take our ML and predictive algorithms to the next level

If you're interested, send a message to cory@windfalldata.com


Windfall Data | Full Stack Engineer, Data Engineer, Lead Data Scientist | SF | $110k-$200k, 0.10% - 0.80%

At Windfall Data, our goal is to determine the net worth of every person in the world. Its a super hard problem with broad applications.

We're looking for:

- experienced full stack and data engineers to help build our infrastructure and help us scale

- lead/senior data scientists to build a team and take our ML and predictive algorithms to the next level

If you're interested, send a message to cory@windfalldata.com


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