Yelp, Inc.

Entry Level Data Back-end Engineer (Remote, Canada)

Job Locations CA-Remote-Remote | CA-ON-Toronto | CA-BC-Vancouver | CA-AB-Calgary | CA-QC-Montreal
ID 2025-13542
Category
Engineering & Product
Position Type
Regular (Full-Time)

Summary

Yelp engineering culture is driven by our values: we’re a cooperative team that values individual authenticity and encourages creative solutions to problems. All new engineers deploy working code their first week, and we strive to broaden individual impact with support from managers, mentors, and teams. At the end of the day, we’re all about helping our users, growing as engineers, and having fun in a collaborative environment.

 

Are you curious about exploring data at an enormous scale and finding innovative ways to collect it, curate it, and make it easily accessible for others to use?


At Yelp, our datasets contain billions of interactions between users and local businesses around the globe. This data helps us make large scale business decisions that influence Yelp’s product roadmap and power our machine learning models. If you are looking to deepen your experience and excited about making an impact with large-scale data, we’d love to have you join us!


The Marketplace Data Observability team is responsible for managing, governing, and monitoring all of Yelp’s Ads data to protect our revenue stream and to support offline analysis (human and ML) that aids in making long term company decisions. We build tools that help us better understand our data quality, and we strive to uncover data issues before they impact our stakeholders.


As a Data Backend Engineer on this team, you will be responsible for building elegant and scalable data marts and products that serve critical, up-to-date, structured information to support different types of analytics within Yelp. As a core contributor to our growing data modeling and data warehousing engineering efforts, you will help design and own mission-critical data flow pipelines and datastores to enable decisions ,including effective A/B testing, and company investments.

 

This opportunity is fully remote and does not require you to be located in any particular area in Canada. We welcome applicants from throughout Canada. We’d love to have you apply, even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp, we’re looking for great people, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.

What you'll do:

  • Build systems that can effectively store and crunch terabytes of data.
  • Assist in designing data models for efficient data storage, retrieval, ML training, and reporting.
  • Create and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models using industry-standard modeling tools.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including ML engineers, data analysts, business analysts, and data scientists, to understand data requirements and translate them into effective data models.
  • Participate in data integration efforts, including ETL processes and data migration.
  • Stay up-to-date with industry best practices, emerging technologies, and trends related to data warehousing.
  • Take part in on-call rotation, with support from your teammates.

What it takes to succeed:

  • Experience writing code in a modern object-oriented programming language (e.g., Python, Java, or C++)
  • Experience in building and deploying live software services in production.
  • Keen interest in building and operating high performing, highly available and scalable data systems.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
  • Ability to communicate effectively to technical and non-technical cohorts alike across multiple teams and help others succeed.

What you'll get:

  • Compensation range is $85,000-122,000 annually. Depending on your role and level, you may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits.
  • This opportunity has the option to be fully remote in all locations across Canada.
  • You can find more information about Yelp's five star benefits here!

Closing

At Yelp, we believe that diversity is an expression of all the unique characteristics that make us human: race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, and education — and those are just a few. We recognize that diverse backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our teams and our product. The foundation of our diversity efforts are closely tied to our core values, which include “Playing Well With Others” and “Authenticity.”

 

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other protected status.

 

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations-recruiting@yelp.com or 1-415-969-8488.

 

Note: Yelp does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to any recruiting alias or employee. Yelp is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

 

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