Data Scientist

Circle Recruitment
London
3 months ago
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We're looking for a Data Scientist who truly understands how the internet works - not just someone who can analyse data, but someone who knows what's happening under the hood. You'll be joining a Join a pioneering start-up turning raw network data into real insight - mapping how the internet behaves in the wild and using that knowledge to build the next generation of secure, intelligent connectivity.

If you can talk confidently about IPs, DNS, routing, and browsers - and you're just as comfortable writing complex SQL queries or Python scripts - this is the role for you.

About the Role

You'll be working with terabytes of raw network intelligence data - IP addresses, browser metadata, connection logs, and more - to uncover insights that help build out our products in new and detailed ways.

This role sits at the intersection of data science and network research. You'll be responsible for:

  • Working with massive, complex datasets using BigQuery in GCP.
  • Writing efficient SQL and Python to clean, join and analyse data.
  • Understanding how internet traffic, protocols, and data flows translate into meaningful patterns.
  • Collaborating with researchers t...

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