Senior Data Engineer, Ads Data (AI Native)
Core
Design, build, and maintain scalable data infrastructure on Databricks to power ad campaigns, reporting, and sales operations for Life360's 107.7M+ MAU user base.
Role type
Senior IC data engineer (ads data platform)
Builds
Production batch and streaming pipelines, Delta Lake tables, dbt models, and semantic layers for ad performance and revenue metrics.
Domain
Advertising technology, data engineering, cloud infrastructure
Required skills
Apache Spark (PySpark/Scala), Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Structured Streaming), dbt, Terraform, AWS, SQL, Python, data modeling, CI/CD, data governance
Preferred skills
LLM development support, AI/LLM coding assistants, mentoring
Technologies
Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, dbt, Terraform, AWS (S3, IAM), Spark, Airflow, Git
Responsibilities
Optimize Spark/Databricks workloads for performance and cost; build and maintain dbt models for Silver/Gold datasets; integrate data from ad platforms and CRMs; implement data quality monitoring and lineage; manage infrastructure as code; mentor engineers; enhance LLM development support capabilities.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
