Senior Data Engineer
Core
Design and own the data infrastructure powering ad delivery, audience analytics, identity resolution, and campaign measurement at scale for a large-scale streaming ad business.
Role type
Senior IC data engineer (ad tech platform)
Builds
Real-time and event-driven data flows, complex ETL/ELT pipelines, and optimized data models for ad event and identity data.
Domain
Digital advertising, connected TV, streaming media, programmatic advertising
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Pipeline architecture, data modeling, large-scale data systems, Python, AWS data services, real-time/event-driven architectures, data quality frameworks, data governance
Preferred skills
Scala, CI/CD for data pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, dbt, analytics engineering patterns, digital advertising domain knowledge
Technologies
Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Snowflake, Kafka, Kinesis, AWS (Glue, Lambda, S3, API Gateway), Airflow, Astronomer, Datadog
Responsibilities
Architect and build complex ETL/ELT pipelines; Design and optimize data models in Databricks and Snowflake; Build and operate real-time data flows using Kafka and AWS services; Build and maintain data quality frameworks and alerting pipelines; Mentor mid-level and junior engineers; Partner with data analysts and ML teams to translate requirements into data products
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with technical leadership
