Principal Engineer Databricks Platform

About Cardlytics
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Cardlytics (NASDAQ: CDLX) is the industryleading purchase intelligence and incentives platform. We are a productdriven company that cares about three things: our people our customers and our partners. Together we make commerce more rewarding for everyone by helping businesses attract understand and incentivize consumers through their banks digital channels.

About the Team

At Data Infra our goal is to streamline Cardlytics data consumption across the entire organization. We understand that accessible reliable data underpins informed decisionmaking and innovative problemsolving. By partnering closely with teams we tailor our solutions to fit their specific workflow needs and make strategic investments in our Data Infra platform to ensure swift access to data. Our approach is designed to not only simplify the way teams interact with data but also to accelerate timetoinsight enabling Cardlytics teams to harness the full potential of their data for impactful outcomes.

About the Position
Cardlytics is seeking a Principal Engineer Databricks Platform to join our team reporting to the Director Cloud & Data Infra.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Databricks Platform Engineer to join our growing team. In this role you will be responsible for designing building and maintaining robust data infrastructure solutions on the Databricks Platform. You will leverage your indepth knowledge of Databricks and your experience supporting Data Scientists Data Engineers and Analysts to ensure a highperforming and scalable data environment.

Responsibilities:

• Databricks Platform Infrastructure: Design build and maintain data infrastructure on the Databricks Platform including Spark and Databricks SQL.

• Data Team Enablement: Provide technical expertise and support to Data Scientists Data Engineers and Analysts enabling them to effectively utilize the Databricks platform.

• Performance Optimization: Optimize Databricks workloads for performance scalability and cost efficiency.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Implement and manage infrastructure using IaC tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.

• Security and Governance: Implement and maintain security and governance best practices for the Databricks platform.

• Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Monitor the health and performance of the Databricks infrastructure and troubleshoot and resolve technical issues.

• Best Practices: Develop and document best practices for Databricks platform management.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Extensive handson experience with the Databricks Platform including Delta Lake Spark and Databricks SQL.

• Proven experience in building and maintaining cloudbased data infrastructure preferably on AWS.

• Strong understanding of data warehousing data lake and data engineering concepts.

• Demonstrated experience supporting Data Scientists Data Engineers and Analysts.

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools. Preferably Terraform.

• Experience with data pipelines ETL/ELT processes and data modeling.

• Strong problemsolving and troubleshooting skills.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Technical Environment

We primarily use macOS and Google Workspace (Docs Sheets Slides). While our preferred platform is macOS we support both macOS and Windows. Familiarity with or willingness to work within this environment is required.

Core Values

Our shared values are the driving force behind everything we do. Across all roles we are looking for teammates who embody these values:

• Customer and partnerfirst

• Act with urgency and focus

• Integrity with our partners and data

• Accountability even when challenged

• Empowerment over hierarchy

• Growth over comfort

Benefits and Perks

• Flexible paid time off plus company holidays

• Medical dental and vision insurance begins on your first day

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match plan also includes a student loan debt repayment option

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Educational assistance for continuing education

• Lifestyle Spending Account for physical emotional and financial wellness (like gym memberships home down payments art classes park passes and more!

• Complementary Calm app subscriptions to support employee mental health and wellbeing

As an equal opportunity employer Cardlytics is committed to diversity equity and inclusion. Our people bring our products and organization to life and every unique perspective makes us better. If you can do the job and youre excited about growing with us as we scale our bestinclass advertising platform wed love to hear from you. If you need accommodation in the recruiting process due to a disability please email or inform your recruiter.