Principal Software Engineer
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$ 195000 - 230000
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About Cardlytics Bridg
Cardlytics (NASDAQ: CDLX) is the industry-leading purchase intelligence and incentives platform. We make commerce smarter and more rewarding for everyone by helping businesses attract understand and incentivize consumers through their banks digital reward programs. Remember that time you got cash back on a cup of coffee through your banking app That was us!
Bridg a division of Cardlytics is an enterprise data and audience platform that powers the growth of Retail Media. Using our exclusive offline identity resolution capabilities along with clients point of sale (POS) data we help Retailers significantly expand their 1st party data (identifying unknown customers and enriching the understanding of loyalty members) ensure reporting transparency and create new monetization opportunities working with their Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) partners. CPG brands and advertisers in turn gain access to verified shopper data across loyalty & non-loyalty customers that powers advanced insights precision targeting and closed loop measurement. Join us at the cutting edge as we transform how companies connect with their customers through data.
About the Team
At Bridg you will be solving complex problems in a business that celebrates innovation and values your contributions. Our platform blends microservices with a massive data pipeline ingesting and transforming tens of billions of point-of-sale transactions from top retailers. Youll work alongside cross-functional teams to deliver clean trusted data and actionable consumer insights waking up each day excited to experiment with cutting-edge tools cloud services and modern software practices.
About the Position
Bridg is seeking a Principal Engineer who will be designing and implementing a highly scalable data integration and transformation platform processing a high volume of data under a defined SLA. You will be creating and building the platform that includes ingestion and transformation of data data governance machine learning analytics and consumer insights.
This Principal Engineer position reports to the Head of Engineering.
Responsibilities
Design and implement data processing in Snowflake built for high performance and scale.
Implement robust ETL pipelines in Python (and/or Java) with full test coverage.
Author SQL and Snowflake stored procedures optimized for concurrency and cost.
Automate infrastructure with Terraform and codify CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins GitHub Actions).
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers in design reviews code reviews and architectural patterns.
Partner closely with data scientists to productionize ML models.
Evangelize engineering best practices (Agile ceremonies retrospectives documentation).
Minimum Qualifications
BA/BS in Computer Science Engineering or a related field
5 years building high-performance scalable Big Data systems
3 years designing and operating production workloads in Snowflake
Strong proficiency in Python and SQL including optimization techniques
Hands-on AWS experience (EC2 S3 Lambda EMR RDS Redshift)
Excellent communication skills with a history of mentoring engineers and influencing cross-functional stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications
MS in Computer Science Engineering or a related field
Experience with streaming frameworks (AWS Kinesis Kafka Spark Streaming Flink)
Familiarity with search and analytics engines (Elasticsearch OpenSearch)
Expertise in ETL workflow management
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and container orchestration (EKS ECS Kubernetes)
Strong grasp of data governance cataloging and metadata management
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 partner first
Act with urgency and focus
Integrity with our partners and data
Accountability even when challenged
Empowerment over hierarchy
Growth over comfort
Compensation
At Cardlytics salary ranges are determined based on factors such as role level and location. Individual compensation may be determined by relevant skills experience education training and other role-specific criteria. This salary range will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of the aforementioned base salary range provided below does not include bonuses and additional benefits.
The annual US base salary range for this role is:
Champaign: $180000 - $215000
LA: $195000 - $230000
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!)
Complimentary Calm app subscriptions to support employee mental health
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 best-in-class 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.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
