Principal Data Engineer Ad Serving
Principal Data Engineer Ad Serving
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Job Description
Join Best Buys Ad Serving team to help design build and operate a next-generation machine learningpowered Ad Serving this role youll be at the core of integrating large-scale data pipelines real-time model serving and advanced analytics to deliver optimal high-performance ad experiences.
As a member of the Ad Decisioning team you will work with other engineering teams across the Best Buy marketing ecosystem to create an integrated reliable and scalable system spanning GCP and AWS. Your work will ensure that data flows seamlesslyfrom ingestion transformation and model training to real-time ad delivery decisions.
This role is remote eligible which means you would work virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location.
What Youll Do
Basic Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Whats in it for you
Were committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that support your total well-being and provide help when you need it most.
Our benefits include:
About us
As part of the Best Buy team youll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of lifein our stores online and in customers homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. Were committed to being a great place to work where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.
Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.
Join Best Buys Ad Serving team to help design build and operate a next-generation machine learningpowered Ad Serving this role youll be at the core of integrating large-scale data pipelines real-time model serving and advanced analytics to deliver optimal high-performance ad experiences.
As a member of the Ad Decisioning team you will work with other engineering teams across the Best Buy marketing ecosystem to create an integrated reliable and scalable system spanning GCP and AWS. Your work will ensure that data flows seamlesslyfrom ingestion transformation and model training to real-time ad delivery decisions.
This role is remote eligible which means you would work virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location.
What Youll Do
- Design and implement scalable ETL/ELT pipelines to process large volumes of clickstream behavioral and ad performance data in real time and batch modes.
- Build and maintain integrations between the Ad Server ML models and supporting systems such as UIs analytics platforms and reporting databases.
- Work closely with data scientists to operationalize ML models for real-time ad decisioning and bidding.
- Leverage GCP Big Query Dataflow Pub/Sub AI Platform and AWS Glue Kinesis Lambda SageMaker Athena for data ingestion transformation and model deployment.
- Architect cloud-native data workflows ensuring high availability low latency and fault tolerance.
- Work with the operations team to develop CI/CD pipelines for data pipelines and ML model deployments enabling fully automated testing and releases.
- Participate in on-call rotation and provide operational support for data pipelines and ML-driven ad serving.
- Anticipate and solve data architecture and integration challenges before they impact production.
Basic Qualifications
- 7 years of relevant experience with a Bachelors in Computer Science Data Engineering; or equivalent combination of relevant professional experience and education.
- 7 years of modern development with Java REST services and SQL with some exposure to Spring Boot
- 7 years of experience diagnosing and resolving complex production-grade data and/or model serving issues
- 5 years of hands-on cloud experience in GCP or AWS
- 5 years of experience in designing and managing distributed data systems and pipelines
- 5 years of Ad Tech Experience
- 3 years of Python experience
- Demonstrated experience collaborating with data scientists product managers and operations engineers
- Ability to travel to Richfield MN 1x per quarter
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with high-throughput real-time Ad Serving systems processing thousands of requests per second
- Strong understanding of ad delivery targeting and performance optimization concepts
- Proficiency in data orchestration tools (Apache Airflow Cloud Composer Step Functions)
- Deep familiarity with streaming data frameworks (Apache Beam Kafka Flink Spark Structured Streaming)
- Experience with cloud-native data stores (Big Query DynamoDB Aurora RDS) and caching systems (Redis Memcached)
- Knowledge of distributed systems principlesstate management concurrency messaging and inter-service data consistency
Whats in it for you
Were committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that support your total well-being and provide help when you need it most.
Our benefits include:
- Competitive pay
- Generous employee discount
- Physical and mental well-being support
About us
As part of the Best Buy team youll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of lifein our stores online and in customers homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. Were committed to being a great place to work where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.
Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.
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