Staff Data Engineer, Marketing Technology
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30+ days ago
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Job Summary
Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes.
Thumbtack is the one app you need to take care of and improve your home from personalized guidance to AI tools and a best-in-class hiring experience. Every day in every county of the U.S. people turn to Thumbtack to complete urgent repairs seasonal maintenance and bigger improvements. We help homeowners know which projects to do when to do them and who to hire from our growing community of 300000 local service businesses. If making an impact inspires you join us. Imagine what well build together.
About the Marketing Tech Team
Marketing Tech is a critical team at Thumbtack overseeing and optimizing millions of marketing spend and is directly responsible for driving our companys top line revenue growth. As part of this team youd get to work on a wide range of Marketing lanes such as paid (SEM Social Streaming Media etc) as well as organic (SEO Engagement and Lifecycle Marketing etc) and have an outsized impact on our broader marketing efforts.
The Challenge
Thumbtack is relatively early in the journey of building out a world-class Marketing Tech stack. This role reports to the Embedded Data Engineering team but works day-to-day with the Marketing Tech engineering team with a small sub-team of two other Data Engineers. Youll work collaboratively to develop and build the vision of incorporating data through all aspects of marketing at Thumbtack designed with our cross--functional team. Thumbtack fosters a very collaborative culture of builders and as such youd help set the data architecture be hands on in building our datasets and mentor engineers as we go.
What youll do
- Collaboratively refine and evangelize a comprehensive framework for integrating data-thinking into the software development lifecycle for marketing
- Design architect and maintain core marketing datasets data marts and feature stores that support a blend of mature products and features with a rapidly evolving product line in partnership with analytics data science and machine learning
- Integrate with teams consisting of product engineers analysts data scientists machine learning engineers throughout marketing to understand their data needs and help design datasets with the same engineering rigor as any other software we design
- Drive data quality and best practices across marketing and business areas
- Help build the next generation of marketing data products at Thumbtack based on real-time data products on top of Apache Kafka
In order to be successful you must bring
- 8 years of experience designing building and scaling data systemsspanning pipelines warehouses and analytical data products that drive measurable business impact.
- Proven technical leadership in architecting and evolving complex data ecosystems including ownership of data models transformation frameworks and integrations across multiple data domains; advanced proficiency in SQL and Python.
- Deep experience with modern data stacks including cloud-native warehouses (e.g. BigQuery or Snowflake) orchestration tools (Airflow or equivalent) and transformation frameworks (dbt or similar).
- Strong system design and architecture mindset able to reason about scalability cost and performance trade-offs and define long-term data strategy.
- Exceptional collaboration and influence skills partnering effectively with Marketing Engineering Analytics and Data Science to translate business goals into robust production-grade data systems.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability balancing hands-on technical execution with the ability to mentor others raise standards and drive organization-wide improvements in data quality and reliability.
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Thumbtack embraces diversity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex race color age pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity or expression religion national origin ancestry citizenship marital status military or veteran status genetic information disability status or any other characteristic protected by federal provincial state or local law. We also will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with applicable law.
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Computer Science
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Python
- VMware
- C/C++
- Go
- System Architecture
- gRPC
- OS Kernels
- Perl
- Distributed Systems
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