Data Engineer
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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 Data Engineering Team
Thumbtacks Data Engineering team is a centralized team that works closely with engineers analysts data scientists and machine learning engineers to help design and curate data sets originating from internal and third-party sources to meet current and future needs. Over the next year it will continue to build on its prior successes in building a more cohesive data warehouse while starting to work more deeply upstream to build data best practices into the full software development lifecycle (SDLC).
The Challenge
There are several teams all over Thumbtack with hundreds of terabytes of data and unique challenges trying to clean and organize this data to measure their this role you will work with Engineers Data Scientists Managers and others to understand their needs and actively work to build datasets to tackle these challenges .
What youll do
- Collaboratively refine and evangelize a comprehensive framework for integrating data-thinking into the software development lifecycle for product teams
- 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 Thumbtack 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 different business areas
- Help build the next generation data products at Thumbtack based on real-time data products on top of Apache Kafka
In order to be successful you must bring
- 2 or more years of experience designing and building data sets and warehouses
- Excellent ability to understand the needs of and collaborate with stakeholders in other functions especially Analytics and identify opportunities for process improvements across teams
- Experience in SQL for analytics/reporting/business intelligence and also for building SQL- and Python-based transforms inside an ETL pipeline or similar
- Experience designing architecting and maintaining datasets that integrate data from multiple sources including production databases clickstream data and external APIs
- Familiarity building the above with a modern data stack based on a cloud-native data warehouse in our case we use BigQuery dbt and Apache Airflow but a similar stack is fine
- Strong sense of ownership and pride in your work from ideation and requirements-gathering to project completion and maintenance
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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.
Thumbtack is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability during any part of the application process please contact: .
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Key Skills
- Apache Hive
- S3
- Hadoop
- Redshift
- Spark
- AWS
- Apache Pig
- NoSQL
- Big Data
- Data Warehouse
- Kafka
- Scala
About Company
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