Senior Data Engineer

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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 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 marketplace 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

• 4 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
• Expertise 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 a data warehouse and data marts that seamlessly stitches together data from production databases clickstream data and external APIs to serve multiple stakeholders
• Expertise 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
• Experience or strong interest in applying AI-enabled workflows to accelerate development velocity and improve data engineering practices
• Strong sense of ownership and pride in your work from ideation and requirements-gathering to project completion and maintenance

Expected salary ranges

• For candidates living in Ontario and British Columbia the expected salary range for the role is currently $180200 - $233200.

Actual offered salaries will vary and will be based on various factors such as calibrated job level qualifications skills competencies and proficiency for the role.

Note: Thumbtack uses AI tools to support our resume screening process. However our Recruiting teams expertise and judgment guide hiring decisions.

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