Staff Data Engineer
Marketing Technology
Posted on 7/19/2023
INACTIVE
Thumbtack

1,001-5,000 employees

Modern home management platform
Company Overview
Thumbtack stands out as a technology leader in the home services industry, successfully digitizing a $600 billion+ market by connecting homeowners with a vast network of local service businesses. The company fosters a dynamic, inclusive culture that values integrity and authenticity, and is recognized for its commitment to employee well-being, earning accolades such as "Best Workplaces for Parents" and "Best Workplaces in Technology". With a flexible remote work policy and a leadership team that actively responds to feedback, Thumbtack empowers its employees to excel in their careers while making a tangible impact on the industry.
Consumer Software

Company Stage

Series G

Total Funding

$698.2M

Founded

2008

Headquarters

Benicia, California

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

6%

1 year growth

10%

2 year growth

13%
Locations
Remote in USA
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Desired Skills
Python
Airflow
Data Science
BigQuery
SQL
Apache Kafka
Tableau
Marketing
Looker
Data Analysis
CategoriesNew
Data & Analytics
Growth & Marketing
Requirements
  • 8 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-based transforms inside an ETL pipeline
  • 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
  • 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
  • Learn more about our virtual-first working model here
  • For candidates living in San Francisco / Bay Area, New York City, or Seattle metros, the expected salary range for the role is currently $245,000 - $290,000. 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
  • For candidates living in all other US locations, the expected salary range for this role is currently $210,000 - $250,000. 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
  • #LI-Remote
  • Benefits & Perks
  • Virtual-first working model coupled with in-person events
  • 20+ company-wide holidays including two week-long shutdowns
  • Libraries (collaborative workspaces) in San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Toronto, and Manila
  • Stipends for remote work support, home office set-up and Thumbtack services (North America)
  • WiFi reimbursements
  • Cell phone reimbursements (North America)
  • Employee Assistance Program for mental health and well-being
  • Learn More About Us
  • Life @ Thumbtack Blog
  • How Thumbtack is embracing virtual work
  • Follow us on LinkedIn
  • Meet the pros who inspire us
  • 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: [email protected]
  • If you are a California resident, please review information regarding your rights under California privacy laws contained in Thumbtack's Privacy policy available at https://www.thumbtack.com/privacy/
Responsibilities
  • 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
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in the marketing domain and third party tools like Branch, Fivetran etc
  • Experience building ETL data pipelines in a programming language, like Python or Scala
  • Experience using and/or configuring Business Intelligence tools (Looker, Tableau, Mode, et al)
  • Understanding of database internals and query optimization
  • Experience working with semi-structured or unstructured data in a data lake or similar
  • Experience working in data engineering or a similar discipline at a two-sided marketplace or similar B2C technology company
  • Experience mentoring and coaching data engineers and/or analysts