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Samba TV

Delivers TV audience measurement and insights

Lead Data Engineer

Data EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNew York, NY, USA$155k - $180k /yrIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience in data analytics or data engineering, owning pipelines from raw data collection through data delivery and reporting.
  • Strong SQL skills, including window functions, complex joins, stored procedures, and performance tuning.
  • Hands-on experience with Azure cloud services or equivalent, such as Synapse Analytics, Data Factory, and Blob Storage.
  • Experience managing or mentoring junior analysts or engineers.
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience in ad tech, media intelligence, or programmatic advertising, including DSPs, SSPs, or audience data.
  • Familiarity with Salesforce as a revenue source of truth.
  • Experience working with international teams across multiple time zones.
  • Prior exposure to Microsoft Fabric or awareness of the Azure/Fabric roadmap.

Responsibilities

  • Own and maintain the Azure-based data infrastructure, including data ingestion, transformation, and delivery.
  • Oversee ingestion of more than 100 upstream raw data sources, including Salesforce, DSPs, and ad platforms, into the data warehouse.
  • Manage data transformation pipelines and implement systems design, including writing complex SQL and Python queries, stored procedures, and pipeline logic.
  • Implement data governance best practices and champion them across the organization.
  • Ensure data quality, pipeline reliability, and documentation standards across the team.
  • Translate business questions from stakeholders into data models and reporting solutions.
  • Support revenue analytics, including advertiser performance, DSP reporting, and product-level breakdowns.
  • Own ad hoc analysis and deep dives as needed.
  • Collaborate across Sales, Sales Support, Finance, Marketing, and Product to build and maintain a platform serving their needs.
  • Manage and mentor a team of BI analysts across the globe, supporting their growth and day-to-day execution.
  • Triage and prioritize incoming data requests alongside the Director of BI.
  • Set and uphold standards for data governance, code quality, documentation, and project delivery.
  • Serve as the subject matter expert for the data engineering infrastructure.

About the Company

Samba TV

Delivers TV audience measurement and insights

Samba TV collects and analyzes TV viewing data to help advertisers, broadcasters, and content creators understand what people watch. It embeds its technology in about 35 million smart TVs across 20 brands, creating a large viewership database and a household identity graph. The system works by using a proprietary multi-source panel from participating TVs to gather viewing activity, then turning that data into insights and analytics that clients can use to plan ads, optimize content, and measure performance. What sets Samba TV apart is the size and scope of its data: it claims the largest end-to-end viewership dataset and identity graph in the industry, with a panel hundreds of times larger than typical measurements and broad brand partnerships, while offering privacy controls for viewers who opt in or out. The company aims to provide data-driven, actionable insights to improve advertising effectiveness and content delivery across the global smart TV market.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$75.7M
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2008

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