Thumbtack is hiring a Data Engineer to integrate data-thinking into the software development lifecycle and build the core datasets that power analytics, data science, and machine learning. You'll work across teams to understand data needs and drive quality and best practices, helping millions of people confidently care for their homes.
What You'll Do
- Collaboratively refine and evangelize a 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 in partnership with analytics, data science, and machine learning.
- Integrate with teams to understand their data needs and help design datasets with engineering rigor.
- Drive data quality and best practices across different business areas.
- Help build the next generation of data products, including real-time data products on top of Apache Kafka.
What We're Looking For
- 2 or more years of experience designing and building data sets and warehouses.
- Excellent ability to understand and collaborate with stakeholders in other functions, especially Analytics, and identify opportunities for process improvements.
- Experience using SQL for analytics/reporting/business intelligence and for building SQL- and Python-based transforms inside an ETL pipeline.
- Experience designing, architecting, and maintaining datasets that integrate data from multiple sources, including production databases, clickstream data, and external APIs.
- Familiarity building with a modern data stack based on a cloud-native data warehouse (e.g., BigQuery, dbt, Apache Airflow).
- Strong sense of ownership and pride in your work, from ideation and requirements-gathering to project completion and maintenance.
Technical Stack
- BigQuery, dbt, Apache Airflow, Apache Kafka, SQL, Python
Team & Environment
You will join a centralized Data Engineering team working closely with engineers, analysts, data scientists, and machine learning engineers.
Benefits & Compensation
- For candidates in the San Francisco / Bay Area, San Jose, New York City, or Seattle metros: $169,600 - $219,500.
- For candidates in the Austin, TX or Washington DC metros or in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, or Washington states: $152,700 - $197,600.
- For candidates in all other US locations: $144,200 - $186,600.
Work Mode
This is a remote position open to candidates across the United States.
Thumbtack is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and does 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 law.
