Thumbtack is hiring a Senior Data Engineer responsible for designing and maintaining core marketplace datasets, integrating data-thinking into the software development lifecycle, and building next-generation data products. You will work cross-functionally to understand data needs and ensure high-quality data practices.
What You'll 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 mature and evolving products.
- Integrate with product engineers, analysts, data scientists, and machine learning engineers to understand data needs and design datasets with engineering rigor.
- 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.
What We're Looking For
- 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 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.
Nice to Have
- Experience or strong interest in applying AI-enabled workflows to accelerate development velocity and improve data engineering practices.
Technical Stack
- SQL
- Python
- BigQuery
- dbt
- Apache Airflow
- Apache Kafka
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 living in San Francisco / Bay Area, San Jose, New York City, or Seattle metros: $210,800 - $272,800.
- For candidates living in Austin, TX or Washington DC metros or in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, or Washington states: $189,600 - $245,300.
- For candidates living in all other US locations: $179,400 - $232,100.
Work Mode
This is a remote position open to candidates across the United States.
Thumbtack embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
