Kargo
201 - 500 employees
🤝 B2B
📣 Marketing
B2B • Marketing
Kargo is a mobile advertising company that creates memorable experiences for advertisers by captivating consumer attention with innovative advertising solutions. They offer exclusive omnichannel advertising strategies to leading brands, focusing on performance to deliver incremental brand lift and higher returns on ad spend. Kargo also provides a proprietary platform for publishers that maximizes revenue per impression through unique creative and targeting solutions. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in New York, Kargo emphasizes teamwork and diversity in its inclusive workplace culture.
Staff Data Platform Engineer
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Kargo
201 - 500 employees
🤝 B2B
📣 Marketing
B2B • Marketing
Kargo is a mobile advertising company that creates memorable experiences for advertisers by captivating consumer attention with innovative advertising solutions. They offer exclusive omnichannel advertising strategies to leading brands, focusing on performance to deliver incremental brand lift and higher returns on ad spend. Kargo also provides a proprietary platform for publishers that maximizes revenue per impression through unique creative and targeting solutions. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in New York, Kargo emphasizes teamwork and diversity in its inclusive workplace culture.
📋 Description
• Build the data control plane to govern schemas, lineage, ownership, freshness commitments, quality, and access • Build libraries, SDKs, templates, data-specific CI/CD, and a supported near-real-time pattern for standing up data products • Build the enforcement layer for data standards, including a schema registry, contract validator, CI step, and automated certification • Make data products observable by default through freshness, volume, schema conformance, and quality instrumentation • Emit monitoring data with ownership and lineage metadata to enable AI-assisted triage • Set the platform’s architecture, roadmap, and build-versus-buy direction • Run design reviews, incorporate producer and consumer team needs, and keep the platform modular for contributions • Work directly with the Sr. Director of Data Engineering as the founding Data Platform engineer • Grow the Data Platform team as its scope expands
🎯 Requirements
• Built loosely coupled production services, APIs, and SDKs in Python used by multiple teams • Built metadata-driven platforms integrating with catalogs and automatically checking lineage, contracts, and quality • Built observability that other teams depend on, with ability to distinguish signal from noise • Ability to drive tool adoption through architecture reviews, mentorship, and clear communication • Strong AWS experience • Strong Terraform experience • Strong Kubernetes experience • Strongly preferred: experience moving from batch to streaming and understanding cost tradeoffs • Strongly preferred: Spark and Iceberg at significant scale, and Snowflake in production • Strongly preferred: ad tech or another domain with high-volume event data and multiple consumers • Strongly preferred: tooling and data structures used by AI agents • Nice to have: experience establishing a platform team’s first-generation capabilities • Nice to have: data catalog, semantic layer, or governance tooling experience
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