Director of Engineering, Data Platform

3 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

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⛰️ Colorado – Remote

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🏄 California – Remote ⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🐊 Florida – Remote 🥔 Idaho – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote 🎰 Nevada – Remote 🏖️ New Jersey – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote 🌲 Oregon – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote 🚗 Michigan – Remote ❄️ Minnesota – Remote 🏰 Missouri – Remote 🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote ⛷️ Utah – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $360k - $430k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Liftoff Mobile

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Advertising • Mobile • Machine Learning

Liftoff Mobile is a leading platform designed to enhance mobile advertising and growth for businesses. The company specializes in leveraging advanced machine learning solutions through its Cortex platform to improve user acquisition, engagement, and monetization strategies in the mobile ecosystem. Liftoff's services cater to marketers, mobile game developers, and agencies, providing tools for performance marketing, creative ad solutions, and data-driven insights. Their offerings include products like the Vungle Exchange, Creative Studio, and Intelligence solutions, aimed at maximizing earnings and creating impactful ad experiences across mobile applications.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2012

📋 Description

• Define, shape, and clearly communicate our long-term Data engineering strategy, vision, and roadmap • Translate R&D and Product goals into Data engineering group- and team-level goals, working closely with cross-functional leaders. • Work closely with ML and Product stakeholders at Liftoff, ensuring our Data infrastructure meets their needs with a consistently high quality bar. • Balance short-term and long-term velocity, ensuring a steady stream of improvements as your team builds for the long term. • Set the bar for our engineering culture, encouraging the development of best practices, holding teams accountable for slippage, and improving processes. • Provide deep technical feedback on key projects as necessary. • Grow the next generation of data engineers and leaders.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in data/engineering leadership; 3+ leading managers/leads • Proven track record of building and scaling data platforms and leading data engineering teams required. • Excellent technical judgment; able to dive deep, review designs, navigate complex code bases, and give substantive feedback • Deep understanding of state-of-the-art data technologies and relevant SaaS offerings, in particular related to data reliability and quality, observability/monitoring, lineage/catalog, data contracts, and schema evolution. • Experience with managing petabyte-scale event-stream data. • Crisp communication and collaboration skills, particularly async written communication. • Superb management skills and a keen eye for talent. • B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience).

🏖️ Benefits

• Health/vision/dental benefits • Equity