Staff Data Engineer, Marketing Technology

November 6

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B2C • Marketplace • Home Services

Thumbtack is a platform that connects people with local professionals offering various services such as home improvement, repair, and cleaning. Users can search for specific services like house cleaning, handyman work, electrical and wiring repair, and more, getting access to trusted professionals with reviews and cost estimates. The platform is designed to make finding, hiring, and working with professionals simple and efficient, with the convenience of managing everything from one app. It serves millions of people across the U. S. , providing a wide range of services including landscaping, event planning, and more.

1001 - 5000 employees

👥 B2C

🏪 Marketplace

📋 Description

• Collaboratively refine and evangelize a comprehensive framework for integrating data-thinking into the software development lifecycle for marketing • Design, architect, and maintain core marketing datasets, data marts, and feature stores that support a blend of mature products and features with a rapidly evolving product line, in partnership with analytics, data science, and machine learning • Integrate with teams consisting of product engineers, analysts, data scientists, machine learning engineers throughout marketing to understand their data needs, and help design datasets with the same engineering rigor as any other software we design • Drive data quality and best practices across marketing and business areas • Help build the next generation of marketing data products at Thumbtack, based on real-time data products on top of Apache Kafka

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience designing, building, and scaling data systems—spanning pipelines, warehouses, and analytical data products that drive measurable business impact. • Proven technical leadership in architecting and evolving complex data ecosystems, including ownership of data models, transformation frameworks, and integrations across multiple data domains; advanced proficiency in SQL and Python. • Deep experience with modern data stacks, including cloud-native warehouses (e.g., BigQuery or Snowflake), orchestration tools (Airflow or equivalent), and transformation frameworks (dbt or similar). • Strong system design and architecture mindset, able to reason about scalability, cost, and performance trade-offs, and define long-term data strategy. • Exceptional collaboration and influence skills, partnering effectively with Marketing Engineering, Analytics, and Data Science to translate business goals into robust, production-grade data systems. • Strong sense of ownership and accountability, balancing hands-on technical execution with the ability to mentor others, raise standards, and drive organization-wide improvements in data quality and reliability.

🏖️ Benefits

• Thumbtack embraces diversity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do 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 federal, provincial, state, or local law. We also will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable law. • Thumbtack is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability during any part of the application process, please contact: recruitingops@thumbtack.com.