Thumbtack · 2 months ago
Staff Data Engineer, Marketing Technology
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$250K/yr - $323K/yr
8+ years expThumbtack is a company that helps millions of people confidently care for their homes. They are seeking a Staff Data Engineer to oversee and optimize marketing data systems, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive data quality and best practices across marketing efforts.
Home ServicesLocalProfessional ServicesService Industry
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Company
Thumbtack
Thumbtack is a home services website connecting users with local service providers.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$773.2MKey Investors
Qatar Investment AuthoritySequoia CapitalBaillie Gifford
2024-07-31Debt Financing· $75M
2021-06-15Series G· $275M
2019-07-22Series F· $150M
Leadership Team
Marco Zappacosta
Co-founder & CEO
Recent News
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