StackAdapt · 3 hours ago
Senior Big Data Engineer & Database Administrator
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
CA$100K/yr - CA$125K/yrStackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. The Senior Big Data Engineer & Database Administrator will be responsible for operational database administration duties, data engineering, and data operations within the Data Lake and Enterprise Data Warehouse ecosystem, ensuring a healthy and reliable data environment while designing high-quality data artifacts and ETL solutions.
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Responsibilities
Take the lead on our daily database administration, ensuring our data environment stays healthy and reliable
Partner closely with our Staff EDW Architect to bring new visions to life, designing high-quality data artifacts that follow industry best practices
Turn business needs into smart, reusable ETL solutions that grow alongside our company
Design end-to-end pipelines using your expertise with data models and architecture diagrams to build automated ingestion and transformation pipelines that keep our data moving on schedule
Analyze and produce artifacts such as Source-to-Target Mapping documents
Build pipelines that bring together data from everywhere—whether it’s RDBMS, APIs, JSON, or flat files—creating a seamless flow of information
Define the "Source of Truth" using tools like Python and ETL software to clean, integrate, and transform data into a single, reliable resource the whole company can trust
Provide day-to-day operational support for all the data pipelines by monitoring and investigating alerts, while troubleshooting and remediating production issues in a timely manner
Act as a player-coach for junior and intermediate data engineers and ETL developers as the EDO team grows
Qualification
Required
Deep experience performing ETL design and development via custom coding (SQL, Python, Spark, Java, etc.) as well as using ETL tools (e.g., Coalesce, Informatica, DataStage, Talend) and other tools such as Data Quality tools, Metadata Manager, etc
Extensive hands-on, professional, experience working with Snowflake as a Database Administrator (DBA) and clear understanding of Snowflake's Access Control framework
Comfortable with Cloud-hosted solutions, especially AWS with experience deploying Secrets Manager, KMS, S3, EC2, Linux, Cross-Account Access, etc in a scaled environment
Innate curiosity to fundamentally understand and solve problems. You're not satisfied until you can clearly explain how and why an error occurred, and you are driven to ensure it never happens again!
Understanding of data warehousing architecture fundamentals (e.g., Kimball vs. Inmon, Medallion Architecture, 3NF data models, reference data models, dimensional models, conformed dimensions, SCDs, etc.)
Experience in orchestrating data operations via tools such as Apache Airflow, Cron, Astronomer etc
Benefits
Highly competitive salary
Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
Health benefits from day one of employment
Work from home reimbursements
Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
Robust training and onboarding program
Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
An awesome parental leave program
A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
Our social and team events!
Company
StackAdapt
StackAdapt is a multi-channel programmatic advertising platform that helps maximize digital marketing efforts through data-driven solutions.
Founded in 2014
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$536.61MKey Investors
Teachers’ Venture GrowthSummit Partners
2025-02-04Private Equity· $235M
2022-01-01Private Equity· $300M
2016-01-28Series A· $0.71M
Leadership Team
Vitaly Pecherskiy
CEO and Co-founder
Yang Han
Co-Founder and CTO
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