Staff Data Engineer

Role overview Set technical direction for identity and audience data and build the production systems that connect data across sources and partners. This staff-level role spans data modeling, high-volume pipeline engineering, privacy controls, and engineering leadership, in close partnership with data science, product, and engineering. The role is remote in the United States and requires availability during East Coast working hours.

Responsibilities - Design identity data models and matching logic, keeping records accurate, auditable, and current. - Build and maintain partner identifier mappings and measure match quality and coverage. - Develop and operate production pipelines supporting data products at billions-of-rows scale. - Implement consent, opt-out, deletion, and access controls in collaboration with legal and security teams. - Establish quality frameworks, monitoring, and anomaly detection for data pipelines. - Lead design reviews and build-versus-buy decisions, mentor engineers, and create safe workflows and guardrails for AI-assisted development.

Requirements - 8+ years in data engineering or backend data systems, including production pipelines handling high-volume data. - Ad tech or martech experience involving identity and audience data, plus hands-on identity resolution work such as entity resolution or match tables. - Familiarity with common advertising technology identifiers and experience working with advertising data. - Expert SQL and Python skills, deep BigQuery or Snowflake experience, and familiarity with a modern stack such as dbt and Airflow. - A record of setting technical direction across teams and communicating clearly with engineers and business leaders. - Regular use of AI coding tools as part of engineering work.

Nice to have - Data clean room experience or streaming work with Kafka or Pub/Sub. - AI developer tooling experience, such as agent harnesses, MCP servers, evaluations, or CI guardrails. - Experience with privacy and governance controls, including consent, opt-outs, deletion, or state privacy laws.

Benefits and work setup The listed base salary is $175,000–$210,000, depending on experience, with potential performance bonus, equity, 401(k) matching, paid parental leave, flexible time off, remote-work flexibility, and subsidized health benefits. Hiring is limited to specified U.S. states and Washington, DC.