Staff Data Engineer – Ads

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Establish the technical vision and ensure design consistency throughout the entire Ads Data Engineering organization.

• Address cross-domain design challenges and assist teams in adopting scalable solutions.

• Collaborate with the Ads DE director and DE managers as a senior technical authority.

• Align technical strategies with broader business objectives.

• Provide mentorship and guidance to data engineers across the organization.

• Facilitate the adoption of AI and emerging tools and technologies among engineers.

• Partner with senior engineers from the data platform and D&I teams.

• Contribute to initiatives that span horizontal and platform-wide efforts.

• Define the characteristics of AI-native data engineering within Ads DE.

• Act as the primary technical representative with Ads Platform Engineering, Ads Data Science, and Product.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 15 years of experience building data foundations, backend systems, or data engineering solutions.

• Familiarity with advertising or ad-tech data.

• Proven experience leading technical direction across organizational boundaries and in multiple roles or companies.

• Experience with significant platform migrations or developing data products from inception to maturity.

• Proficient in designing data as a product with an emphasis on user experience, quality, and measurable outcomes.

• Background in building data privacy and governance frameworks.

• Comprehensive understanding of modern data stacks, including ingestion, processing, storage, and serving.

• Knowledge of ad-tech systems and data flows, particularly in bidding, measurement, or attribution.

• Experience with large-scale distributed data systems such as Spark, Kafka, or columnar databases.

• Awareness of AI and agentic technologies as they relate to data engineering.

• A graduate degree in Computer Science with a focus on data is advantageous.

• Experience in formally mentoring engineers on their technical development is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health Plans

• Mental Health support

• 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match

• Stock Option Program

• Disability Programs

• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts

• Family-forming benefits

• Life and Serious Injury Benefits

• Paid leave of absence programs

• Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off, which can be utilized for vacations, holidays, and sick leave.

• Full-time salaried employees are entitled to flexible time off immediately.