Senior Data Engineer, Ads Data – AI Native
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Senior Data Engineer owning Databricks pipelines, metrics, and governance for Life360’s advertising data. Improving performance, cost, reliability, and self-serve insights for teams supporting family safety products.
Responsibilities:
- Enhance, extend, and operate batch and streaming pipelines and Delta Lake tables on Databricks
- Evolve the platform across ingestion, orchestration, storage, and serving as data volume and business needs grow
- Partner with business analysts, ad strategists, and sales teams to turn business questions into durable data and insights products
- Build and maintain dbt models and tests for curated Silver/Gold datasets
- Own the semantic layer and core business metrics
- Manage Databricks and AWS infrastructure as code with Terraform
- Integrate and reconcile data from ad platforms, CRM, partner feeds, and internal systems
- Migrate away from legacy tools and reports
- Implement data quality tests, monitoring, lineage, SLAs, and alerting
- Define data contracts with upstream producers and lead root-cause analysis when data breaks
- Tune Spark and Databricks workloads for performance and cost
- Establish version control, CI/CD, code review, testing, and documentation best practices
- Mentor engineers and help shape the team’s technical roadmap
- Apply data governance, privacy, and access controls across the platform
- Create LLM tools, skills, and agents to improve debugging, development, and system maintenance
- Become the go-to engineer for foundational data models and pipelines within the first year
- Reduce pipeline runtime and compute spend and deliver documented, trusted datasets and metrics
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering building production data platforms at enterprise scale
- Demonstrated ownership of data products and cross-functional collaboration
- Deep, hands-on expertise with Apache Spark, including PySpark and/or Scala, partitioning, shuffle behavior, joins, skew handling, caching, and job tuning
- Deep knowledge of Databricks, including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Jobs/Workflows, Databricks Asset Bundles, Structured Streaming, and SQL Warehouses
- Experience optimizing workloads for performance and cost
- Strong SQL and Python or Scala skills
- Hands-on production experience with dbt, including model design, testing, documentation, and incremental strategies
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and AWS, including S3, IAM, and networking fundamentals
- Experience with orchestration frameworks such as Airflow or Databricks Workflows
- Experience with Git, CI/CD, and reliable, observable pipelines
- Understanding of data modeling, dimensional modeling, star schemas, and medallion architecture
- Experience building semantic layers or metric definitions
- Experience inheriting, refactoring, and improving existing data models and pipelines
- Experience using AI/LLM coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code
- Strong business acumen and excellent communication skills
- Familiarity with GDPR, CCPA, SOX, and BI tools such as Domo, Tableau, or Looker
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Daily professional use of AI coding assistants
- Ability to review, test, and take ownership of AI-generated code
- Ability to stay current with rapidly changing AI tooling
- Advertising, ad tech, or media data experience is preferred
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees)
- Life and disability insurance and supplemental medical and dental plans for Canadian employees
- 401(k) plan with company matching program in the US
- RRSP with DPSP plan for Canadian employees
- Paid parental leave
- Mental Wellness Program & Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well-being
- Flexible PTO
- Companywide holidays throughout the year
- Summer and winter shutdowns
- Learning & Development programs
- Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment
- Free Life360 Platinum Membership and Tile trackers
- Equity compensation in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
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