Senior Data Engineer (Ads)

TL;DR

Senior Data Engineer (Ads): Driving technical vision and strategy for advertising data infrastructure, building and maintaining sophisticated data pipelines, datasets, and analytical tools. Focus on leading cross-functional initiatives to transform advertising products through data-driven insights and mentor fellow engineers to deliver exceptional results.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Salary: $196,000 to $220,500

Company

hirify.global is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform:play video games.

What you will do

• Create and maintain complex, enterprise-scale data pipelines and foundational datasets while defining technical strategy and architectural direction for advertising products.
• Design and build sophisticated ETL processes, data models, and analytical frameworks using SQL, Python, and modern data stack technologies.
• Build and maintain the data infrastructure that powers Ads ML - feature pipelines, label generation workflows, and training data systems that enable our ranking and delivery models.
• Develop data quality frameworks, monitoring systems, automated anomaly detection, and alerting infrastructure that operates at massive scale.
• Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to identify high-impact data infrastructure opportunities, owning design through implementation.

Requirements

• 4+ years of hands-on experience writing production code and architecting data pipelines with high-volume consumer data in advertising technology domains (eg. ad delivery, ranking, targeting, identity).
• 4+ years of direct implementation experience designing, coding, and maintaining complex data models and systems handling structured and unstructured data sources.
• Expert-level coding abilities in SQL, Python, and modern data engineering frameworks with demonstrated ability to write performant, maintainable, and scalable code.
• Digital advertising data engineering expertise with hands-on experience building high-throughput data pipelines for ad serving, conversion tracking, advertising measurement, or integrating and normalizing third-party advertising data from external platforms and partners.
• Proven hands-on experience implementing and debugging data quality audits, monitoring systems, and automated remediation for massive datasets (billions+ rows).
• Strong technical communication abilities to explain complex implementations to stakeholders while thriving in rapidly-evolving technical environments.

Nice to have

• Passion for hirify.global or gaming in general.
• Hands-on integration experience implementing connections with external data sources, APIs, and third-party advertising platforms.
• Experience with modern data storage and processing technologies (BigQuery SQL, Airflow, Dagster, DBT, or similar).
• Experience with data visualization and dashboarding technologies (Looker, Tableau, or similar).
• Experience with designing data architecture to power a variety of use cases, including experimentation.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming.
• We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests.
• hirify.global is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process.