Staff Data Engineer, Marketing Technology

Thumbtack
Ontario
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 221,000 - 286,000 annuallyFunction: Marketing & GrowthExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Technical leadership","System design","Collaboration","Influence","Ownership"]

Build and evolve Thumbtack’s marketing data ecosystem by designing and maintaining marketing datasets, data marts, and feature stores. You’ll integrate data-thinking into the software development lifecycle for marketing, drive data quality across marketing and business areas, and partner with analytics, data science, and machine learning teams. This role helps shape a world-class marketing tech stack using real-time data products on Apache Kafka, while mentoring engineers in an early-stage data platform buildout.

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Thumbtack
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Staff Data Engineer, Marketing Technology

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Job Summary

Build and evolve Thumbtack’s marketing data ecosystem by designing and maintaining marketing datasets, data marts, and feature stores. You’ll integrate data-thinking into the software development lifecycle for marketing, drive data quality across marketing and business areas, and partner with analytics, data science, and machine learning teams. This role helps shape a world-class marketing tech stack using real-time data products on Apache Kafka, while mentoring engineers in an early-stage data platform buildout.
Location: Ontario
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Marketing & Growth
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Refine and evangelize a framework for integrating data-thinking into the marketing software development lifecycle.
  • •Design, architect, and maintain marketing datasets, data marts, and feature stores supporting both mature products and rapid iteration.
  • •Partner with product engineers, analysts, data scientists, and machine learning engineers to define datasets that match engineering rigor.
  • •Drive data quality and best practices across marketing and business areas.
  • •Help build next-generation marketing data products, including real-time data products on top of Apache Kafka, and mentor engineers as standards evolve.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 221,000 - 286,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years designing, building, and scaling data systems across pipelines, warehouses, and analytical data products with measurable business impact.
  • •Proven technical leadership architecting and evolving complex data ecosystems, including ownership of data models, transformation frameworks, and cross-domain integrations.
  • •Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python.
  • •Deep experience with modern data stacks, including cloud-native warehouses (e.g., BigQuery or Snowflake), orchestration (e.g., Airflow), and transformation frameworks (e.g., dbt).
  • •Strong system design and architecture mindset to manage scalability, cost, performance trade-offs, and long-term data strategy.
Experience:8+ yearsData systemsData engineeringMarketing technology
Skills:Technical leadershipSystem designCollaborationInfluenceOwnership
Tech Stack:SQLPythonApache KafkaBigQuerySnowflakeAirflowDbt

Company Brief

Thumbtack
Provides an online marketplace connecting local service professionals (home improvement, events, lessons, and more) with customers seeking quotes, reviews, and booking tools to hire vetted contractors and providers.
Industry: Online Marketplaces
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2008
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