The Senior Data Engineer will build scalable data integrations and architect backend systems, providing technical guidance and ensuring best practices in data engineering.
StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.
StackAdapt is the no. 1 performing programmatic advertising platform helping brands accelerate customer engagement and acquisition. This state-of-the-art platform is where some of the most progressive work in machine learning meets cutting-edge user experience.
Ranking the highest in performance by G2 Crowd for the fourth time, we're one of the fastest growing companies in Canada and ranks 6th in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 ranking and 23rd in Fast 500 in North America.
We're seeking a Senior Data Engineer to help our growing backend engineering team. We’re working on an exciting new data engineering initiative to solve a hard and complex big data problem, leveraging new technologies, at the core of what StackAdapt is built upon. We are seeking experienced data engineering candidates to help us design and build this from the ground up! Our real-time advertising bidding system handles over 3,000,000 requests per second and stores several terabytes of data every day. Our technologies include Go, Ruby on Rails, Aerospike, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, RocksDB, Redshift, ScyllaDB, GraphQL and others. We're not afraid to test and try new technologies.
Watch our talk at Amazon Tech Talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRqu-a4gPuU
StackAdapt is a Remote First company, we are open to candidates located anywhere in North America for this position.
What you'll be doing:
- Working with a team of engineers to build first-party and third-party data integration with external data sources
- Build and architect scalable low-latency backend systems and big data pipelines
- Provide technical guidance in designing scalable solutions and best practices
- Make a positive impact on the team's productivity and growth
- Promote software development best-practices and conduct rigorous code reviews
- Rigorously identify and solve technical challenges
- Write performance efficient and memory optimized code that can scale with the volume of data that we ingest
We'll be reaching out to applicants that have:
- Adtech experience or Martech experience is a plus
- Exposure to machine learning is a plus
- Proven track record of building scalable data pipelines and services
- Experience with working with large data in low-latency environments
- Software development experience in distributed systems, architecting scalable microservices and data pipelines in a successful high-growth technology company
- A strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms
- Up to date knowledge and experience in the latest technologies, tools, and frameworks
- Experience with data engineering tools and frameworks (Spark, Flink, Apache Beam, BigQuery, Redshift, dbt, etc)
- Experience with Go, Scala, Python, or high performance databases is a plus
StackAdapters enjoy:
- Highly competitive salary
- RRSP/401K matching
- 3 weeks vacation + 3 personal care days + 1 Culture & Belief day + birthdays off
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care platform
- Full benefits from day one of employment
- Work from home reimbursements
- Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office
- Robust training and onboarding program
- Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, etc)
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
- An awesome parental leave policy
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
- Our social and team events!
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StackAdapt is a diverse and inclusive team of collaborative, hardworking individuals trying to make a dent in the universe. No matter who you are, where you are from, who you love, follow in faith, disability (or superpower) status, ethnicity, or the gender you identify with (if you’re comfortable, let us know your pronouns), you are welcome at StackAdapt. If you have any requests or requirements to support you throughout any part of the interview process, please let our Talent team know.
About StackAdapt
We've been recognized for our diverse and supportive workplace, high performing campaigns, award-winning customer service, and innovation. We've been awarded:
Ad Age Best Places to Work 2024
G2 Top Software and Top Marketing and Advertising Product for 2024
Campaign’s Best Places to Work 2023 for the UK
2024 Best Workplaces for Women and in Canada by Great Place to Work®
#1 DSP on G2 and leader in a number of categories including Cross-Channel Advertising
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Top Skills
Aerospike
Apache Beam
BigQuery
Dbt
Elasticsearch
Flink
Go
GraphQL
Kafka
Redis
Redshift
Rocksdb
Ruby On Rails
Scylladb
Spark
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