Data Engineer II

• Own data pipelines end to end, from source system to delivery
• Design and implement ELT processes that hold up as data complexity grows
• Build and maintain integrations with advertising platform and martech APIs - including: auth, rate limits, pagination, schema drift, and backfills
• Design and improve the data models feeding our reporting and business intelligence tools
• Build monitoring and alerting for data quality, so problems surface before stakeholders find them
• Diagnose and resolve data issues, including the ambiguous ones with no obvious owner
• Ship production-ready work: tested, validated, monitored
• Document what you build well enough that we can operate it when you’re not on a project with us
• Make technical decisions, justify them, and raise tradeoffs early rather than after the fact
• Give clear status updates and flag blockers fast

• 4+ years building and maintaining production data pipelines
• Strong SQL and strong Python
• Demonstrated experience with production API integrations against third-party platforms
• Experience with a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or similar)
• Experience with data orchestration tooling (Fivetran, Airflow, Dagster, or similar)
• Solid data modeling fundamentals
• Git and collaborative development workflows
• Practical experience with data quality monitoring and validation
• Clear written communication with both technical and non-technical people
• AI-Assisted Development experience

Nice to Have

• Digital advertising domain experience - Meta Ads, Google Ads, The Trade Desk, DV360, CM360, HubSpot
• dbt or a similar SQL transformation framework
• Experience with low-code platforms such as Retool or Airtable
• Google Cloud Platform
• TypeScript / Next.js

Our Stack

• Snowflake
• Python
• TypeScript/Next.js
• Google Cloud Run

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Pathlabs is an extension of an agency’s team, combining the best of both worlds between in-house teams and media vendors. In a product-obsessed world, we double down on service-based solutions. We focus on planning, executing, optimizing, and reporting of performance-based paid advertising campaigns - providing our clients a single point of entry into the world of digital media. Engagement Details

• Type: Independent contractor, project-based
• Rate: Negotiable
• Expected availability: 30-40 hrs/week
• Initial engagement: September 2026 - February 2027
• Ongoing: Project-based as capacity demands. No guaranteed minimum hours.
• Location: Fully remote
• Equipment: You provide your own.
• Before you touch client data: We’ll need a signed NDA and IP assignment. We handle media data for agency clients, so this isn’t negotiable.

Pathlabs is an end-to-end digital media partner built for agencies. We handle all aspects of our clients’ digital media campaigns, so they can focus on growing their business.