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Consumer Edge
United States
2 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
8 years minimum
Compensation
$175,000 - $210,000
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Airflow Amazon Web Services BigQuery Data Architecture Information Engineering Data Sharing Data Systems Data Warehousing Cursor Programming Tools Distributed Systems
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Python (Programming Language) Machine Learning SQL Databases Data Streaming Claude Code Snowflake Technical Debt AI Coding Agents Backend Apache Kafka Data Management Data Delivery Entity Resolution Data Pipelines User Identification Databricks Programming Languages

Job description

We’re hiring a Staff Data Engineer to set the technical direction for identity and audience data in our data products. You’ll design how our data connects across sources and partners, and build the pipelines our data products depend on, working with data science, product, and fellow engineers. What you’ll do

  • Own identity data. Design identity data models and matching logic, and keep them accurate, auditable, and current.
  • Build partner data mappings. Build and maintain identifier mappings with external partners, and report match quality and coverage.
  • Build data pipelines. Build and run the production pipelines behind our data products.
  • Build privacy in. Build consent, opt-out, deletion, and access controls into identity data, working with legal and security.
  • Set the quality bar. Create data quality frameworks, monitoring, and anomaly detection for pipelines that carry billions of rows.
  • Set technical direction. Lead design reviews and build-versus-buy decisions, and mentor data engineers through design and code reviews.
  • Lead how the team builds with AI. Work AI-first every day, and build the agent harnesses, shared skills, and guardrails that make AI-generated work safe to ship., Remote United States 175K-210K Annually Senior level 175K-210K Annually Senior level Database Lead the technical direction for audience data products and build high-volume pipelines for audience creation, partner data onboarding, identity mapping, and external data delivery. Mentor engineers, oversee design reviews and build-versus-buy decisions, and develop AI-enabled engineering tooling with appropriate guardrails. Collaborate with data science, product, engineering, and external partners. Top Skills: AirflowAPIsBigQueryCi/CdClaude CodeCursorDbtGithub CopilotInfrastructure As CodePythonSnowflakeSQL, Fanatics, Own the architecture and technical direction of scalable data platforms, including Python pipelines, Airflow orchestration, Snowflake, Databricks, and AWS systems. Establish standards for reliability, testing, governance, security, monitoring, and data delivery. Lead complex incident resolution, cost optimization, design reviews, and platform decisions while partnering cross-functionally. Mentor engineers, influence roadmaps, reduce technical debt, and support hiring and organizational development. Top Skills: AirflowAmazon S3SparkAWSCi/CdData CatalogingData LineageDatabricksDatadogDbtKafkaLaunchdarklyMongoDBPii MaskingPostgresPythonRbacSegmentSnowflakeSQLTableau Capital One

Requirements

  • 8+ years in data engineering or backend data systems, including production pipelines on high-volume data (consumer data is a plus)
  • Ad tech or martech experience with identity and audience data
  • Hands-on identity resolution experience, such as entity resolution or match tables, and familiarity with common ad tech identifiers
  • Experience with advertising data
  • Expert SQL and Python, with deep BigQuery or Snowflake experience and a modern stack such as dbt and Airflow
  • A track record of setting technical direction across teams, and clear communication with engineers and business leaders
  • Comfort using AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex as an everyday part of your work

Nice to have

  • Data clean room experience
  • Streaming pipelines with Kafka or Pub/Sub
  • Building AI developer tooling: agent harnesses, MCP servers, evals, or CI guardrails
  • Background in ad tech, martech, or consumer data products
  • Experience building for privacy and governance: consent, opt-outs, deletion, and state privacy laws

Benefits & conditions

We offer competitive compensation, company equity, 401(k) matching, work-from-home flexibility, and subsidized health benefits. Compensation and Benefits

The annual base salary for this role is between $175,000 - $210,000, depending on experience, with the opportunity for a performance-based bonus, company equity, 401(k) matching, paid parental leave, flexible and generous time off, work-from-home flexibility, and subsidized health benefits.

Note: Consumer Edge is currently hiring employees who reside in the following states or in Washington, DC: CA, CO, CT, FL, ID, IL, LA, MA, MD, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI., One Month Ago Remote or Hybrid 286K-392K Annually Senior level 286K-392K Annually Senior level Fintech * Machine Learning * Payments * Software * Financial Services Leads enterprise data engineering strategy and architecture for pipelines, external data sharing, and scalable data platforms. Designs and codes critical data solutions while driving adoption of modern technologies, governance, resiliency, operational excellence, and unified data architecture. Advises stakeholders, mentors engineers, recruits talent, evaluates emerging data and AI technologies, and develops platform roadmaps. The role requires hands-on expertise across AWS, lakehouse architecture, streaming, distributed computing, data warehousing, and multiple programming languages. Top Skills: AgileAirflowAmazon RedshiftApache FlinkSparkAWSAws GlueCassandraDagsterDatabricksDynamoDBEmrJavaKafkaLakehouseMongoDBMonte CarloPythonScalaSnowflakeSplunkSQL

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About the company

Join a dynamic team that’s redefining consumer data analytics. Consumer Edge (“CE”) is a leading data and insights-as-a-service (IaaS) company specializing in the global consumer, B2B, and healthcare economies. CE delivers real-time, transaction-based intelligence enriched by deep industry expertise. Its solutions equip corporate and investment leaders with best-in-class tools for strategic decision-making, offering granular insights and benchmarking across products, brands, sub-industries, and industries. CE’s unique capabilities turn complex data into clear, actionable insights that drive smarter, faster decisions., At Consumer Edge, you’ll join a high-performance team at the forefront of data-driven decision-making for the world’s leading investors and brands. You’ll have the opportunity to shape an important growth market, work alongside smart and ambitious colleagues, and directly influence how we scale internationally.

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