Senior Data Engineer

Taiv, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA +1

What you will do

Standardize the data models that describe Taiv's business: devices, venues, advertisers, campaigns, impressions, and detection output, so every team works from the same definitions and trusts the result.
Build and own the ETL pipelines that move data from our production systems and device fleet into the warehouse, with the orchestration, testing, and monitoring to keep them reliable as the fleet grows.

What you need

What We're Looking For

Taiv runs on data from tens of thousands of devices in the field, the ads we serve, the venues and advertisers on the platform, and the output of our in-house computer vision models. We're hiring a Senior Data Engineer to own how that data is modeled, moved, and reported on. You'll standardize our data models, build and run the ETL pipelines that feed them, and own the reporting layer that engineering and the business rely on.

This is a senior individual contributor role with real ownership from day one. You'll report to our Director of Software, Growth & Operations and work across every engineering team. The data function at Taiv is growing, and there will be plenty of room to grow with it as the team expands. The scope also reaches well beyond core data engineering. The foundation you build here will power product analytics across the company, the evaluation infrastructure behind our ML models, and a proprietary measurement and attribution system that shows advertisers exactly what their campaigns on Taiv drive.

Who You Are

You've built a data function before, or been early enough at one to know what the first six months of decisions look like. You've seen how early choices about data models either pay off for years or get rebuilt, and you have opinions about which is which.
You are hands-on. You write the SQL, you build the pipeline, you debug the job that failed. You'd rather build the thing than write a doc about building it.
You think about data in terms of the questions it needs to answer. Before you build a table, you know who will use it and what decision it drives.
You can work with people who aren't data people. You can sit with an engineering lead or a salesperson, figure out what they actually need, and translate that into something concrete.
You hold a high bar for correctness. A dashboard that's wrong is worse than no dashboard, and you treat data quality as an engineering problem with tests and monitoring, not a cleanup task.
You are comfortable with ambiguity. You'll set the direction for data at Taiv, and you want that kind of ownership.

Your Qualifications

6+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data science with a strong engineering component
Experience designing data models and warehouse schemas that other teams build on
Experience building and operating production ETL/ELT pipelines, including orchestration, testing, and monitoring
Expert-level SQL and strong Python
Hands-on experience with at least one modern data warehouse or query engine (ClickHouse, Athena, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or similar)
Experience with BI and reporting tools (Metabase, Looker, Tableau, or similar) and defining company metrics
Experience working with event data at scale, ideally from a large fleet of devices, a consumer product, or an ad platform
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent experience
Willing to work in person at our Winnipeg office. We will support relocation for the right candidate.

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