Data Engineering Lead, Rokt
mParticle
$375-515k
OTE
$250-315k
BASE
+ Employee equity plan grant
4 days a week in office
eCommerce technology & software solutions
Job no longer available
eCommerce technology & software solutions
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$375-515k
OTE
$250-315k
BASE
+ Employee equity plan grant
4 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make eCommerce smarter, faster, and better.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for someone who thrives in the intersection of deep technical problem solving and product-driven thinking
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, with a track record of building and optimizing distributed data systems
- Strong proficiency in Spark, with the ability to tune performance and debug complex pipelines at scale
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized data processing environments
- Familiarity with cloud-native architecture (AWS preferred), ETL design patterns, data lakes, and ML compute frameworks
- Experience integrating streaming technologies like Kafka or Flink into production systems
- Skilled at system design using both relational and NoSQL databases
- A collaborative mindset with strong communication skills and a passion for mentoring and teaching
- A desire to lead technically while being a hands-on IC
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Data Engineering Lead to join our Identity team—one of the most impactful and technically challenging areas of our platform. This team owns the systems responsible for resolving customer identity across channels and sources, at massive scale
- You’ll partner closely with product and engineering teams to design and deliver data systems that directly power user-facing features. While you’ll bring architectural insight, this is a highly hands-on IC role—you’ll be writing production code, tuning Spark pipelines, and translating business needs into scalable systems daily
- You’ll play a critical part in shaping the performance, reliability, and direction of our data platform—helping us deliver fast, safe, and personalized customer experiences at scale
- Build and optimize production-grade data pipelines using Apache Spark and Kubernetes to support real-time and customer-facing features
- Translate product and business requirements into scalable, maintainable data architecture across batch and streaming systems
- Partner with product managers, ML teams, and analytics stakeholders to co-own roadmap delivery and system evolution
- Define and implement data governance, quality, and lineage strategies with an automation-first mindset
- Lead by example as a hands-on contributor, actively mentoring others while owning key technical initiatives
Our take
eCommerce marketing company Rokt is helping brands leverage the power of good timing. With Rokt, brands can present their customers with AI-curated offers and messages at every stage in their transaction, at tailored times of the day, or to market themselves at the point of transaction on other major eCommerce sites.
The idea is that “transaction moments” are when shoppers are most inclined to engage further with the brand or its products - the success of Rokt’s clients, and the runaway success of Rokt itself, show that it's successfully cracked it.
Rokt has a strong client base that includes giants like Groupon, GoDaddy, and Disney, and after hitting Unicorn status, it is eyeing up a US IPO. This should come as no surprise - the surge in eCommerce trade over recent years has led to most companies investing in tools to stay competitive.
Rokt has expanded its tool suite since it first started up, and will be focused on continuing to innovate to keep ahead of the MarTech pack, and abreast of changing demand in the rapidly shifting market. The eCommerce marketing tech sector has ballooned to a $120B global operation - Rokt is positioned comfortably to keep ahead.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2021
$325m
SERIES E
Oct 2020
$80m
SERIES D
Total funding: $487.9m
Company benefits
- Interest groups, sports clubs, and social events
- Global training events & online training courses
- Stock options
- Global all-staff events in amazing locations (Phuket, Thailand in January 2020)
- Generous relocation packages
- Generous time off
- Parental leave
- Mental health and wellness days
- Paid Sabbatical for employees who have been with us 3 years or more
- £55 per month social/wellness allowance, 6 sessions with a licensed therapist, 6 coaching sessions and other mental health perks
- Gym membership
- Premium health insurance
- £25 per month telephone allowance
Company HQ
Hudson Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Bruce Buchanan
(CEO)Previously a Principal at Boston Consulting Group, before serving as Chief Commercial Officer, then Group Chief Executive Officer at Jetstar Airways.
Justin Viles
(Advisor)Previously worked on strategic partnerships in the APAC region for Google, before moving on to co-found and serve as CEO at Rocklive.
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