Senior Data Engineer, Kargo
Identity
Mobile advertisement platform
Posted today
Mobile advertisement platform
501-1000 employees
Posted today
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Kargo's mission is to empower advertisers to break convention and build connections with consumers on the most important screen today—the phone.
Role
Who you are
- Strong expertise in implementing, maintaining, and optimizing large-scale data systems with minimal oversight
- Deep proficiency in Python, Spark, and Iceberg, with a clear understanding of data structuring for efficiency and performance
- Experience with Airflow for building robust data workflows is strongly preferred
- Extensive DevOps experience, particularly with AWS (including EKS), Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD automation using ArgoCD, and monitoring via Prometheus
- Familiarity with Snowflake, including writing and optimizing SQL queries and understanding Snowflake's performance and cost dynamics
- Comfort with Agile methodologies, including regular use of Jira and Confluence for task management and documentation
- Proven ability to independently drive implementation and problem-solving, turning ambiguity into clearly defined actions
- Excellent communication skills to effectively engage in discussions with technical teams and stakeholders
- Familiarity with identity, privacy, and targeting methodologies in AdTech is required
What the job involves
- At Kargo, we are rapidly evolving our data infrastructure and capabilities to address challenges of data scale, new methodologies for onboarding and targeting, and rigorous privacy standards
- We're looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join our team, focusing on hands-on implementation, creative problem-solving, and exploring new technical approaches
- You'll work collaboratively with our technical leads and peers, actively enhancing and scaling the data processes that drive powerful targeting systems
- Independently implement, optimize, and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines using Python, Airflow, Spark, Iceberg, Snowflake, Aerospike, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), AWS, and real-time streaming technologies like Kafka and Flink
- Engage proactively in collaborative design and brainstorming sessions, contributing technical insights and innovative ideas for solving complex data engineering challenges
- Support the definition and implementation of robust testing strategies, and guide the team in adopting disciplined CI/CD practices using ArgoCD to enable efficient and reliable deployments
- Monitor and optimize data systems and infrastructure to ensure operational reliability, performance efficiency, and cost-effectiveness
- Actively contribute to onboarding new datasets, enhancing targeting capabilities, and exploring modern privacy-compliant methodologies
- Maintain thorough documentation of technical implementations, operational procedures, and best practices for effective knowledge sharing and onboarding
Our take
The way in which advertisers reach out to their audiences has changed dramatically over the last decade, primarily due to the invention of the smartphone. Whilst mobile ads have existed since the beginning of smartphones, most rely on technology that was built for desktops, resulting in bad advertising and missed opportunities.
Kargo provides a mobile advertising platform for marketers and publishers, helping them to deliver better business outcomes by leveraging advertising technology designed specifically for mobile. The company achieves this by directly integrating optimized impressions from the best-performing publishers within its specialized supply, using tangible identity metrics to analyze and improve advertiser KPIs, and overall facilitating personalized and mobile-optimized advertising.
The company acquired Videobyte (a video advertising platform for Connected TV) in early 2023 to expand operations into the relatively young digital TV industry and its lucrative TV formats. Bringing video, publisher tools, and unique formats to Kargo's omnichannel, this acquisition indicates a diversification of mediums for the advertising provider, who already has a firm grip on both mobile and desktop advertising platforms.
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Insights
20% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
Karry Kargman
(CEO)Experience as Corporate Business Developer for Intel Venture and Corporate Strategist for Intertainer.
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