Data Engineer, Rokt
$170-210k
Offers an employee equity plan grant, subject to company policies, board approval, and individual eligibility
4+ days a week in office
eCommerce technology & software solutions
Be an early applicant
eCommerce technology & software solutions
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-210k
Offers an employee equity plan grant, subject to company policies, board approval, and individual eligibility
4+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make eCommerce smarter, faster, and better.
Role
Who you are
- 3-6+ years in data engineering / data warehousing roles building production-grade data models and metrics at scale
- Expert SQL (Trino preferred) and solid Python for analytics engineering and data tooling
- Experience with Spark (PySpark or Spark SQL) for large-scale data processing, optimization, and distributed computation
- Hands-on orchestration experience (e.g., Airflow, Dagster) and comfort operating pipelines end-to-end (monitoring, backfills, SLAs, cost/perf tuning). Manage Kubernetes based data workflows
- Cloud experience with AWS
- Proficiency in at least one cloud warehouse (Clickhouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift) or datalake technologies (i.e Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, DeltaLake) and comfort with large-scale partitioning, clustering, and performance patterns
- Track record owning data quality and data reliability for critical metrics; you’ve implemented tests, lineage, and observability that prevented or rapidly mitigated incidents
- Ability to partner with engineers, PMs, and GTM teams to translate ambiguous business questions into robust metric definitions and data products
- Experience building/maintaining a semantic metrics layer (dbt metrics, LookML, MetricFlow, or Transform) and/or reverse ETL to operational tools
- Exposure to streaming patterns (Kafka/Flink/Spark Structured Streaming) and metric computation
- Familiarity with experimentation frameworks (A/B testing, guardrail metrics) and causal inference basics
- Domain experience in ecommerce / adtech / performance marketing
- Infra-as-code (e.g., Terraform), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), or platform engineering exposure
What the job involves
- Join Rokt as a Data Engineer on the Metrics team, you will architect the semantic and data layers that define how Rokt measures success. You’ll transform raw product and GTM event streams into trusted, governed, analytics-ready models; codify business logic into reusable metric definitions; and build proactive monitoring to keep our “single source of truth” healthy and reliable at scale
- You’ll serve as metric steward for one or more business domains, owning the semantic layer and data models end-to-end
- You’ll partner closely with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and GTM stakeholders across Rokt’s Research & Development organization to enable self-serve insights and consistent decision-making
- Model data for trust & reuse: Build modular, tested transformations (e.g. in Spark/Python) that convert raw logs into canonical datasets and marts powering experimentation, product analytics, and executive reporting
- Own the metrics layer: Design and maintain a governed catalog of metrics and dimensions (e.g.Datahub) with clear definitions, lineage, and versioning
- Operate reliable pipelines: Orchestrate and harden batch/stream pipelines (e.g., Airflow/Kafka/Spark) with SLAs, backfills, and cost-aware performance tuning
- Proactive data quality: Implement unit/integration tests, anomaly detection, and monitoring (e.g Great Expectations/Monte Carlo/Bigeye) to catch metric drift and upstream integration issues before they reach users
- Integration health visibility: Build dashboards/alerts for client conversion data health and integration metrics (e.g., EMQ, AQS), and drive root-cause analysis and remediation with partner teams
- Enable self-serve analytics: Create intuitive dashboards and templates (e.g., Tableau) that expose the metric layer and unlock analysis for engineering, PM, and GTM users
- Define logging standards: Partner with product/engineering to instrument event schemas and logging guidelines that improve downstream observability and data quality
- Document & govern: Establish style guides, playbooks, and change-management processes for metric and model evolution (including deprecation and backfills)
- Raise the bar: Lead code reviews, mentor peers, and contribute to platform roadmaps across Rokt Research
Application process
- If this sounds like a role you’d enjoy, apply here, and you’ll hear from our recruiting team
- Note: The first stage of the recruitment process for this role is to complete a 15-minute online aptitude test as well as an employee personality profile assessment, which will be sent out to your application email. Successful candidates will be contacted to discuss the next steps
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 PayPal, 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.
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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: $488.5m
Company benefits
- Learning and development: Develop your skills and career through our global training events, self-driven learning programs, and fantastic people leaders.
- Generous PTO and extended leave: When you work hard, we know you also need to rest. We offer generous time off and extended leave policies. Whether you are taking a tenure-based sabbatical or parental leave, we've got you covered.
- Employee equity options: All Rokt’stars have equity ownership. If we succeed, everyone enjoys the upside.
- Catered lunches: Enjoy catered lunch five times a week and healthy snacks in the office.
- Health and wellness benefits: We provide a variety of health (physical and mental) care programs, including a zero-cost monthly premium option in the US. We also offer a monthly wellness allowance and wellness sessions.
- 401K matching: In the U.S., access generous retirement plans like a 4% dollar-for-dollar 401(k) matching plan.
- Dog-friendly office: Pets make our lives better in so many ways. At work, they create a fun and happy environment, encourage conversations, and get us up for regular exercise breaks. Our NYC office is dog-friendly!
- Global travel opportunities: Along with our global all-staff events in amazing locations, we also offer generous relocation packages if you're interested in moving to another Rokt office.
- Hybrid workplace: Enjoy the best of both worlds with 4 days in office and 1 day remote according to our team-based flexibility model.
- Technology allowance: Each Rokt’star has an allowance to use toward buying new technology that tops up every year. As a technology company, we make sure our Rokt’stars are only using the latest and greatest equipment–and you can keep it even if you leave.
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.
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