Data Engineer
New York City, NY - USA
Job Summary
Data Engineer
Location: New York NY
Employment Type: Full-time
Focus: Data Engineering Snowflake Data Modeling AI Data Infrastructure Marketing Technology
About Our Client
Our client is building an AI-powered platform for marketing leaders.
Their technology helps marketing teams focus on brand storytelling while AI agents handle the operationally intensive work behind the scenes including data management analytics campaign generation measurement and reporting.
The platform is built on a proprietary consumer graph covering more than 270M U.S. consumers and thousands of through-time attributes. On top of that data foundation our client has built agentic systems that help brands unify first-party data standardize messy datasets train targeting models improve campaign performance and give marketing teams meaningful time back.
The company works with leading consumer brands across sports financial services hospitality real estate estate planning and other major categories. They have raised $20M from top-tier investors and are building a deeply technical team with experience across data AI marketing finance research and consumer technology.
About the Role
Our client is hiring a Data Engineer to design operate and scale the pipelines storage layers and standardization systems that power their data product and AI platform.
This role is ideal for someone who is strong in analytics engineering data modeling Snowflake-powered warehouses and resilient data infrastructure. Youll help build and scale the data foundation behind a massive people data product while partnering closely with data scientists AI engineers and product teams.
This is a high-ownership role for someone who can build reliable pipelines improve data quality support large-scale first-party integrations and help enable AI and agentic access layers on top of structured data.
What Youll Do
Own ingestion data modeling and transformation for a large-scale consumer data product
Build and improve features attributes and pipelines across hundreds of millions of individuals
Scale first-party data integrations with sales marketing and customer systems of record
Support and improve a growing multi-terabyte data footprint
Partner with data scientists to productionize complex data pipelines and modeling workflows
Improve data quality reliability standardization and scalability across the platform
Build data infrastructure that supports AI-powered products and agentic workflows
Enable AI and agentic access layers including natural language retrieval APIs and structured data orchestration
Work on data products that directly support major enterprise customer opportunities
Build with modern data infrastructure including Snowflake lakehouse architecture on S3 Dagster dbt and AWS
What Were Looking For
Strong experience in data engineering analytics engineering or data infrastructure
Experience owning data modeling and transformations in Snowflake or a similar cloud data warehouse
Strong SQL skills and comfort working with large complex datasets
Experience building resilient ingestion pipelines and transformation workflows
Experience with tools such as dbt Dagster Airflow or similar orchestration platforms
Familiarity with AWS data infrastructure S3-based lakehouse patterns or similar cloud environments
Strong understanding of data quality standardization schema design and pipeline reliability
Ability to partner closely with data scientists and product teams
Comfort working in a fast-moving startup environment with high ownership
Interest in building data systems that power AI products marketing intelligence and agentic workflows
Bonus Experience
Experience with consumer data identity graphs marketing data or customer data platforms
Experience integrating with sales and marketing systems of record
Experience building data products for enterprise customers
Experience enabling AI LLM or agentic access layers on top of structured data
Experience with natural language data retrieval semantic layers or structured data orchestration
Experience working with multi-terabyte datasets or large-scale people data products
Why This Opportunity
Build the data infrastructure behind an AI-native marketing intelligence platform
Work on a large-scale proprietary consumer graph covering hundreds of millions of U.S. consumers
Partner with strong technical teams across data science AI product and engineering
Help scale first-party data integrations for leading consumer brands
Build data systems that directly unlock major enterprise customer opportunities
Work with modern data tools across Snowflake dbt Dagster S3 and AWS
Join a venture-backed company with $20M raised and strong commercial momentum
Required Experience:
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