Staff Data Engineer
About The Position
This is a new, founding team within Jane's Engineering organization, responsible for the customer data infrastructure. The team will own the collection and delivery layer end-to-end, including event pipelines, CDP tooling, and source integrations. The scope covers schema governance, source management, instrumentation standards and infrastructure, identity resolution, attribution capture, and a lightweight review process before new events ship. The role involves setting architectural direction, evaluating current tooling, defining data collection strategy, and building the systems to implement these strategies. This is an opportunity to own the engineering foundation for the company's customer data insights.
Requirements
- University Degree in Computer Science or a related STEM field.
- Hands-on experience as a data engineer or similar, including time operating at a staff level or higher.
- Experience building and maintaining event collection, customer data infrastructure, or data pipeline systems in production.
- Experience inheriting and rationalizing independently built pipelines.
- Comfort leading and owning both strategy and execution, making architectural calls, and setting standards.
- Ability to influence and drive strategy clearly across engineering, product, BI, marketing, and leadership.
- Experience evaluating or implementing Customer Data Platforms, including migrating or consolidating existing tooling.
- Experience with privacy-compliant tracking and consent management, including consent management platforms and designing instrumentation within constraints.
- Strong opinions on schema design, event taxonomy, and data quality.
- Experience with identity resolution, attribution, or cross-domain tracking.
- Proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript and SQL.
- Comfort working with AI tools as part of your day-to-day workflow.
Nice To Haves
- Python is a strong asset.
- Familiarity with Snowflake, Looker, or similar warehouse and BI tooling.
- Experience in healthcare or other regulated environments is a plus.
- Experience with server-side tagging or tag management systems.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain Jane's customer data infrastructure end-to-end, including systems, pipelines, and source integrations.
- Bring consistency and reliability to multiple independently configured sources with different conventions.
- Work directly with marketing, paid media, analytics, marketing operations, BI, and product as primary stakeholders.
- Drive tooling strategy for Jane's collection layer, including CDP, event pipeline, and ingestion infrastructure.
- Establish instrumentation standards within engineering, product, and marketing.
- Take ownership of identity resolution and attribution at the collection layer.
- Design instrumentation that works reliably within consent-gated constraints, considering PHI compliance, consent management, tag management, and third-party marketing tools.
- Apply strong product sense to set direction, shape standards, and elevate execution.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
