Senior Data Engineer

Collaboratively refine and evangelize a comprehensive framework for integrating data-thinking into the software development lifecycle for product teams.

Design, architect, and maintain core operations datasets, data marts, and feature stores that support a blend of mature products and features with a rapidly evolving product line, in partnership with analytics, data science, and machine learning.

Integrate deeply with our cross functional partners to understand their data needs, and help design datasets with the same engineering rigor as any other software we design.

Drive data quality and best practices across different business areas.

Help build the next generation data products at Thumbtack, leveraging AI models for code generation and incorporating agents into our workflows.

4+ years of experience designing and building data sets and warehouses.

Excellent ability to understand the needs of and collaborate with stakeholders in other functions, especially Analytics, and identify opportunities for process improvements across teams.

Expertise in SQL for analytics/reporting/business intelligence and also for building SQL- and Python-based transforms inside an ETL pipeline, or similar.

Experience designing, architecting, and maintaining a data warehouse and data marts that seamlessly stitches together data from production databases, clickstream data, and external APIs to serve multiple stakeholders.

Expertise building the above with a modern data stack based on a cloud-native data warehouse, in our case we use BigQuery, dbt, and Apache Airflow, but a similar stack is fine.

Experience using AI to generate design plans, code and documentation as well as applying AI-enabled workflows to accelerate development velocity and improve data engineering practices.

Strong sense of ownership and pride in your work, from ideation and requirements-gathering to project completion and maintenance.

$600B+ — opportunity in Thumbtack’s market home services

4.5M+ — customers in past 12 months

100M — projects started on Thumbtack

15M — 5-star reviews

$3.2B — valuation (as of June 2021)

In addition to our virtual-first model, we offer:

Recharge with PTO, in addition to 20 company-wide holidays each year, including a week-long end-of-year shutdown.

$1,000 USD/$1,400 CAD annual stipend for professional development, self care, office set-up and more. We also provide cell phone and Wi-Fi reimbursements.

All parents receive up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave, and birthing parents receive 8 additional weeks, for a total of 20 weeks of 100% paid parental leave (US & CAN).

12 coaching sessions and 12 therapy sessions for yourself and your dependents. We also offer one-on-one financial guidance from a financial wellness provider.

$450 USD/CAD quarterly stipend to book a pro on Thumbtack for virtual or in-person services — anything from home care services to planning a child’s birthday party and beyond.

Claude Enterprise (Claude.ai, Claude Code, Cowork, Claude Desktop, Ask Thumbtack), OpenAI Enterprise ChatGPT & Codex, Cursor, Gemini Enterprise, Granola, Coda AI, Zoom AI Companion, Linear, and more. *Access varies based on location, team, and role.