Senior Python Data Engineer

AdRoll is a leading performance marketing platform with over 35,000 clients worldwide. Its suite of high-performance tools works across devices, helping businesses attract, convert, and grow their customer base. The company is home to the world's largest opt-in advertiser data co-op, the IntentMap™ with over 1.2 billion digital profiles. AdRoll’s goal is to build the most powerful marketing platform through performance, usability, and openness.

The Prospecting team at AdRoll is seeking a Python Data Engineer to build out a new, innovative data product. You will work closely with a small team of data scientists, product managers, and other engineers to implement both backend and user-facing features for Prospecting. If big data and Python is close to your heart, this is your dream job.

Prospecting is powered by a novel data infrastructure based on AWS Spot Instances, Docker, and a number of different languages. At AdRoll Engineering, we value the freedom and autonomy we give to our employees, so this is a great opportunity to learn and get to use a multitude of different technologies based on your interests. You can learn more about our approach in our blog (first post, second post).

• Write high quality, maintainable code as a senior member of the Prospecting team
• Use Python to develop new data processing tasks, metrics, and reports
• Help operating our highly-available data infrastructure
• Help developing a high-profile, innovative product that will revolutionize the way how businesses of all sizes acquire new customers based on massive amount of data and machine learning

• 4+ years experience with Python, either in research or startup/corporate environments
• Strong fundamentals: B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Experience with deploying code in production in Linux environments
• Local to San Francisco -or-
• Currently living in the U.S. and able to work remotely

Bonus Points:

• Experience with other languages such as C, OCaml, Erlang, Haskell, or Lua
• Experience with Data Science and/or Big Data
• Interest in deployment automation and scalable infrastructure. (AdRoll is a big user of AWS!)
• Contributions to the open source community, involvement in tech meetups or conferences.
• A good sense of design, direction, and humor.