Marketing Data Engineer
Description For Marketing Data Engineer
Automattic, the technology company powering WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and Tumblr, is seeking a Marketing Data Engineer to join their Growth Infra team. This role combines data engineering and analytics engineering expertise to build an internal marketing automation platform. With over 1700 employees across 92 countries, Automattic offers a truly global, remote-first work environment.
The position focuses on creating robust ETL pipelines, ensuring data quality, and establishing scalable data architecture to unify marketing data across the company. You'll work with modern tools like Meltano and Fivetran, while applying your expertise in SQL and Python to solve complex data challenges.
The ideal candidate will have strong technical skills in data engineering, including ETL pipeline development, SQL proficiency, and data modeling, combined with excellent communication abilities to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. You'll be part of a company that values open source, with most work available under GPL.
Automattic offers competitive compensation ($90,000-$150,000 USD), regardless of location, with an open vacation policy and comprehensive benefits. The company is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, maintaining various employee resource groups and initiatives to support an inclusive workplace. This is an opportunity to impact digital publishing and commerce while working with a distributed, diverse team.
Responsibilities For Marketing Data Engineer
- Design, develop, and maintain ETL pipelines using tools like Meltano, Fivetran, or custom-built solutions
- Implement data validation checks to ensure integrity and quality of marketing data
- Architect and develop data models for marketing segmentation and automation
- Partner with stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver data models
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize ETL pipelines
- Contribute to data architecture design for marketing automation platform
- Ensure solutions meet security, privacy, and compliance standards
- Participate in code reviews and documentation
- Identify process improvements and reduce technical debt
- Stay informed about emerging trends in data engineering
Requirements For Marketing Data Engineer
- Experience designing and maintaining ETL pipelines using Meltano, Fivetran, Airflow, or similar
- Strong proficiency in SQL including window functions and CTEs
- Experience with data validation and testing
- Understanding of data architecture principles
- Familiarity with marketing data and segments
- Strong programming skills in Python or similar
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Exceptional communication skills
- Commitment to documentation and best practices
Benefits For Marketing Data Engineer
- Open vacation policy
- Fully remote work environment
- Comprehensive benefits package (varies by country)
- Commitment to diversity and inclusion
- Employee Resource Groups
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