Forbes Advisor
Data Engineer- L3
Salary
Job description
Responsibilities:
1. Data Engineering & Pipelines
· Design, build, and maintain robust data data pipelines for social marketing and product data sources (APIs, event streams, batch systems)
· Develop scalable ETL/ELT workflows / microservices using Python and SQL
· Ensure high data quality, reliability and observability across pipelines
· Optimize data models for analytics and reporting use cases
2. Marketing & Ad Platform Data
1. Own ingestion and modeling of data from Meta Ads (Facebook) and other digital marketing platforms
2. Build datasets that support:
· Campaign performance tracking
· Lead funnel analysis
· Attribution and conversion tracking
3. Understand key concepts such as:
· Campaign structure (campaign/ad set/ad level)
· Bidding & optimization signals
· Attribution windows
· Pixel / event tracking
3. Business Understanding & Collaboration
· Translate business requirements from marketing, growth and product teams into scalable data solutions
· Define success metrics tied to revenue and performance
· Enable self-serve analytics through well-structured datasets
4. Data Quality & Governance
· Implement validation checks, monitoring and alerting for pipelines
· Ensure consistency across different marketing data sources
· Maintain clear documentation of data models and pipelines
5. Business Collaboration & Use Case Ownership
• Work closely with marketing, growth, and analytics teams to:
Understand real-world use cases
Define success metrics tied to revenue and performance
• Own key use cases such as:
Lead funnel optimization
Campaign attribution
Revenue reporting and forecasting
• Ensure data enables decision-making, not just reporting
6. Engineering Standards & Best Practices
· Design and implement modular, reusable microservices that enable the scalable development of data products.
· Drive standardization through well-architected, loosely coupled services that can be leveraged across multiple use cases.
· Uphold high standards in:
Code quality and modularity
Pipeline reliability and monitoring
Documentation and data contracts
· Contribute to shared frameworks and reusable components
· Promote best practices across the data engineering team
Required Skills & Qualifications
1. Core Technical Skills
· Strong proficiency in Python (must-have)
· Advanced SQL skills for large-scale data processing
· Hands-on experience with data ingestion from APIs (rate limits, pagination, retries)
· Experience with data orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow or equivalent)
· Familiarity with cloud data platforms (BigQuery, etc.)
· Experience building scalable data ingestion systems
· Familiarity with microservices-style or modular data systems
· Strong understanding of performance and cost optimization
2. Ad Platform Knowledge
· Solid understanding of Meta Ads platform fundamentals
· Familiarity with:
• Campaign hierarchy and metrics (CTR, CPC, CPA, ROAS)
• Conversion tracking and attribution models
• Lead generation workflows and funnel metrics
· Ability to interpret marketing data beyond surface-level metrics
· Exposure to event tracking systems (GA4, Snowplow, etc)
Good to Have
· Experience with other ad platforms (Google Ads, Bing Ads, etc.)
· Knowledge of data modeling best practices (e.g., star schema, dbt)
· Experience with real-time or near real-time data pipelines
What Success Looks Like
· Reliable, scalable pipelines for marketing data ingestion
· High-quality datasets enabling accurate campaign and lead analysis
· Strong partnership with marketing teams, translating business needs into data solutions
· Improved visibility into lead quality, attribution and campaign performance
· Clear ownership of end-to-end data use cases, not just components
Why Join Us
· Work at the intersection of data engineering and growth marketing
· Solve high-impact problems in performance marketing and attribution
· Own meaningful data products end-to-end
· Influence both technical architecture and business outcomes
· Be part of a team that values ownership, impact and engineering excellence
Perks:
- Day off on the 3rd Friday of every month (one long weekend each month)
- Monthly Wellness Reimbursement Program to promote health well-being
- Monthly Office Commutation Reimbursement Program
- Paid paternity and maternity leaves


