Ads Measurement & Orchestration Lead Engineer

Databricks Inc.; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 254,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking an senior engineer to lead the ingest and normalization of advertising platform data at scale, tackling rate limits, schema drift, backfills, and restated numbers. The role focuses on building aggregation and identity layers to harmonize campaigns across platforms with strong cross‑functional collaboration.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of engineering experience, hands‑on ad API work, and a track record shipping LLM‑powered systems to production.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience, including time as a tech lead or leading other tech leads on complex enterprise software projects.
• Hands‑on experience with walled garden advertising APIs (Meta, Google, Amazon, TikTok) or the advertiser/agency/DSP side.
• Working knowledge of ad tech data models: campaign hierarchies, attribution windows, conversion APIs, deduplication.
• Familiarity with measurement approaches such as MTA, MMM, incrementality testing, and privacy‑preserving aggregation.
• Experience shipping LLM‑powered systems to production, including evaluation and guardrails.
• High ownership and bias for action in 0→1 environments; pragmatic trade-offs with incomplete information.
• Strong ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and design teams.
• Combination of technical and people leadership (TLM) is a nice to have.

Responsibilities

• Lead the ingest and normalization path for advertising platform data at scale, including rate limits and backfills.
• Design aggregation and identity layers to make figures from different platforms comparable.
• Lead development of agentic workflows that parse, interpret, present, and act on performance data.
• Set the correctness and evaluation bar in a domain with noisy ground truth.
• Partner with product, design, and engineering to build scalable, extensible solutions driving growth.

Skills

Tech lead experience

Advertising APIs

Ad tech data models

LLM in production

0→1 ownership

Cross-functional collaboration

Team leadership

Job description

Databricks is seeking an senior engineer to lead the ingest and normalization of advertising platform data at scale, tackling rate limits, schema drift, backfills, and restated numbers. The role focuses on building aggregation and identity layers to harmonize campaigns across platforms with strong cross‑functional collaboration.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of engineering experience, hands‑on ad API work, and a track record shipping LLM‑powered systems to production.