Senior Ads Data Engineer AI-Native on Databricks (Remote)

Nativo; United States; Remote; USD 129,000 - 192,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k)

Parental leave

Mental Wellness Program

Generous time off

Learning & Development

Remote work equipment reimbursement

Life360 Platinum Membership

Job summary

Life360 is hiring a Senior Ads Data Engineer to own the Databricks platform, optimize batch and streaming pipelines, and deliver durable data products for campaigns, audiences, and revenue reporting.

You’ll work with analysts, ad strategists, and sales teams to define metrics, ensure data quality, and scale data infrastructure in a remote-first environment. Strong Python/SQL, Spark, and dbt skills are required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data engineering experience building production data platforms at scale.
• Experience with Spark (PySpark/Scala) and Databricks platform.
• Hands-on with Terraform, AWS, and CI/CD workflows.
• Experience in data governance, privacy and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Enhance, extend, and operate batch and streaming pipelines and Delta Lake tables on Databricks.
• Partner with analysts and sales to turn questions into durable data products.
• Build and maintain dbt models and tests; own semantic layer and metrics definitions.
• Manage Databricks and AWS infrastructure as code.
• Integrate data from ad platforms, CRM, partner feeds, and internal systems.
• Implement data quality tests, monitoring, lineage, SLAs, and data contracts.
• Tune Spark/Databricks workloads for performance and cost.
• Establish engineering best practices and mentor engineers.
• Apply data governance, privacy, and access controls across the platform.
• Enhance LLM development support capabilities for faster debugging and deployment.

Skills

SQL

Python

Spark

Databricks

Delta Lake

dbt

Airflow

CI/CD

Data Modeling

Data Governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Databricks

Delta Lake

dbt

S3

Job description

Life360 is hiring a Senior Ads Data Engineer to own the Databricks platform, optimize batch and streaming pipelines, and deliver durable data products for campaigns, audiences, and revenue reporting.

You’ll work with analysts, ad strategists, and sales teams to define metrics, ensure data quality, and scale data infrastructure in a remote-first environment. Strong Python/SQL, Spark, and dbt skills are required.