Senior Ads Data Engineer — AI-Native, Remote-First

Life360; United States; Remote; USD 129,000 - 192,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, life and disa

401(k) plan with company matching

Paid parental leave

Mental Wellness Program & EAP

Flexible PTO and holidays

Learning & Development

Remote equipment reimbursement

Free Life360 Platinum Membership

Job summary

Life360 is seeking a Senior Ads Data Engineer to own our Databricks-based data pipelines, optimize Spark workloads, and extend our data platform for marketing analytics across campaigns and revenue reporting.

You will collaborate with analysts, ad strategists, and sales to deliver durable data products, maintain semantic definitions for core metrics, and guide infrastructure with Terraform and AWS while upholding data governance and reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data engineering on production data platforms.
• Deep Spark (PySpark/Scala) expertise.
• Strong Databricks/Delta Lake knowledge.
• Proficient SQL and Python (or Scala) skills.
• Hands-on with dbt, CI/CD, and Terraform.
• Experience with AWS and data governance/compliance.
• Advertising / ad tech domain experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own Databricks-based data pipelines and dashboards.
• Collaborate with analysts and sales to turn questions into data products.
• Develop dbt models and maintain semantic definitions of metrics.
• Manage infrastructure with Terraform and AWS.
• Implement data quality, lineage, SLAs, and monitoring.
• Optimize Spark workloads for performance and cost.
• Contribute to engineering best practices and mentoring.

Skills

Spark

Databricks

SQL

Python

dbt

Terraform

AWS

Airflow/CI-CD

Data modeling

AI tools

Data governance

Ad tech

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Git

CI/CD

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Life360 is seeking a Senior Ads Data Engineer to own our Databricks-based data pipelines, optimize Spark workloads, and extend our data platform for marketing analytics across campaigns and revenue reporting.

You will collaborate with analysts, ad strategists, and sales to deliver durable data products, maintain semantic definitions for core metrics, and guide infrastructure with Terraform and AWS while upholding data governance and reliability.