Senior Data Engineer — Scale Big Ad Data Pipelines

Samsung Electronics; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

401(k)

Employee Purchase Program

Tuition Assistance

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Samsung Electronics America, Inc. is seeking Data Engineers to join the Performance & Reach engineering team in Mountain View, CA. You will help power our data platforms handling billions of ad events, delivering data-driven insights for campaigns, reporting, and billing.

You will collaborate with Product, Data Science, ML, and App Eng teams, contributing to scalable pipelines, architecture reviews, and AI-assisted development practices, with opportunities for leadership and growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Electrical Engineering or related field.
• Programming experience in Python; GoLang and Java preferred; Scala nice to have.
• Understanding of data technologies incl. Snowflake, Spark, and SQL.
• Experience with or eagerness to learn streaming data systems like Kafka, Flink, or Kinesis.
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow) or willingness to learn.
• Understanding of data modeling and software engineering best practices.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with growth mindset.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to scalable, high-performance data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and analytics across large-scale advertising datasets.
• Support development and optimization of data models for reporting, billing, and campaign delivery systems.
• Participate in building and maintaining batch and real-time data processing workflows handling billions of events daily.
• Help ensure data quality, completeness, and accuracy through automated validation frameworks and reconciliation checks.
• Contribute to Snowflake optimization including query performance and cost-efficient data processing patterns.
• Support workflow orchestration for multi-stage data pipelines.
• Follow engineering standards for CI/CD pipelines, test coverage, and deployment quality gates.
• Collaborate with cross-functional and cross-site teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews for data systems.
• Learn and apply data engineering best practices and operational excellence.
• Develop prototypes and contribute to proofs of concept.
• Adopt AI-assisted development practices and GenAI tool adoption.

Skills

Python

GoLang

Java

Scala

Snowflake

Spark

SQL

Kafka

Flink

Kinesis

Airflow

Data Modeling

CI/CD

Cloud - AWS

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Electrical Engineering

Tools

Snowflake

Spark

SQL

Kafka

Flink

Kinesis

Airflow

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Samsung Electronics America, Inc. is seeking Data Engineers to join the Performance & Reach engineering team in Mountain View, CA. You will help power our data platforms handling billions of ad events, delivering data-driven insights for campaigns, reporting, and billing.

You will collaborate with Product, Data Science, ML, and App Eng teams, contributing to scalable pipelines, architecture reviews, and AI-assisted development practices, with opportunities for leadership and growth.