Staff Software Engineer, Ads Measurement & Orchestration

Databricks; New York (NY); On-site; USD 191,000 - 254,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is hiring an experienced engineering leader to own the ingestion, normalization, and cross-platform aggregation of advertising data at scale. You will design and implement agentic workflows that interpret performance data and drive actionable insights across platforms, partnering closely with product, design, and other engineers.

The role emphasizes ownership, pragmatic decision-making in 0→1 environments, and a track record shipping large-scale data/AI infrastructure; 10+ years of

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience, including time as a tech lead or leading other tech leads
• Hands-on experience with walled garden advertising APIs (Meta, Google, Amazon, TikTok) or equivalent
• Working knowledge of ad tech data models (campaign hierarchies, attribution windows, APIs)
• Familiarity with measurement approaches (MTA, MMM, incrementality testing)
• Experience shipping LLM-powered systems to production with guardrails
• High ownership and bias for action in 0→1 environments
• Strong ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and design teams
• Nice-to-have: TLM experience, platform measurement infra experience, experimentation/causal inference

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 comparable across platforms
• Lead development of agentic workflows that parse, interpret, present, and act on performance data
• Set the correctness and evaluation bar in a noisy data domain
• Partner with product, design, and engineering to build scalable, extensible solutions that drive growth

Skills

Engineering leadership

Tech lead

Ads APIs

Data platforms

LLM systems

Experimentation

Collaboration

Product alignment

Job description

P-1607
At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.
Enterprises spend more than $700 billion on digital advertising, however for the most part, they have very little data & intelligence on how their campaigns are performing. Reconciling that is slow, manual, and mostly wrong, and optimizing those campaigns historically has involved humans and agencies. We are building the data and agent layer underneath that problem, and we are looking for an engineer to help lead that effort.

The Impact You'll Have

• Lead the ingest and normalization path for advertising platform data at scale, including rate limits, schema drift, backfills, and restated numbers
• Design the aggregation and identity layers that make figures from different platforms comparable
• Lead development of agentic workflows that parse performance data, interpret it, present it, and act on it
• Set the correctness and evaluation bar in a domain where ground truth is noisy and partially observable
• Partner closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to build intuitive, scalable, and extensible solutions that drive user & business growth

What We Look For

• 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 equivalent from the advertiser, agency, or DSP side
• Working knowledge of ad tech data models: campaign hierarchies, attribution windows, conversion APIs, deduplication across sources
• 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: you are comfortable making pragmatic trade-offs, operating with incomplete information, and driving projects from idea through launch and adoption
• Strong ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and design teams to align technical strategy with company growth objectives
• Combination of technical and people leadership, for example, as a TLM (Nice to have)
• Built or operated measurement infrastructure at a platform, measurement vendor, or large advertiser (Nice to have)
• Background in experimentation or causal inference (Nice to have)

Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non‑commissionable roles or on‑target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job‑related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
Local Pay Range
$190,900—$253,750 USD

About Databricks

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

Benefits

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio‑economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

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