Staff Data Platform Engineer
Required skills
- data control plane
- metadata-driven platforms
- catalogs
- lineage
- contracts
- quality automation
- AI agents
Nice to have
- batch to streaming
- cost tradeoffs
- significant scale
- production
- high-volume event data
- multiple consumers
Role summary
Kargo is seeking a founding Staff Data Platform Engineer to build a unified, self-serve platform for advertisers across CTV, web, mobile apps, and social. This role will focus on creating a data platform that is extensible, trustworthy, and structured for automated triage. You will shape standards, build software, and open the platform to company-wide contributors. Key responsibilities include developing a data control plane for schemas, lineage, ownership, and quality; creating a paved road for data product development with libraries and CI/CD; implementing an enforcement layer with schema registries and validators; and ensuring all data products are observable by default. The role requires strong experience in Python, AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes, with preferred experience in streaming, Spark, Iceberg, Snowflake, and AI agent tooling.
Kargo creates powerful moments of connection between brands and consumers to build businesses. Every day, our dynamic teams work to radically raise the bar on what agentic AI, CTV, eCommerce, social, and mobile can do to deliver unique ad experiences across the world’s most premium platforms. Taking a Creative Science approach to all we do, we continuously innovate solutions that outperform industry benchmarks and client expectations. Kargo is growing rapidly and currently has offices in NYC, Chicago, LA, Dallas, Sydney, Auckland, London and Waterford, Ireland.
Who We Hire
Techies who want to build the future. Creatives who want to design it better. Communicators to win business. Collaborators to build it. Data pros who turn numbers into insights. Product builders who turn ideas into innovations. Anyone eager to be on a team that doesn’t stop to ask what’s next, because they’re already building it.
The Opportunity
Kargo is building toward a unified platform where advertisers run campaigns across CTV, web, mobile apps, and social entirely self-serve. This is the first time that capability goes directly into clients' hands. Clients will pull their own reports, debug their own setups, and ask why a campaign isn't pacing, so the data behind them must be quick to extend, stable enough to trust, and structured for automated triage. Our pipelines already run at that scale, but each demand is met one team at a time: reporting is bespoke, stability rests on each team's own practice and monitors, and triage depends on whoever knows the pipeline.
We're standing up a Data Platform team to solve these problems once for the whole company, and you'll be its founding engineer. Working directly with the Sr. Director of Data Engineering, you'll shape the standards and build the software that enables and enforces them, open the platform up to contributors across Kargo, and grow the team as its scope expands. You'll own it as a long-term product: modular tools and paved roads that let any team publish data and have it arrive discoverable, reliable, and observable enough to triage without tribal knowledge.
The Daily To-Do
Qualifications:
Strongly Preferred
Nice to have:
What We're Proud Of
Following Our Lead
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