
Senior Data Engineer – Marketing AI
Samsara
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • United States
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Salary
💰 $112,455 - $170,100 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Architect and maintain complex marketing databases, datasets, pipelines and Samsara’s Customer Data Platform (CDP) to enable advanced segmentation, targeting, automation and analytics.
- Design and implement data infrastructure for AI/ML initiatives, including building pipelines for Generative AI applications, feature stores, and vector database integrations to support predictive modeling and personalization.
- Support the execution of expanding conversational BI and Ambient AI within the marketing organization in partnership with the BI team.
- Support in the automation of many manual tasks through the use of AI leading to efficiency gains for the whole marketing organization.
- Manage critical, high-volume data pipelines to enable our growth initiatives and advanced analytics. Manage the SLAs for those data pipelines and constantly improve efficiency and data quality.
- Facilitate sophisticated data integration and transformation requirements for moving data between applications; ensuring interoperability of applications with data mart, AI models, and CDP environments.
- Autonomously partner directly with non-technical stakeholders (Marketing, Sales, Ops) to translate ambiguous business questions into technical requirements and scalable data solutions without needing constant supervision.
- Write sophisticated yet optimized data transformations in Python/SQL to generate data products consumed by customer systems and Analytics, Marketing Operations, and Sales Operations teams.
- Mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, and help define best practices for the data engineering team.
Requirements
- 5+ years of working experience in a data engineering or data engineering adjacent role.
- Expert Python and SQL knowledge with strong hands-on data modeling experience.
- Proven experience engineering data pipelines for AI/ML workloads (e.g., preparing unstructured data for LLMs, working with vector stores, or building feature engineering pipelines).
- Proven experience building and scaling RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) infrastructure, including managing vector database integrations and data-to-embedding pipelines for LLM applications.
- Deep experience with data warehouse technical architectures, infrastructure components, ETL/ ELT and reporting/analytic tools.
- Hands-on experience working with modern data technologies stack, such as Databricks, DBT, Google BigQuery, Redshift, RDS, Snowflake or similar solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to lead requirement gathering sessions independently, bridging the gap between business needs and technical implementation.
- Has demonstrated the ability to have exploratory conversations with stakeholders to understand further opportunities for automation across marketing.
- Familiarity with customer, marketing and/or web data.
- Experience integrating data from core Sales and Marketing platforms (e.g. Marketing Automation, CRM, and web analytics).
- Self-starter, motivated, responsible, innovative and technology-driven individual who performs well both independently and as a team member.
- A proactive problem solver and have good communication as well as project management skills to relay your findings and solutions across technical and non-technical audiences.
Benefits
- Full time employees receive a competitive total compensation package along with employee-led remote and flexible working, health benefits, and much, much more.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
PythonSQLdata modelingdata pipelinesAI/ML workloadsRAG infrastructuredata warehouse architecturesETLELTdata transformations
Soft skills
communicationproject managementproblem solvingmentoringindependencecollaborationrequirement gatheringstakeholder engagementinnovationresponsibility