Samsara

Senior Data Engineer – Marketing AI

Samsara

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Canada

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Salary

💰 CA$115,175 - CA$149,050 per year

Job Level

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 architectureETLELTdata transformation
Soft skills
communicationproject managementproblem solvingmentoringindependent workcollaborationrequirement gatheringstakeholder engagementinnovationresponsibility