About TripleLift
We're TripleLift, an advertising platform on a mission to elevate digital advertising through beautiful creative, quality publishers, actionable data and smart targeting. Through over 1 trillion monthly ad transactions, we help publishers and platforms monetize their businesses. Our technology is where the world's leading brands find audiences across online video, connected television, display and native ads. Brand and enterprise customers choose us because of our innovative solutions, premium formats, and supportive experts dedicated to maximizing their performance.
As part of the Vista Equity Partners portfolio, we are NMSDC certified, qualify for diverse spending goals and are committed to economic inclusion. Find out how TripleLift raises up the programmatic ecosystem at triplelift.com.
TripleLift is seeking a Data Engineer II to join a small, influential Data Engineering team. You will be responsible for evolving and optimizing our high-volume, low-latency data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing data flow and collection for cross functional teams. The ideal candidate is an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up. In this role, you will support our software engineers, product managers, business intelligence analysts, and data scientists on data initiatives. You will also ensure optimal data delivery architecture is applied consistently across all new and ongoing projects. Ideal candidates will be self-starters who can efficiently meet the data needs of various teams, systems, and products. The right candidate will be excited by the prospect of optimizing or even re-designing our company’s data architecture to support our next generation of products and data initiatives.
Responsibilities:- Create and maintain optimal, high-throughput data platform architecture handling 100’s of billions of daily events.
- Explore, refine and assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional product and business requirements.
- Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
- Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using Spark, EMR, Snowpark, Kafka and other big data technologies
- Work with stakeholders across geo-distributed teams, including product managers, engineers and analysts to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
- Digest and communicate business requirements effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- 2+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role
- Bachelors Degree, or higher, in Computer Science or related Engineering field
- Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures and data sets
- Strong working knowledge of Databricks/Spark and associated APIs
- Experience with object-oriented and functional scripting languages: Python, Java, Scala and associated toolchain
- Experience working with relational databases, SQL authoring/optimizing as well as operational familiarity with a variety of databases.
- Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS
- Experience working with NoSQL data stores such as: Elasticsearch, Apache Druid
- Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Airflow
- Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement
- Strong experience working with unstructured and simi-structured data formats: JSON, Parquet, Iceberg, Avro, Protobuf
- Expert knowledge of processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.
- Proven experience in manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large, disparate datasets.
- Working knowledge of streams processing, message queuing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores.
- Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.
- Streaming systems experience with Kafka, Spark Streaming, Kafka Streams
- Snowflake/Snowpark
- DBT
- Exposure to AdTech
Life at TripleLift
At TripleLift, we’re a team of great people who like who they work with and want to make everyone around them better. This means being positive, collaborative, and compassionate. We hustle harder than the competition and are continuously innovating.
Learn more about TripleLift and our culture by visiting our LinkedIn Life page.
Establishing People, Culture and Community Initiatives
At TripleLift, we are committed to building a culture where people feel connected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We invest in our people and foster a workplace that encourages curiosity, celebrates shared values, and promotes meaningful connections across teams and communities. We want to ensure the best talent of every background, viewpoint, and experience has an opportunity to be hired, belong, and develop at TripleLift. Through our People, Culture, and Community initiatives, we aim to create an environment where everyone can thrive and feel a true sense of belonging.
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TripleLift Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about TripleLift and has not been reviewed or approved by TripleLift.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity participation and stock option grants are described as meaningful parts of total compensation and are frequently appreciated. Equity is noted alongside bonuses as a valuable upside that contributes to overall satisfaction.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO, paid holidays and sick days, monthly mental health days, and a one‑month sabbatical after five years illustrate a generous time‑off offering. These policies are portrayed as supporting work‑life balance and wellbeing.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, FSAs, and company‑paid disability insurance are positioned as competitive. Access to wellbeing resources such as Headspace and other programs further bolsters the benefits package.
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TripleLift is redefining digital advertising by delivering innovative, high-quality ad experiences that create real connections. By combining cutting-edge creative technology, actionable data, advanced targeting, and premium inventory, we empower publishers and brands to discover new opportunities, achieve measurable outcomes, and engage audiences seamlessly across every platform.
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