Intuit Credit Karma is a mission-driven company, focused on championing financial progress for our more than 140 million members globally. While we're best known for pioneering free credit scores, our members turn to us for everything related to their financial goals, including identity monitoring, applying for credit cards, shopping for insurance and loans (car, home and personal) and savings accounts and checking accounts* – all for free. Credit Karma has grown significantly through the years: we now have more than 1,700 employees across our offices in Oakland, Charlotte, Culver City, San Diego, London, Bangalore, and New York City.
*Banking services provided by MVB Bank, Inc., Member FDIC
About the Role
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Staff Data Engineer to lead the data architecture and engineering strategy for our experimentation platform. In this role, you will build and scale the data systems that enable reliable, consistent, and timely experimentation insights across the company. You will partner with data scientists, analysts, product managers, and other engineering teams to design robust data models, pipelines, and governance practices that support thousands of metrics and diverse statistical methodologies.
This is a high-impact, high-visibility position that demands strong software engineering and data engineering expertise, architectural leadership, and a passion for building highly available and performant distributed systems. You will define the technical roadmap and strategy for the experimentation platform’s analytics infrastructure, ensuring alignment with business objectives while pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in experimentation and data analysis.
Our experimentation platform is a distributed, highly available, low latency Finagle service. The platform leverages Google Cloud technologies, including Cloud Composer for workflow orchestration, Dataflow for data processing, and BigQuery for data warehousing. Our statistical engine applies a combination of Python libraries (e.g., Statsmodels, SciPy) and custom algorithms to analyze experiment results.
Responsibilities:
- Define Technical Strategy
Provide the roadmap and architecture for the experimentation platform’s infrastructure, ensuring alignment with business objectives and adherence to industry best practices. - Develop Near Real-Time Systems
Lead critical initiatives to build our next-generation near real-time ecosystem, to enhance near real-time observability and alerting, leveraging Scala, Pub/Sub, Akka, and Dataflow on Google Cloud. - Build Scalable Pipelines
Architect and maintain large-scale batch data pipelines using Google Dataflow, BigQuery, and Airflow/Cloud Composer to handle high-volume, batch data processing. - Develop Core Capabilities
Enhance the experimentation platform with new capabilities such as experiment targeting and localized assignments at scale to reduce latency and improve developer experience. - Optimize Data Infrastructure
Drive efficiency and performance improvements across experimentation pipelines, frameworks, and query layers. Evaluate trade-offs in system design, balancing speed, scalability, cost, and accuracy. - Stay Current with Industry Trends
Research, evaluate, and integrate the latest advancements in experimentation methods, data analysis techniques, and cloud-based technologies to continually improve the platform. - Mentor and Guide
Provide technical leadership and support to junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth. - Collaborate on Experiment Analysis
Partner with marketers, analysts, and data scientists to build infrastructure that supports thousands of metrics and various statistical methods (e.g., t-tests, sequential testing, Bayesian analysis).
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field.
- 10+ years in software engineering, with a focus on data engineering and data architecture.
- Proficiency in Scala, Python, and SQL.
- Demonstrated success building and maintaining large-scale data pipelines using technologies such as Spark, Flink, Google Dataflow, BigQuery, or Airflow/Composer.
- Familiarity with Python libraries for statistical analysis (e.g., Statsmodels, SciPy).
- Deep understanding of software development lifecycle best practices, including agile methodologies.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
- Proven ability to lead complex projects and mentor engineering teams.
- Proven expertise in A/B testing methodologies and statistical concepts.
- Previous experience building analytics pipelines at experimentation platform at large-scale tech companies serving millions of users or vendors (e.g., Optimizely, Statsig, LaunchDarkly)
- Knowledge of heterogeneous treatment effects and advanced statistical modeling techniques for experimentation.
- Experience with adaptive experimentation or Bayesian optimization methods.
- Medical and Dental Coverage
- Retirement Plan
- Commuter Benefits
- Wellness perks
- Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick, Baby Bonding, Cultural Observance, & More)
- Education Perks
- Paid Gift Week in December
Equal Employment Opportunity:
Credit Karma is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We welcome all candidates without regard to race, color, religion, age, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, veteran or military status, disability (physical or mental), genetic information or other protected characteristic. We prohibit discrimination of any kind and operate in compliance with applicable fair chance laws.
Credit Karma is also committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment because it is the right thing to do. We believe that such an environment advances long-term professional growth, creates a robust business, and supports our mission of championing financial progress for everyone. We offer generous benefits and perks with a single eye to nourishing an inclusive environment that recognizes the contributions of all and fosters diversity by supporting our internal Employee Resource Groups. We’ve worked hard to build an intensely collaborative and creative environment, a diverse and inclusive employee culture, and the opportunity for professional growth. As part of the Credit Karma team, your voice will be heard, your contributions will matter, and your unique background and experiences will be celebrated.
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What We Do
Credit Karma is focused on championing financial progress for over 110 million members in the U.S., Canada and U.K. While we're best known for pioneering free credit scores, our members turn to us for resources as they work toward their financial goals. This includes tools for credit and identity monitoring, credit card recommendations, shopping for loans (car, home and personal), and growing their savings* -- all for free. We’ve grown significantly through the years, adding more than 70 million members in the last five alone. We currently have more than 1,300 employees spread across offices in Oakland, Charlotte, Los Angeles, and London.
Disrupting the financial industry is not an easy task. That’s why we know it’s one worth doing. Our core values of helpfulness, ownership, progress and empathy guide our work and our relationships.
Championing financial progress for everyone is a big mission that requires passionate people working together to make a difference in the world. If you’re up for the task, we’d love to have you on our team. Check out our open positions: https://www.creditkarma.com/careers.
*Banking services provided by MVB Bank, Inc., Member FDIC
Why Work With Us
We are a place to inspire, connect and grow. We are a diverse community of passionate people using innovation and technology to improve the lives of our members. We value our people and create ongoing opportunities for both personal and professional growth and connection. Doing good and making an impact is at the center of everything we do.
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