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We help brands create, manage, optimise, and understand digital advertising across major media platforms.\nThe Data Platform team builds the data foundations that support product development, product analytics, and business decisions. In this role, you will build and operate the pipelines that bring data from Smartly’s product and business systems into BigQuery, then shape it into dependable datasets used across the company.\nOur production data stack includes Google Cloud, BigQuery, dbt, Airflow and Python. You will work across ingestion, storage, orchestration, modelling, and operations. Strong judgement about data storage matters: how data is structured, retained, and served affects reliability, usability, performance, and cost.\nYou will work closely with Product Analytics, BI, product engineering, and data-platform engineers. Together, we make data easier to discover, trust, and use.\nWhat you will do\nBuild and operate batch and incremental ingestion pipelines in Google Cloud to Smartly Data Platform.\nDevelop Airflow workflows using Python with best orchestration practices, including dag dependencies, retries, backfills, alerting, and recovery.\nBuild and maintain dbt transformations, from source-aligned staging models to curated warehouse datasets. Add tests and documentation, and support version control and deployment checks.\nDesign practical storage patterns across Cloud Storage and BigQuery, considering formats, data grain, partitioning, clustering, retention, lifecycle, and access controls.\nImprove data warehouse performance and cost through ongoing query and storage optimization.\nDocument data flows and operational practices so pipelines are understandable, supportable, and safe to extend.\nWork with analytics, product engineering, and platform colleagues to clarify requirements and deliver dependable datasets.\nMonitor freshness, completeness, volume, and schema changes so data problems are visible and addressed early.\nInvestigate pipeline failures and data discrepancies from source through downstream models, correct the root cause, and validate recovery.\nWhat we are looking for\nProfessional experience on building data warehouses starting from data ingestion and landing to publishing data products. \nStrong SQL and Python skills, with a track record of writing clear, maintainable code.\nA solid understanding and hands on experience on data storage and warehouse design, including how structure, volume, access patterns, and retention affect reliability, performance, cost and data modelling.\nExperience developing and supporting Airflow workflows or similar orchestration tool \nPractical dbt experience, including models, tests, documentation, and version-controlled deployment workflows.\nExperience with solving production issues in data warehouse. \nClear written and spoken English, and the ability to work effectively with engineers and analysts.\nUseful experience, but not required\nGoogle cloud development stack: Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, PostgreSQL, or other Google Cloud data services.\nKafka or other event-streaming systems, and familiarity with Kubernetes.\nData lineage, cataloguing, observability, Tableau, or Redash.\nAdvertising, marketing, or product analytics data.\nWhat we offer you\nAt Smartly, we offer a place where you can do meaningful technical work while growing with a global team.\nInclusive global culture built on trust, transparency, open feedback, and respect for different perspectives.\nGlobal impact through technology used by major brands to plan, create, optimize, and understand digital advertising at scale.\nWellbeing support, paid holidays, family leave, and sustainable ways of working.\nEquity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and career development opportunities.\nA flexible hybrid workplace that balances office collaboration with focused remote work.\nAbout Smartly\nSmartly is the AI-powered advertising technology company transforming ad experiences for brands and their consumers. Our comprehensive advertising platform seamlessly integrates the capabilities of media, creative, and intelligence to power more than 800 billion impressions and generate more than 300 billion creatives annually, delivering tangible business outcomes for brands and advertisers.\nSmartly is the only company in the industry recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Creative Advertising Technologies with PwC validating the results it delivers for brands. We manage creative and media for 700+ brands worldwide and $6B in ad spend across the largest media platforms, including Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, and TikTok. Our end-to-end technology, unmatched access to media platforms and exceptional customer service help Fortune 500 brands to reach and engage consumers and learn what performs best.Smartly is a multinational and diverse team of 750+ Smartlies from 60+ nationalities, working in 13 countries. Together, we want to create and maintain an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and heard. 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