DigitalOcean is looking for a Marketing Data Engineer to support Acquisition and Growth Marketing by providing clean, accessible, and actionable data. The goal is to build the pipelines, systems, and services that empower marketing and growth teams to scale their efforts across hundreds of thousands of customers.
Requirements
- You have strong experience with Python and SQL, understand the principles of data modeling and pipeline architecture, and can build robust services to enable data sharing across tools like Snowflake, Segment, and Jitsu.
- You’re comfortable interfacing with backend and frontend systems that require engineering-level access.
- Prior experience with Go, React, Node.js and Typescript/Javascript will be valuable in this role, and experience with Kafka and CI/CD is a bonus.
- You can work autonomously to extract critical metadata and customer data from services used across the company.
- You have hands-on experience with cloud data tools (e.g., Snowflake, Airflow, Segment) and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with dbt is a plus.
- You bring strong monitoring, documentation, and automation practices to your work.
Responsibilities
- You’ll manage the data infrastructure that powers our growth: You will design, build, and maintain the ETL pipelines that extract data from backend services, transform it into usable formats, and load it into Snowflake for analysis and decision-making.
- You’ll make customer data available in real-time: From building services that extract data from key systems like Marketo and Jitsu to ensuring clean ingestion into our CDP (Segment), you’ll be responsible for making customer behavior data actionable across marketing channels and dashboards.
- You’ll ensure data reliability and governance: You’ll develop and maintain frameworks for data validation, quality monitoring, and governance.
- You'll document systems, automate processes, and support incident response to maintain high data integrity and system uptime.
- You’ll work cross-functionally: Partnering with the Growth Engineering, Growth Marketing, Product, and Data Science teams to ensure data flows smoothly across systems and supports experimentation, measurement, and personalization at scale.
- You’ll be shipping code into our product and backend infrastructure to implement and operationalize your data goals!
Other
- Reporting to the Director of Growth Analytics and Operations, you will be a key technical contributor supporting Acquisition and Growth Marketing through clean, accessible, and actionable data.
- You can see the big picture while owning the technical details.
- You bring ideas to life through experimentation, and you understand how clean, reliable data unlocks better customer experiences and business growth.
- Familiarity with growth experimentation, product-led growth strategies, or digital marketing ecosystems is a plus.
- This is a remote role
